General Books & Reading
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nicholson Baker

7 Mean? Yes, he is mean. He seems at times to admire meanness — I’m thinking, for instance, of that puzzling sentence of his that always appears on Anne Tyler ...
( Category: Medieval March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-10 | Author:Keith K. Abbott

Richard never abandoned that vision. Although he was one of the funniest and most companionable friends I have ever known, he never was a happy man, and for good reasons. ...
( Category: Authors March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Harriet Rubin

Part III Purgatorio (1308-12) …e tanto d’uno in altro vaneggiai, che li occhi per vaghezza ricopersi, e ’l pensamento in sogno trasmutati. …E come questa imagine rompeo sé per sé ...
( Category: Medieval March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Denise E. Agosto

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Given the limitations of critical thinking as a solution to fake news and the fact that fake news ought not enjoy the same sorts of speech protections ...
( Category: General March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 1998-12-31 | Author:Nicholas A. Basbanes

To an historian libraries are food, shelter and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and ...
( Category: General March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Benjamin Wiker

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), It’s a Miserable Life (2008) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) is a truly great movie starring Jimmy Stewart, who plays a truly great American hero, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Daniel Mendelsohn

This is the conclusion to which many good biographies, to say nothing of some very good novels, also lead. “The poor thing that is himself ” is hardly the way ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-05 | Author:Robert Hass

In this case right relation to nature is, it would seem, an eye to beauty and an imagination open to the myth-world. HORACE 7.Horace published—I am a little hazy about ...
( Category: Poetry March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosenthal, Jesse;

A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT Suppose I tell you that I have a Victorian novel for you to read. I have not yet told you who wrote it or what it’s about. ...
( Category: Victorian March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Pettegree;Arthur der Weduwen;

CHAPTER ELEVEN Bookshop of the World IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS we have had the opportunity to marvel at the sheer number of books emerging from the print shops of the ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Abbott, Allyson R. [Abbott, Allyson R.]

Revealing the ending. Never, ever do that. Or spoil the book for future readers. Even if it’s romance and everyone knows a romance has a HEA (Happy Ever After) ending. ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Arnold Weinstein

UNFOLDING OUR PAST At the end of To the Lighthouse, Woolf’s great novel about life, death, memory, and art, Lily Briscoe, trying to re-create via her painting the lost Mrs. ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Daniel Moran

Chapter 5 Adaptation and Reputation John Huston’s Wise Blood In 1968 Robert Giroux wrote Robert Fitzgerald about a request he had received from the actor Tony Randall, who sought to ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:R. Andrew McDonald

Similarly, despite what may appear as the propensity of Manx dynasts to perpetrate violence against one another in the folios of the text (more below), we also see instances in ...
( Category: Medieval March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-01 | Author:Modleski, Tania

To be persecuted, as several analysts have observed, is better than being ignored. But surely to be loved and admired is better than being persecuted. Yet Gothics are never about ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic February 29,2020 )