Essays
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Twinkle Khanna [Khanna, Twinkle]

As I make a mental note to go everywhere with my hands perched on my midsection, I begin to wonder will I truly look wonderfully lean or will I be ...
( Category: Essays September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 1990-09-16 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

I can't make the comparison between a visual impression and my scribble on index cards, which I always see first when I think of my novels. The verbal part of ...
( Category: Essays August 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Wood

It is all here, in this beautiful passage: criticism as passionate creation (“as if for the first time”); criticism as modesty, as the mind putting the “understanding” into abeyance (“he ...
( Category: Essays August 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

Siegfried had not yet been in the trenches. I told him, in my old-soldier manner, that he would soon change his style. That night, the whole battalion went up to ...
( Category: World War I August 5,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-02 | Author:Jonathan Franzen [Franzen, Jonathan]

FIRST CITY Two things that happened this year got me wondering why American cities in general and New York City in particular still bother to exist. The first was a ...
( Category: Essays August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Musil, Robert [Musil, Robert]

It’s Lovely Here There are many people who on their vacations are drawn to famous places. They drink beer in their hotel gardens, and if in addition they happen to ...
( Category: European July 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Bryan Hutchinson & Multiple Contributors [Hutchinson, Bryan]

Just About the Worst Advice You Can Give a Writer By Bryan Hutchinson (Originally published on Goins Writer) “This too shall pass.” I’m sure you’ve heard this adage before. But ...
( Category: Essays July 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:John Jerome [Jerome, John]

CHAPTER 10 Junkies IN THE BEST JUNKYARD you will ever find, the office will also be the home of the owner. It will be located in one corner of the ...
( Category: Repair & Maintenance July 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah [Berlin, Isaiah]

1953–1955 ALL SOULS CLEARLY NOTHING WILL ever be the same again.1 IB flew home, arriving early on Sunday 13 December, and spent ‘two quite cheerful days’2 with his father in ...
( Category: Philosophers June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:John Dryden [Dryden, John]

Sir William Jones was an excellent lawyer, and, in his private character, an upright, worthy, and virtuous man; in his religion he had some tendency to nonconformity, and his political ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Said, Edward W. [SAID, EDWARD W.]

In their movement of regenerative rebellion, the Palestinians, like the Algerians and Black Panthers before them, show Genet a new language, not of orderly communication, but of astonishing lyricism, of ...
( Category: United States June 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Said, Edward W.,Rubin, Andrew.,Bayoumi, Moustafa.

9 Permission to Narrate (1984) [W]e’re here in Beirut as names for a different homeland, where meanings will find their words again in the midst of this sea and on ...
( Category: History & Theory June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1905-01-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Correlated Variation. I mean by this expression that the whole organisation is so tied together during its growth and development, that when slight variations in any one part occur, and ...
( Category: Essays June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-18 | Author:Herbert Spencer [Spencer, Herbert]

ON MANNERS AND FASHION WHOEVER has studied the physiognomy of political meetings, cannot fail to have remarked a connection between democratic opinions and peculiarities of costume. At a Chartist demonstration, ...
( Category: Essays June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-15 | Author:Joseph A. Altsheler [Altsheler, Joseph A.]

"I'm going to do so right away. Don't bother yourself about me, George. My nerves have been strained pretty hard, and I had to wait until they were quiet until ...
( Category: Military June 12,2015 )