Essays
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:V.S. Naipaul [Naipaul, V. S.]

TO THE west, on the road to Mississippi, were shabby small settlements, like an extension of the poverty of the town of Tuskegee. I spent the night on a timber ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L.]

The Boon of Culture From the American Mercury, Sept., 1931, pp. 36–48 EVERY American college president, it appears, is in duty bound to write and utter at least one book ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-13 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

MARK TWAIN–THE LICENSED JESTER (1943) Mark Twain has crashed the lofty gates of the Everyman library, but only with TOM SAWYER and HUCKLEBERRY FINN, already fairly well known under the ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]

It was as if I had been walking for hours before the tiled roofs of houses and the crest of a wooded hill gradually became defined. The Dunwich of the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Julian Barnes [Barnes, Julian]

THE MAN WHO SAVED OLD FRANCE IFIRST STARTED GOING to France almost fifty years ago, on motoring holidays with my parents and brother. The towns and villages we then visited ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-19 | Author:Barnes, Julian [Barnes, Julian]

THE MAN WHO SAVED OLD FRANCE IFIRST STARTED GOING to France almost fifty years ago, on motoring holidays with my parents and brother. The towns and villages we then visited ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

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: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM--1916 * * * We must start from the assumption that promises made by proclamation at the beginning of this war may ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cassandra Clare [Clare, Cassandra]

Case Study 4: The Outsiders (Kathleen Rowell, Based on the Novel by S. E. Hinton, 1983) The film The Outsiders, based on the book by the same name, is a ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Vanity Fair

‘There are going to be a hell of a lot of layoffs. Courses will be cut. Class sizes will get bigger,” conceded a Harvard insider, who, like every other administrator ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:David Shields [Shields, David]

5 THE WOUND AND THE BOW In which I make various self-destructive gestures, flirt none too successfully or seriously with suicide, pull back from the brink via the written word. ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:E.B. White [White, E.B.]

The Consolidated Edison Company says there are eight million people in the five boroughs of New York, and the company is in a position to know. Of these eight million, ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Notaro, Laurie [Notaro, Laurie]

How I Can Relive the Horror of High School for $103 I remember that it was a hot June night; the lights on the football field were searing and white, ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-28 | Author:Jo Ann Beard [Beard, Jo Ann]

“My pancakes have bonanas in them,” Linda tells me. She’s wearing shorts, a midriff top, and an Easter hat, pointing her fork at me. I’m sitting in the big-girl chair ...
( Category: Women Writers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1981-03-25 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

Helen is a hostess, Frank works at the mill, Janet teaches grade school And prob’ly always will, Bob works for the city, And Jack’s in lab research, And Peggy plays ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )