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The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Margaret Atwood

* * * — The other part of their training plan was the praying. Ada tried to teach me that. She was quite good at it, I thought. But I ...
( Category: Dystopian July 17,2020 )
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:Anonymous

‘Father,’ said Thorstein, ‘Don’t say anything now that you’ll live to regret later.’ ‘I’m not going to say as much as I’ve a mind to,’ said Thorarin. Thorstein got to ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
Plays and Fragments by Menander
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Menander

The Rape of the Locks1 [Perikeiromene] Introductory Note to The Rape of the Locks The date of the play is quite uncertain, and a good deal of it is lost. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 17,2020 )
Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God: Srimad Bhagavata Purana by Edwin F. Bryant
epub |eng | 2003-12-04 | Author:Edwin F. Bryant

CHAPTER 52 The Marriage of Rukmiṇī 1. Śriī Śuka said: ‘Blessed in this way by Kṛṣṇa, Mucukunda, the descendant of Ikṣvāku, circumambulated Kṛṣṇa, bowed to him and stepped from the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 17,2020 )
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Erik Larson

IN LONDON, a mosaic of information had by now accumulated in Blinker Hall’s intelligence division and in Room 40 that showed that only one submarine was in the waters off ...
( Category: Submarines July 17,2020 )
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians Prometheus Bound Seven Against Thebes the Suppliants by Aeschylus
epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Aeschylus

[By now the CHORUS are all seated close to the altar, on which they have laid some of their suppliant-branches. PELASGUS enters from the direction of the city, in a ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
The Collected Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Robert Frost

TO A YOUNG WRETCH (BOETHIAN) As gay for you to take your father's axe As take his gun—rod—to go hunting—fishing. You nick my spruce until its fiber cracks. It gives ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 17,2020 )
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Rachel Hollis

CHAPTER 10 The Lie: I SHOULD BE FURTHER ALONG BY NOW Last week I sat around with a group of women enjoying a glass of wine and a chat. The ...
( Category: Study Guides July 17,2020 )
Maguire, Gregory - Mirror, Mirror by Maguire Gregory
epub |eng | | Author:Maguire, Gregory

The dwarves STIRRING, AWAREof small pains. The chamber had a musty aspect, as of a catacomb or an ossuary. She couldn’t tell where the light originated. There were no apparent ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy July 17,2020 )
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Volume 2 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
epub |eng | 2016-07-20 | Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

HEPHAESTUS. Wherefore? wherefore? (A wind shakes the house.) I hear the rushing of a mighty wind Through all the halls and chambers of my house! Her parted lips inhale it, ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 17,2020 )
The Athenian Constitution (The Penguin classics) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Aristotle

P THE ATHLOTHETAE (Chapter 60) Having completed his survey of officials appointed annually by lot our author turns to officials of other kinds, in this chapter a board which was ...
( Category: Constitutions July 17,2020 )
De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Aristotle

Chapter Two Now in our investigation of the soul, if we are in doubt about those things of which we should gain clear knowledge as we proceed, it is necessary ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell

None of this makes sense. Alcohol is a powerful drug. It disinhibits. It breaks down the set of constraints that hold our behavior in check. That’s why it doesn’t seem ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions July 17,2020 )
Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
epub |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Pu Songling

66 MYNAH BIRD Wang Fenbin once told this story about a man in his native town who kept a mynah bird. The man taught it to speak, and they became ...
( Category: Chinese July 16,2020 )
America: Imagine a World Without Her by Dinesh D'Souza
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Dinesh D'Souza

CHAPTER 10 THE VIRTUE OF PROSPERITY There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently occupied than in getting money.1 SAMUEL JOHNSON, BOSWELL S LIFE OF JOHNSON ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 16,2020 )

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