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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Jane Smiley [Smiley, Jane]

2. Snorri Sturluson Egilssaga TRANS. BERNARD SCUDDER, IN THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS, ED. OBERT KELLOGG (1220-40; REPR., NEW YORK: PENGUIN, 2000), PP. 3-184. Egilssaga, the only saga for which we ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Sven Birkerts
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sven Birkerts [Birkerts, Sven]

I want to stay near this business of voice, the particular spanning of outer and inner that Bellow has fashioned to such a high art. For the voice was a ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
Music For Chameleons by Truman Capote
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Truman Capote [Capote, Truman]

TC: From what she told me, it seems the only explanation. JAKE: She doesn’t know what happened. She wasn’t there. She was sitting on her butt reading magazines. TC: Well, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
London fields by Martin Amis
epub, mobi | | 1991-02-14 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

Chapter 13: Little Did They Know s haped like A topheavy and lopsided stingray, elderly, oil-streaked, semi-transparent, and trailing its coil of feathery brown vapour, a dead cloud dropped out ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
The Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

* * * VISION I When I was a very young wife, I gave birth to a dead child, and came near to death myself. I recovered strength very slowly, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Sloane Crosley

AS TIME PASSED AND MORE OF OUR PEERS JOINED Zooey in the Active Uterus Club, I became less exempt from her wrath. Zooey’s prior embarrassment had been alleviated by the ...
( Category: Satire March 26,2014 )
Belle Weather by Rivenbark Celia
epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Rivenbark, Celia [Rivenbark, Celia]

17 Christmas at the “Urgent” Care If you plan to travel with children during the holidays, there’s about a one-zillion-percent chance that you’ll spend at least some part of “the ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:David Sedaris [Sedaris, David]

Christmas Means Giving For the first twelve years of our marriage Beth and I happily set the neighborhood standard for comfort and luxury. It was an established fact that we ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Fraud: Essays by David Rakoff
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-28 | Author:David Rakoff [Rakoff, David]

I had arrived here thinking of that oft told urban myth of the man who, newly diagnosed with cancer, checks himself into a hotel room for the weekend with videotapes ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Exit Laughing by Victoria Zackheim
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Victoria Zackheim [Zackheim, Victoria]

A couple of weeks later, I got a call from Bob. “Can you come by this week? There’s something that Decca wanted you to have.” We made a date, and ...
( Category: Love & Loss March 26,2014 )
Pure Drivel by Steve Martin
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Steve Martin [Martin, Steve]

Side Effects Dosage: Take two tablets every six hours for joint pain. Side Effects: This drug may cause joint pain, nausea, headache, or shortness of breath. You may also experience ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | 2001-01-31 | Author:Rabindranath Tagore [Tagore, Rabindranath]

THE BABUS OF NAYANJORE I Once upon a time the Babus of Nayanjore were famous landholders. They were noted for their princely extravagance. They would tear off the rough border ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Michel de Montaigne [Montaigne, Michel de]

( Category: Humanism March 26,2014 )
Winter by Adam Gopnik
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1819 Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), winter scenes recall ancient ones — snow opens the door unto a lost, mystical, medieval ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
epub, azw3 |eng | 1937-03-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

PART TWO 8 The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear. In the earlier chapters of this book ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )

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