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On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming
epub |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Laura Cumming

9 Icarus The first image my mother ever owned, as a new student heady with freedom and hard-won post office shillings, was Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. It ...
( Category: Adoption March 12,2020 )
Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction by Jessica Cox
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jessica Cox

[S]omething in its depth and beauty, in the blood-red liquid fire that seemed to fill it, fascinated me and held my attention […] the red glow at the heart of ...
( Category: Victorian March 12,2020 )
On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy by Averroës
epub |eng | | Author:Averroës

* * * Now, as to the verses which say that man can acquire deeds by free will, and that things are only possible and not necessary, the following may ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 12,2020 )
Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:W. H. Hudson [HUDSON, W. H.]

Chapter 12 TO FOLLOW IMPETUOUS, BIRD-LIKE RIMA IN HER DESCENT OF the hill would have been impossible, nor had I any desire to be a witness of old Nuflo’s discomfiture ...
( Category: Classics March 12,2020 )
Farm Legends by Will Carleton
epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Will Carleton [Carleton, Will]

How much we do not know; have bravely turned Our guns of eloquence on forest trees, And preached grave doctrines to the wayward breeze; When we have done all this, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 12,2020 )
The Posthuman Dada Guide by Codrescu Andrei
epub |eng | 2009-03-11 | Author:Codrescu, Andrei [Codrescu, Andrei]

Tristan Tzara cut up various texts onstage during Dada events in Paris, pulling words out of a hat and solemnly reading them, first to the outrage of the audience, then ...
( Category: Surrealism March 12,2020 )
A Study of Angels by Edward P. Myers
epub |eng | 1978-07-15 | Author:Edward P. Myers

LEAD SINNERS TO GOSPEL WORKERS Angels lead sinners to gospel workers. In Acts ten, an angel appeared to Cornelius and told him to send to Joppa for Peter. God worked ...
( Category: Bible Study March 12,2020 )
Language and Literature in a Glocal World by Sandhya Rao Mehta
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Sandhya Rao Mehta

John Key discursively constructs an oppositional discourse of old and new, through a chain of equivalence. The current flag is constructed as old, obsolete and dated, hence discursively constructing a ...
( Category: Modern March 12,2020 )
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature by Elizabeth Kantor
epub |eng | 2018-11-21 | Author:Elizabeth Kantor

Mary’s step-sister Jane (“Claire”) Clairmont, was also living with them. Claire’s own involvement with Shelley may explain why Mary complained, years later, that Claire had “poisoned my life when young.” ...
( Category: European March 12,2020 )
Astoria by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 1835-12-14 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

Chapter 29 RESUMING their course on the following morning, Mr. Hunt and his companions continued on westward through a rugged region of hills and rocks, but diversified in many places ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
The Orations, Volume 2 by Cicero
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

THE FIRST ORATION OF M T. CICERO AGAINST LUCIUS CATILINA. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE. THE ARGUMENT. Lucius Catiline, a man of noble extraction, and who had already been prætor, had ...
( Category: Medieval March 12,2020 )
The Office of Scarlet Letter by Bercovitch Sacvan
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Bercovitch, Sacvan

Chapter Three The Red Badge of Compromise “THE SCARLET LETTER had not done its office”: Hawthorne’s devious, multivalent directive has behind it the authority of all the cultural forces that ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
The Emperor of the Moon (Timeless Classics) by Aphra Behn
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Aphra Behn

Cin. Those, Madam, who are to assist us in carrying on a greater Intrigue, the gaining of you. They are our Kinsmen. Ela. Then they are doubly welcome. [Here is ...
( Category: European March 12,2020 )
The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose: Second Edition by T. S. Eliot
epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:T. S. Eliot [Eliot, T. S.]

THE LESSON OF BAUDELAIRE' WITH REGARD T O C E R T A I N intellectual activities across the Channel, which at the moment appear to take the place of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 12,2020 )
Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah) by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 1927-01-01 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

After the admission that Mme. Verdurin had made of the Principessa di Caprarola's intelligence, the second indication that the Verdurins were conscious of their future destiny was that (without, of ...
( Category: French March 12,2020 )

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