Essays
epub |eng | 2010-05-23 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

The third poet closed his eyes and stretched his arm upwards, and said, “I touch them with my hand. I feel their wings, like the breath of a sleeping fairy, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Marina Keegan [Keegan, Marina]

Baggage Claim Kyle dry-swallowed two aspirin as he entered the warehouse. It reminded him of a Walmart, only larger and more fluorescent. Mellow music hovered over the chatter that only ...
( Category: Essays April 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 [Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963]

APPENDIX I TWO OTHER, LESS effective aids to visionary experience deserve mention – carbon dioxide and the stroboscopic lamp. A mixture (completely non-toxic) of seven parts of oxygen and three ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Marina Keegan [Keegan, Marina]

Baggage Claim Kyle dry-swallowed two aspirin as he entered the warehouse. It reminded him of a Walmart, only larger and more fluorescent. Mellow music hovered over the chatter that only ...
( Category: Essays April 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Paul Auster [Auster, Paul]

Eventually, the book was published, but that didn’t happen until four years later. In the meantime, all sorts of catastrophes occurred, one upheaval followed another, and the last thing on ...
( Category: Anthologies April 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Edward W. Said [Edward W. Said]

27 Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors pas un bout de ce monde qui ne porte mon empreinte digitale et mon calcanéum sur le dos des gratte-ciel et ma crasse dans ...
( Category: History & Theory April 17,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

This is typically gloomy and unyielding. Adorno the intellectual in exile heaping sarcasm on the idea that one’s own work can provide some satisfaction, an alternative type of living that ...
( Category: Essays April 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Charles Krauthammer [Charles Krauthammer]

ESSAY: ON THE ETHICS OF EMBRYONIC RESEARCH THE PROBLEM You were once a single cell. Every one of the 100 trillion cells in your body today is a direct descendant ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Handler, Chelsea [Handler, Chelsea]

My brother Greg Chapter Seven Black-on-Black Crime When I travel to New York, I hire a big, black, British driver named Sylvan. I call him Chocolate Chunk. At the end ...
( Category: Essays April 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

( Category: Gothic & Romantic April 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

ii In connection with what I have just said, a footnote on atrocities. I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish Civil War. I know that some ...
( Category: Essays April 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-13 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

Good Bad Books Not long ago a publisher commissioned me to write an introduction for a reprint of a novel by Leonard Merrick. This publishing house, it appears, is going ...
( Category: Essays April 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-23 | Author:George Orwell

Now, suppose that at this moment somebody started a left-wing paper deliberately aimed at boys of twelve or fourteen. I do not suggest that the whole of its contents would ...
( Category: Essays April 8,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Orhan Pamuk [Pamuk, Orhan]

It is impossible not to see a connection between the great advances in the art of the novel in the mid-nineteenth century—when it became the dominant literary form in Europe—and ...
( Category: General Books & Reading April 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

That night, Elmer prayed for a new husband for Ivy, a stout heart for Ethelbert, and a merciful death and paradise for himself on the morrow. “Amen,” said Elmer. “Maybe ...
( Category: Anthologies April 5,2014 )