Essays
epub |eng | 2002-04-04 | Author:Will Durant

CHAPTER FIVE The Ten “Peaks” of Human Progress INTHE YEAR 1794 a young French aristocrat by the magnificent name of Marquis Marie Jean de Condorcet was hiding from the guillotine ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Ira Wood

My wife is a writer of prodigious literary output but some day it will be discovered by an astute grad student connecting the dots in her archive that her production ...
( Category: Jewish April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:The New York Times

They’re Her Colors. We Just Wear Them. By AMANDA PRISCHAK | June 22, 2008 Essie Weingarten, founder and president of Essie Nail Polish based in Astoria, Queens. ESSIE WEINGARTEN IS ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:The American Society of Magazine Editors

Brittany couldn’t stop thinking about Sam, a reel that looped endlessly in her head. Sam dancing to one of their favorite metal bands, Drowning Pool. Sam dead in the tub ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Czeslaw Milosz [Milosz, Czeslaw]

On Thomas Mayne Reid In Chekhov's story "Boys," written in 1887, twelve-year old Volodia coming home for Christmas vacation brings with him his freckled schoolmate Chechevitzyn. The boys' behavior is ...
( Category: European April 1,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chuck Klosterman

If I was reading this book, the following thought might occur to me: I might wonder if publishing a sympathetic book about villains is the author’s way of actively placing ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Janet Malcolm

In 1984 a book with the quiet title Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815–1879 was published in England, and it almost crackled with the indignation of its author, an Oxford professor named ...
( Category: Authorship March 22,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Scalzi [Scalzi, John]

THE MEANING OF LIFE Today’s reader request, from Karl: I would like to know what you think about the question, “what is the meaning of life?” Is it a good ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Doris Grumbach

About the Author Doris Grumbach, author of many novels and memoirs including Fifty Days of Solitude, Life in a Day, The Ladies, and Chamber Music, has been literary editor of ...
( Category: Women March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-20 | Author:Jennifer OConnell

Kristin Harmel is the author of How to Sleep with a Movie Star and The Blonde Theory, both from Warner Books/5 Spot. She gave up years ago on trying to ...
( Category: Children's Literature March 21,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1990-05-15 | Author:Octavio Paz [Paz, Octavio]

Above, the innocent kingdom of animal copulation. A plain covered with sparse, sunscorched grass, strewn with flowers the size of trees and with trees the size of flowers, bounded in ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 16,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Octavio Paz [Paz, Octavio]

In the speech he wrote accepting the 1970 Nobel Prize, Solzhenitsyn spoke a few words which can summarize what Lukács meant by socialist realism, something quite distinct from those propaganda ...
( Category: United States March 16,2015 )
epub | | 2010-12-31 | Author:Octavio Paz [Paz, Octavio]

Photo of Duchamp and his wife, Teeny, at the foot of a waterfall extraordinarily like the one in the Assemblage, in 1965 near Figueras. The photograph was taken at Duchamp ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 16,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Octavio Paz [Paz, Octavio]

7 Agehananda Bharati, The Tantric Tradition (London, 1965). 8 See The Hevajra Tantra. Translation and critical study by D. L. Snell-grove (London, 1951). 9 Cf. The Hevajra Tantra and A. ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 16,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Octavio Paz

Forms of Atheism It is almost impossible to write about the death of God. It is not a suitable subject for a dissertation, even though for more than a half ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese March 16,2015 )