Essays
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]
He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers . . . The scaffold is a vision . . . It seems as though it were a being, ...
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European
February 22,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]
Even without checking this against the original Greek, the spirit of this analysis is clear. Pseudo-Longinus is performing textual semiotics. And he is performing an act of criticism—at least according ...
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Essays
February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Isaiah Berlin [Berlin, Isaiah]
Belinsky was not torn between incompatible ideals. He was an integrated personality in the sense that he believed in his own feelings, and was therefore free from the self-pity and ...
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Essays
February 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-27 | Author:Aaron Swartz
Toward a Larger Left http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/04/toward-a-larger-left/ August 4, 2009 Age 22 Stanford, like many universities, maintains full employment for humanities professors by requiring new students to take their seminars. My heart ...
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Diaries & Journals
February 15,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Pollitt, Katha [Pollitt, Katha]
Looking back, I can see that I became depressed. It wasn’t baby blues, or, as we now medicalize it, postpartum depression. It was loneliness. In the way that we prepare ...
( Category:
Feminist Theory
February 14,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
SIXTH WALK THERE are very few of our automatic reactions whose cause we cannot discover in our hearts, if we are really capable of looking for it. Yesterday, while walking ...
( Category:
French
February 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Simon Garfield
For all her preoccupation with longing and loss, the loss of Emily Dickinson’s own letters didn’t concern her unduly; the fact that a small percentage of mail wouldn’t make it ...
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Fiction
February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sandra M. Gilbert
Cara de Silva (1953–) A FOOD JOURNALIST, historian of gastronomy, and regular author of a travel column called “A Fork in the Road,” de Silva edited the poignant cookbook In ...
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Essays
February 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Laurie Lee [Lee, Laurie]
A Wake in Warsaw In the month of their worst weather – and the month also of their most melancholy historical memories – the Poles were paying tribute to Adam ...
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Essays
January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL Speaking of homes, I am building one now, and I venture to assert that very few homes have received more serious thought in the planning. Let me ...
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Specific Topics
January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]
AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891 It was at Nuremberg that we struck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bayreuth. It had ...
( Category:
Civil War
January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Eavan Boland
Charlotte Mew: An Introduction I Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869. Her family—middle-class, respectable, afflicted— lived at number 30 Doughty Street in the borough of Camden. I lived ...
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Essays
January 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Aaron Swartz [Swartz, Aaron]
Toward a Larger Left http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/04/toward-a-larger-left/ August 4, 2009 Age 22 Stanford, like many universities, maintains full employment for humanities professors by requiring new students to take their seminars. My heart ...
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Diaries & Journals
January 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Manea, Norman [Manea, Norman]
AN EXILE ON SEPTEMBER 11 AND AFTER That morning I was at Bard College, about one and a half hours from New York City. I was preparing my afternoon seminar, ...
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Essays
January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scottoline, Lisa [Scottoline, Lisa]
Color Me Mine I’m two months from getting the house painted, but I’m already fantasizing about paint colors. If the real estate classifieds are porn, paint chips are a kinky ...
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January 8,2016 )
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