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The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:Charles Nicholl

In his deposition at the Court of Requests Wilkins gives his age as ‘36 years or thereabouts’, but in another deposition two years later he says he is about forty. ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-06 | Author:James Boswell

He said, ‘Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man.’ The disaster of General Burgoyne’s army was then the common topic of conversation. It ...
( Category: Research March 25,2014 )
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
mobi, epub, pdf | | | Author:Maya Angelou

The next morning my interior decorating met with stony disapproval. The old sofa was wrong for a man in my husband's position and the secondhand-store bedroom set definitely had to ...
( Category: African American Poetry March 25,2014 )
Proust in Love by William C. Carter
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-05-10 | Author:William C. Carter

CHAPTER EIGHT Grieving and Forgetting In the late fall of 1913 the relationship between Proust and Agostinelli finally reached the breaking point, but, not surprisingly, it was Agostinelli who made ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

The next day, I called Tante Zi and explained all that I’d learned about Marius’s return to Haiti. Tante Zi was aware of the funeral home cost, she said; she ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 25,2014 )
Charles Bukowski by Howard Sounes
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-18 | Author:Howard Sounes

until he was 23* and not very often until he was 50 I think I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
White heat: the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Brenda Wineapple

Sleeps the bravest of the brave? Is it he who sank to rest With his colors round his breast? Friendship makes his tomb a shrine; Garlands veil it; ask not ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Maya Angelou

CHAPTER 21 I took a job as swing-shift waitress in a day-and-night restaurant called the Chicken Shack. The record player blared the latest hits incessantly and the late-night clientele spent ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Education Of a Wandering Man (1990) by L'amour Louis
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]

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( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, and other American stories by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 1996-12-13 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Don't panic: Douglas Adams & The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Neil Gaiman
mobi, epub | | 1993-08-13 | Author:Neil Gaiman

Life, the Universe, and Everything ************************************************ ZAPHOD: There's nothing wrong with my sense of reality. I have it thoroughly serviced every fortnight. - Cut from radio script, Episode Three. ************************************************ ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
mobi, epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Witold Gombrowicz

X Friday, Santiago (Witold Gombrowicz, having arrived in Santiago, succumbed to a wave of belated eroticism, the same as before, years ago.… But this time the wave was strengthened by ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nina Sankovitch

Chapter 12 The Expansion of Experience Now that I had taken the pains to learn something about it, I had better ask if I really wanted to know. I did. ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1999-10-15 | Author:Frank McCourt

THE PLOT When the war started and food was rationed in Ireland the government offered poor families plots of land in fields outside Limerick. Each family could have a sixteenth ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )

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