Essays
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:William Faulkner,James B. Meriwether [Faulkner, William]

[University of Virginia Magazine, Spring 1958; collected in Faulkner in the University, edited by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, University of Virginia Press, 1959. The text printed here ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-10 | Author:Lynne Tillman [Tillman, Lynne]

HM: A lot of people died in my life, in a very short time. Between 1980 and 1986 both my parents died, Georges Perec died, several other friends died. So ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 1997-02-10 | Author:Henry Rollins [Rollins, Henry]

August 21, Asbury Park, NJ: Did a photo shoot for some magazine and then went to the gig. Got there late and made sound check. Asbury Park is a hard ...
( Category: United States March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Terry Castle & Terry Castle

A man is looking for a lost key. Another man comes to help him look. They can’t find it. The other man says, where did you lose it? The first ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:E. B. White

Of course, the defenders of scientific progress claim that for every displaced victim of technology, there is a new job opening up—if not in the service industries, or in entertainment, ...
( Category: Essays March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-16 | Author:Helen Garner

Elizabeth Jolley’s War ‘IN THE MIDDLE of the journey of our life’, when we start to feel the weight of the crimes we are hauling behind us, we might turn ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Mohsin Hamid

POLITICS 8 The Usual Ally Divided We Fall After Sixty Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn? The Usual Ally I REMEMBER, as a boy in Lahore, the moment I learned Pakistan ...
( Category: General March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

New Algeria The only regime that, in the present state of affairs, would do justice to all parts of the population has long seemed to me to be a federation ...
( Category: French March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 1968-10-28 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

The Rains of New York New York rain is a rain of exile. Abundant, viscous and dense, it pours down tirelessly between the high cubes of cement into avenues plunged ...
( Category: Essays March 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1986-01-07 | Author:Francis Bacon [Bacon, Francis]

38. Of Nature in Men Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Force maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse maketh nature less importune;1 but custom ...
( Category: Essays March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 1971-03-15 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

He says ‘no’ and I say ‘no’. He says ‘yes’, and I say ‘yes’. In other words I have made it my duty to agree with him in everything.1 That ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 3,2015 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Hessler, Peter [Hessler, Peter]

40 KM/HR IS THE SAFEST 80 KM/HR IS DANGEROUS 100 KM/HR IS BOUND FOR THE HOSPITAL The road climbed steeply to the border of Qinghai Province. We passed slow-moving Liberation ...
( Category: General February 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |zh | 2010-11-04 | Author:Virginia Woolf

( Category: British & Irish February 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Isaac Asimov

1. “Robbie:” This is the first robot story I wrote. I turned it out between May 10 and May 22 of 1939, when I was nineteen years old and was ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-22 | Author:Flanagan, John [Flanagan, John]

21 ALYSS SWEPT TOWARD THE GRAY-GOWNED CASTLE LORD, ignoring Will. “Lord Orman,” she said, “it is so good of you to shelter me for these next few weeks!” She held ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic February 9,2015 )