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Cancer Ward: A Novel (FSG Classics) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
azw3 |eng | 1991-10-31 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr]

21. The Shadows Go Their Way Oleg was lucky enough to bump into her right in the doorway of the clinic. Moving to one side, he held the door open ...
( Category: Russian May 10,2020 )
Giving the Devil his Due by Michael Shermer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-04-08 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]

Figure 17.1 Michael Shermer speaking at Penn State University, Altoona. Photo credit: Marissa Carney, media and public relations coordinator at Penn State Altoona; reproduced courtesy of Penn State, Altoona. Figure ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions May 9,2020 )
Set Me On Fire by Ella Risbridger
epub |eng | 2019-11-09 | Author:Ella Risbridger [Risbridger, Ella]

ELIZABETH BISHOP The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every ...
( Category: Love Poems May 9,2020 )
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds by Levin Carole;Watkins John; & John Watkins
epub |eng | | Author:Levin, Carole;Watkins, John; & John Watkins

The Jews in Seventeenth-Century England We know there was a Jewish community in London at the time both The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice were first staged. ...
( Category: Renaissance May 9,2020 )
Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution by Ayers David;
epub |eng | | Author:Ayers, David;

Stella’s ‘defiance’, then, is a response to her origins, whether by birth or by culture. Stella’s approach to the question of women’s independence – or, more particularly, to her own ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 9,2020 )
Florence and Tuscany by Jones Ted;
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Jones, Ted;

4 Lucca The Romantic City A city overflowing with everything that makes for ease, for plenty, for beauty, for interest and for good example. (Henry James, Italian Hours) As the ...
( Category: European May 9,2020 )
Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism by James McElvenny
epub |eng | | Author:James McElvenny

Figure 3.2 Ogden’s panopticon Ogden 1932a: 183. Each of the concentric discs of Ogden’s panopticon contains all words of one part of speech, and by rotating them it is possible ...
( Category: Modernism May 9,2020 )
Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
epub |eng | 2012-05-27 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

{121} Discourse on Political Economy {122} Rousseau’s essay “Political Economy” was first published in the fifth volume of the Encyclopédie, which appeared in November 1755. It acquired the title by ...
( Category: Political May 9,2020 )
The Elizabethan World Picture by Jr. Myers
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Jr. Myers

(iii) The Elements Whether or not every educated Elizabethan had it well in his mind that the ether, according to Aristotle, had its native and eternal motion, which was circular, ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 9,2020 )
Get Out of Your Head by Allen Jennie
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Allen, Jennie [Allen, Jennie]

I’m afraid that everyone will abandon me. I choose to believe God has promised not to leave me, and He always keeps His promises. 12 I’m afraid of losing everything ...
( Category: Inspirational May 9,2020 )
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
epub |eng | | Author:John Carey

CHAPTER 23 Reform, Resolve and Religion: Victorian Women Poets ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, EMILY BRONTË, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) was a child prodigy. She began writing poetry at four, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 7,2020 )
Southern Cross Crime by Craig Sisterson
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Craig Sisterson

Back in Time – Historical Crime The conservative attitudes and still-relevant prejudices of post-war New Zealand are explored in JEN SHIEFF’s historical mysteries, which bring marginalised characters to the fore. ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective May 7,2020 )
Officer Clemmons by Dr. François S. Clemmons
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Dr. François S. Clemmons

I AGREED TO ANOTHER CONCERT FOR THE OBERLIN Alumni Club with Ron accompanying me, and the Beechwoods and Logans came to hear me sing. When it was over, the applause ...
( Category: Performing Arts May 6,2020 )
Dracula: The Shade And The Shadow by Elizabeth Miller
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Miller [Miller, Elizabeth]

Stoker’s Banana Skins Even the finest authors make mistakes, muddling the plot or being blinded by inconsistencies. Dracula is a fertile hunting ground for this type of endeavor. No disrespect ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 5,2020 )
Blindside (Michael Bennett) by James Patterson & James O. Born
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:James Patterson & James O. Born [Patterson, James]

Chapter 58 Christoph Visser and Ollie Van Netta were happy to be back in Amsterdam. Here the pot was better, they knew plenty of girls, and Christoph was able to ...
( Category: Murder May 5,2020 )

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