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Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:W. H. Auden

The idea of such an action, a pure assertion of self-autonomy, seemed to Augustine to be the central problem of ethics. One acts not on a motive of pleasure or ...
( Category: Poetry June 17,2020 )
Only Companion by Sam Hamill
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Hamill

Without beginning, utterly without end, the mind is born to struggles and distresses, and dies—and that is emptiness. Hajime naku owari mo naki ni waga kokoro umare shisuru mo ku ...
( Category: Asian June 16,2020 )
Six Plays by Luigi Pirandello
epub |eng | 2020-01-10 | Author:Luigi Pirandello

Act Three The throne room is dark. The back wall is just visible. The two portraits have been removed from their frames, and in their place stand FRIDA, in the ...
( Category: Playwriting June 16,2020 )
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:A. N. Wilson

Clearly, Pip speaks here with the voice of Dickens the journalist. There is nothing in the structure of the paragraph to suggest that Dickens distances himself, or his readers, in ...
( Category: European June 16,2020 )
David Foster Wallace by David Foster Wallace
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:David Foster Wallace [Wallace, David Foster]

14) What’s the one question you always wish interviews would ask? There really aren’t any. The problem with interviews (including even very considerate ones where you let me write answers ...
( Category: Essays June 16,2020 )
The Bhagavad Gita by Gavin Flood
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Gavin Flood

six months of the southern going, the yogi, with the moon’s light glowing, returns to earth to be reborn. ‘There are two paths, the light and dark, 26 both thought ...
( Category: Bhagavad Gita June 16,2020 )
Dynamic Form by Cara L. Lewis
epub |eng | 2020-03-26 | Author:Cara L. Lewis

In her view, watching a film is a process of watching for the moments when shapes emerge from a sea of “fragments,” from the roiling, bubbling “swarm and chaos.” This ...
( Category: Photography & Video June 15,2020 )
The Inhabited Island by Arkady Strugatsky
epub |eng | 2019-11-29 | Author:Arkady Strugatsky

DEFENSE COUNSEL: Are you aware of the extent to which the Unknown Fathers finance efforts to solve the problem of juvenile criminality? ACCUSED: I don’t entirely understand you. What is ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2020 )
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
epub |eng | 2020-04-13 | Author:Anton Chekhov & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

CHAPTER TWO / A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER But she did not think about anything and only wept. When soft, fluffy snow had completely covered Kashtanka’s back and head, and she had ...
( Category: Short Stories June 15,2020 )
Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | | Author:Vivian Gornick

The circle is composed of a group of self-styled intellectuals in their late twenties, early thirties, who, trapped by the Depression into occupational stasis, meet every Saturday evening in Laura’s ...
( Category: General Books & Reading June 15,2020 )
Dead Land (V.I. Warshawski Novels) by Sara Paretsky
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Sara Paretsky [Paretsky, Sara]

31 Everyone Joins the Chase Over dinner, I told Peter about finding Simon Lensky’s body, talking some of the horror of the murder out of my system. I told him, ...
( Category: Murder June 15,2020 )
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Uhlman

10 HOW WELL I understood (and still understand) my father. How could he, or anyone else in the twentieth century, have believed in the Devil and in Hell? Or in ...
( Category: Jewish June 15,2020 )
Proof of Murder by Lauren Elliott
epub |eng | 2020-02-20 | Author:Lauren Elliott [Elliott, Lauren]

Chapter 17 This was the second time in as many days that Marc had treated her like a child, sending her from the room for a time-out. Addie leaned forward ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling June 15,2020 )
Collected Poems: 1958-2015 by Clive James
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

The Carnival You can’t persuade the carnival to stay. Wish all you like, it has to go away. Don’t let the way it moves on get you down. If it ...
( Category: Renaissance June 15,2020 )
Thirteen Uncanny Stories by Hans Henny Jahnn
epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-12-30 | Author:Hans Henny Jahnn [Jahnn, Hans Henny]

9 THE MARMALADE EATERS (Written in 1928) from Perrudja In the novel this story is a chapter by itself whose purpose is clear only as the novel ends: it foreshadows ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2020 )

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