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Highsmith, Patricia - Ripley Under Ground by Highsmith Patricia
epub |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

14 It was one of the worst lunches Tom had ever sat through, matching almost the lunch with Heloise and her parents after Heloise had told them they were already ...
( Category: Murder July 25,2020 )
A History of Venice by Norwich John Julius
epub |zho | 2003-07-02 | Author:Norwich, John Julius [Norwich, John Julius]

27 The Ferrara War and the Queen of Cyprus [1481–1488] You Venetians, it is certain, are very wrong to disturb the peace of other states rather than to rest content ...
( Category: Renaissance July 25,2020 )
Literature and Emotion by Patrick Colm Hogan
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Colm Hogan

Mirth Countless ordinary emotions make an appearance in our response to literature: fear, anger, jealousy, spite, indeed every emotion one can recall or imagine. Like aesthetic delight, however, mirth seems ...
( Category: Literary Criticism July 25,2020 )
Austen Years by Rachel Cohen
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Cohen

* * * Mansfield Park is a bit like Cinderella, and the two stepsisters are Fanny’s cousins Maria and Julia, who ridicule her and expect her to be of service ...
( Category: European July 25,2020 )
Highsmith, Patricia - Ripley's Game by Highsmith Patricia
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

‘You’re late,’ Simone said as he came in. She was in the living-room with Georges, picture books spread all over the sofa. ‘Customers,’ Jonathan said, and flung his mac on ...
( Category: Murder July 24,2020 )
Weird but Normal: Essays by Mia Mercado
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Mia Mercado [Mercado, Mia]

I’m a Guy’s Girl Oh, I didn’t see you there—I was too busy watching sports and shotgunning beers. I’m a pretty typical tomboy. Also, I’m pretty. It’s confusing, I know. ...
( Category: United States July 24,2020 )
Structural Anthropology by Levi-strauss Claude
epub |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Levi-strauss, Claude [Levi-strauss, Claude]

( Category: Customs & Traditions July 24,2020 )
Highsmith, Patricia - Ripley Under Water by Highsmith Patricia
epub |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

Chapter 13 Tom got a taxi, after several minutes’ effort, and asked the driver please to aim for Covent Garden, and gave Ed’s address. Seven twenty-two by Tom’s watch. His ...
( Category: Murder July 24,2020 )
On Reading by Proust Marcel
epub |eng | 2011-07-23 | Author:Proust, Marcel

Makeshift Memory I have here translated The Bible of Amiens, by John Ruskin, but this does not seem to be enough for the reader, in my view. To read only ...
( Category: General Books & Reading July 24,2020 )
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

It was not only in those tea-parties, on account of which I had formerly had the sorrow of seeing Gilberte leave me and go home earlier than usual, that I ...
( Category: Surrealism July 24,2020 )
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Marcel Proust

Scented with clover and artemisia Gripping their quick, narrow streams The country of the Aisne and of the Oise. ‘Look at the house in Zeeland, pink and shiny as a ...
( Category: Essays July 24,2020 )
Korean Slang: As Much as a Rat's Tail: Learn Korean Language and Culture through Slang, Invective and Euphemism by Peter Liptak & Siwoo Lee
epub |eng | 2016-12-16 | Author:Peter Liptak & Siwoo Lee [Liptak, Peter]

( Category: Humor July 24,2020 )
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Larry Tye

Alarm about the dynamic between the battle-scarred senator and the neophyte president also was spreading abroad. “In his attitude toward the G.P.U. Senator, courageous General Eisenhower appears to be downright ...
( Category: History & Theory July 24,2020 )
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Barbara Creed [Creed, Barbara]

THE MOTHER’S MUZZLE There is another incident which also supports the above interpretation. One of the most puzzling pieces of information in the Hans jigsaw is his constant reference to ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies July 23,2020 )
Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Isaac Babel [Isaac Babel]

Notes 1 Formed in November 1917 by Generals Mikhail Alexeyev (1857–1918) and Lavr Kornilov (1870–1918), the Volunteer Army was the first organized military force to challenge the Bolsheviks during the ...
( Category: Russian July 23,2020 )

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