Essays
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche wants the eternity of this life with all its agonies —and seeing that it flees, its eternal recurrence. As it is expressed in sections 9, 10, and 11, the ...
( Category: Modern June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Berry, Wendell

IN SPITE OF the unrelenting destructiveness of the larger economy, the Amish—as Hostetler points out with acknowledged surprise and respect—have almost doubled in population in the last twenty years. The ...
( Category: Essays June 23,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-06-06 | Author:Julie Garwood

* * * Chapter Seven Contents - Prev | Next He never touched her. One second she was staring at his ugly expression and the next she was looking at ...
( Category: Essays June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-25 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

4. What Is a Novelist? To Understand, We Must Compare WHEN HERMANN BROCH WANTED TO BLOCK out a character, he first seized on the character’s essential position and then progressed ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft [Wollstonecraft, Mary]

SECTION 5.3. Such paternal solicitude pervades Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, that I enter on the task of criticism with affectionate respect; but as this little volume has many ...
( Category: History & Theory June 4,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Desiderius Erasmus

End of Project Gutenberg's The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRAISE OF FOLLY *** This file should be named 8efly10.txt or ...
( Category: Essays June 4,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:James Wood [Wood, James]

80 In fact, the ubiquitous flat character of the English novel, from Mr. Collins to Charles Ryder’s father, tells us something deep about the dialectic of British reticence and sociability, ...
( Category: Fiction June 1,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Orson Scott Card

7. In short… Breeding for size used to be important. People needed big, strong children to work the fields, fend off dangerous predators, and beat out the neighboring tribe for ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Noelle Hancock

Chapter Eleven The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear, for newer and richer experience. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ...
( Category: Women May 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:Gioia, Ted [Gioia, Ted]

MODERN JAZZ PIANO As it is commonly told, the history of jazz piano mirrors the evolution of the music as a whole. Earl Hines is said to have developed a ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 19,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category: British & Irish May 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

June 22 That was written on Saturday evening, it is now Sunday afternoon; I am to see Werfel and others, and have to meet my parents at the station at ...
( Category: Letters May 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-25 | Author:Plutarch

ON GOD’S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH [548A] [1] Once our Epicurus1 had finished speaking, Quietus,2 he [B] didn’t give anyone a chance to respond, but since we happened to be at ...
( Category: Essays May 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wally Lamb

My mother and I have the same hands. I stretch mine across the visiting room table and we touch fingertips. “My nails are all broken,” I say. “My nails are ...
( Category: Criminology May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Virginia Woolf

The employment, which was thus censured, was, as far as one can see, the harmless one of rambling about the fields and dreaming: My hand delights to trace unusual things, ...
( Category: Women Writers May 2,2014 )