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epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]
* “On Learning Russian,” The Wellesley Magazine, April 1945, 191–92. A note heads the article: “The College offers this year, for the first time, a six hour course in elementary ...
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June 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-28 | Author:Tom Trautmann [Trautmann, Thomas R.]
The quality (and probably quantity as well) of elephants declines from east to west, the best coming from Orissa (Kalinga), the poorest from Punjab (Pancanada)—where they are no longer found. ...
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June 7,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-25 | Author:Ayn Rand & Peter Schwartz
(July-August 1971) THE POLITICS The Left: Old and New If you happened to see Sign of the Pagan, a very bad movie recently shown on television, dealing with Attila’s invasion ...
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History & Theory
June 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Kavita Krishnan [Krishnan, Kavita]
A poster from the early-twentieth-century workers’ struggle in the US for the eight-hour day declared that the twenty-four-hour day must be divided into three parts: eight hours each for work, ...
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Essays
June 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:John Gierach
13. RUNOFF I grew up among sensible midwestern lake fishermen who didn’t much care for rivers and streams. Moving water was too unruly, forever arriving and departing like time itself ...
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Fish & Sharks
June 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Kay Ryan [Ryan, Kay]
The Poems of Marianne Moore, ed. Grace Schulman (Viking, 2003) Fidget and Gnash “The handkerchiefs almost frighten us by their perfection.” Who but Marianne Moore could possibly have written this? ...
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May 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-12 | Author:Erica Heller
Kaylie Jones is the author of five novels, including A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, adapted as a Merchant-Ivory film. Her memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, was published by ...
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Artists, Architects & Photographers
May 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-08 | Author:Wayne Koestenbaum
(2015) “MY” MASCULINITY REMIX 1. In 1994, I wrote a short essay called “‘My’ Masculinity.” Twenty-two years later, I revoke my earlier version and start the composition all over again. ...
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Essays
May 16,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:William Zinsser
Central Park Lite Experiential optimization in the app brigade Central Park and I go back almost as far as a man and a park can go. In the early 1930s, ...
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United States
May 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Helen Elliott
Judith Brett My Grandmother’s House I became a grandmother last year, at sixty-nine, to a lively girl born to my youngest daughter. My grandmother was forty-eight when I was born ...
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Essays
May 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Karel Capek [Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová]
About Birdsong The People’s Paper, 9 June 1929 Various commonplace ideas about birdsong are pervasive: that birdsong is delectable, for instance. Conversely I heard the other day a lady, who ...
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Essays
May 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Robert Burton
Nothing comes in so thick, Nothing goes out so thin, It must needs follow then The dregs are left within. As that old poet scoffed, calling it Stygiæ monstrum conforme ...
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Modern
May 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Jairam Ramesh [Ramesh, Jairam]
Rajaji was then India’s home minister, having succeeded Sardar Patel. He would indeed retire from active public life in November 1951 but that retirement was to last just five months ...
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Leadership
April 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]
LECTURE V. THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. [May 19, 1840.] Hero-Gods, Prophets, Poets, Priests are forms of Heroism that belong to the old ages, make their ...
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Essays
April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Victoria Zackheim [Zackheim, Victoria]
I DON’T KNOW THIS WORD – Rachel Howzell Hall – I WAS THREE YEARS INTO MY THIRTIES, AND I KNEW LOTS of words. Elysian. Lollygag. Bloviate. Catawampus. But then I ...
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April 24,2020 )
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