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Boccaccio the Philosopher by Filippo Andrei
epub |eng | | Author:Filippo Andrei

(The theme of death is here anticipated with the deception conceived by Ambrogiuolo : a chest symbolically foreshadows his death.) But when Zinevra manages to escape from the death that ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 14,2020 )
The Civil Wars by Appian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Appian

BOOK IV 1. In this way two of Caesar’s murderers, Trebonius in Asia and Decimus in Gaul, met their deserts when they were attacked and defeated in their own provinces. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 14,2020 )
Surprise by Miller Christopher R.;
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Miller, Christopher R.;

Chapter 6 Northanger Abbey and Gothic Perception Austen’s Aesthetics and Ethics of Surprise “Surprizes,” George Knightley curtly declares in Jane Austen’s Emma (1815), “are foolish things.”1 He is referring to ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 14,2020 )
The Nostalgic Imagination by Collini Stefan;
epub |eng | 2018-09-25 | Author:Collini, Stefan; [Collini, Stefan]

5 The History of ‘the Reading Public’ I The charged topic of ‘the reading public’ appears to be ineliminably historical. Generalizations about this reified entity almost always have assumptions about ...
( Category: Modern April 14,2020 )
9781787807020 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

Once more farewell! LETTER XI I left Portoer, the little haven I mentioned, soon after I finished my last letter. The sea was rough, and I perceived that our pilot ...
( Category: Relationships April 14,2020 )
The Prince of Minor Writers by Max Beerbohm
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European April 14,2020 )
New to Big by David Kidder & Christina Wallace
epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:David Kidder & Christina Wallace [Kidder, David & Wallace, Christina]

2. PAINKILLERS, NOT VITAMINS Successful solutions solve a problem that is big, painful, and persistent: a repeated behavior or constant need that customers wrestle with on an ongoing basis. And ...
( Category: Venture Capital April 14,2020 )
The Stones of Venice II by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

§ LXXIII. The fifth element above named was Rigidity ; and this character I must endeavor carefully to define, for neither the word I have used, nor any other that ...
( Category: European April 14,2020 )
Groupthink by Christopher Booker
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Booker

5 The ‘Fantasy Cycle’ and the ‘Swinging Sixties’ For each age is a dream that is dying or one that is coming to birth. A. W. E. O’Shaugnessy (1844–81) In ...
( Category: Politics April 14,2020 )
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Rivers Isabel;
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Rivers, Isabel;

GOOD WORKS 14 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the ...
( Category: Renaissance April 14,2020 )
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture) by Jeffrey M. Hunt & R. Alden Smith & Fabio Stok
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:Jeffrey M. Hunt & R. Alden Smith & Fabio Stok [Hunt, Jeffrey M.]

FIGURE 4.5. Piero della Francesca, portrait of the duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro (1490–1492). Tempera on panel. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. Previously existing universities, which long remained strongholds of Aristotelian ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 14,2020 )
Helen with the High Hand (Timeless Classics) by Arnold Bennett
epub |eng | 2016-06-16 | Author:Arnold Bennett

“Then something is the matter?” “If you want to know,” said Helen, with haughtiness, “in the hall, just now—that is—I—I overheard Mr. Dean say something about Emanuel Prockter’s singing which ...
( Category: Drama April 14,2020 )
Better with Books by Melissa Hart
epub |eng | 2019-04-23 | Author:Melissa Hart [Hart, Melissa]

THE FALL OF INNOCENCE by Jenny Torres Sanchez (Philomel Books, 2018). Sixteen-year-old Emilia DeJesus stifles the memory of being attacked behind her elementary school, and she tries to forget the ...
( Category: Children's Literature April 14,2020 )
Viy by Nokolai Gogol
epub |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Nokolai Gogol

Ghost Stories Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens ISBN: 9781909438064 Paper Back ISBN: 9781909438071 E-book David Copperfield, the personal history, adventures, experience and observation which he never meant to publish on ...
( Category: Russian April 14,2020 )
The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature by Ulrika Maude Mark Nixon
epub |eng | | Author:Ulrika Maude,Mark Nixon

16 Modernism, Psychoanalysis and Other Psychologies Laura Salisbury ‘[C]himney-sweeping’. This was Fräulein Anna O’s joking description of the new treatment for hysterical symptoms she was undergoing in the 1880s with ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 13,2020 )

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