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The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
epub |eng | 2019-03-16 | Author:Georges Lefebvre

The Economic Crisis As always in the old France, food shortage was due to a succession of mediocre or clearly inadequate crops. The French of that time ate a great ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 17,2020 )
What is Translation History? by Andrea Rizzi & Birgit Lang & Anthony Pym
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Rizzi & Birgit Lang & Anthony Pym

A Universal Testing Ground? An alternative solution to the observer’s paradox is to insist that, no matter where observations come from, they can then be tested repeatedly in many different ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2020 )
9781787372566 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2017-04-27 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

LADY ELLA We're so awfully grateful to you. It was splendid. MAUD Quite. THE RECTOR [Rather holding himself together] Heroic! I was just myself about to— THE SQUIRE [Restraining EDWARD ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2020 )
Mobilities, Literature, Culture by Marian Aguiar & Charlotte Mathieson & Lynne Pearce
epub |eng | | Author:Marian Aguiar & Charlotte Mathieson & Lynne Pearce

With the iterative way of telling of his pastoral life-style, Werther’s rhythm is not only slowed down but also affords a sense of timelessness. Hence, von Petersdorff (2006, 76) argues ...
( Category: Modern March 17,2020 )
Dynamic Dames by Sloan De Forest
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Sloan De Forest

“I should like to make one thing quite clear.… I never explain anything.” —“MARY POPPINS” Nobody messes with Poppins. Much like Travers, she’s a prickly perfectionist and something of a ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 17,2020 )
9781787802667 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

Maria Alexandrovna's voice was tender to a sickly extent. Her face showed the pain she was suffering. The amazed Mosgliakoff sat down beside her in the arm-chair. “You hid somewhere, ...
( Category: Americas March 17,2020 )
Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul by Jack Canfield Mark Victor Hansen
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen

Message in a Mug Y ou have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. Brian Tracy My cries must have ...
( Category: Single Parents March 17,2020 )
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by J. Gerald Kennedy
epub |eng | 1994-03-16 | Author:J. Gerald Kennedy

CHAPTER XX THE chief was as good as his word, and we were soon plentifully supplied with fresh provision. We found the tortoises as fine as we had ever seen, ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
Georgics by Virgil
epub |eng | 2008-10-05 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

Georgic IV Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now Take up the tale. Upon this theme no less Look thou, Maecenas, with indulgent eye. A marvellous display of puny ...
( Category: Medieval March 17,2020 )
The Works by Henry Fielding
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Henry Fielding [Fielding, Henry]

THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON. DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC. YOUR candour is desired on the perusal of the following sheets, as they are the product of a genius ...
( Category: Renaissance March 17,2020 )
Traces Remain by Charles Nicholl
epub |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Charles Nicholl [Nicholl, Charles]

And here is a literary joke: ‘If Petrarch was so madly in love with bay leaves, it’s because they taste so good with sausage and thrush,’ punning on lauro, the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 17,2020 )
Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real by Arka Chattopadhyay
epub |eng | | Author:Arka Chattopadhyay

FIGURE 3.2 Schema of alienation (from Seminar XI: 211) The materiality of word thus never stops insisting on death. Insofar as the subject enjoys this materiality and is enjoyed by ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 17,2020 )
A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway by Wagner-Martin Linda;
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Wagner-Martin, Linda;

Grace Hall-Hemingway Hemingway viewed his mother’s independence, activism, and successes as evidence of her desire to dominate and emasculate, and he spent a lifetime not working out the conflict between ...
( Category: United States March 17,2020 )
Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold.24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero.25 For our ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 17,2020 )
A Historical Guide to Mark Twain by Fishkin Shelley Fisher;
epub |eng | 2002-03-16 | Author:Fishkin, Shelley Fisher;

NOTES For an extended discussion of the issues raised in this chapter, see the following books and articles by the author from which some of the material in this chapter ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 17,2020 )

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