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The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Honoré de Balzac

( Category: Satire March 11,2020 )
Peirce on Signs by Hoopes James; Hoopes James ;
epub |eng | 1991-03-10 | Author:Hoopes, James; Hoopes, James ;

Notes 1. Died 1308. 2. The entia non sunt multiplicanda prœter necessitatem [“entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity”] is the argument of Durand de St. Pourçain. But any ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 11,2020 )
Am I Overthinking This? by Michelle Rial
epub |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:Michelle Rial [Rial Michelle]

Is my haircut awful? How much do I tip for this? Does everywhere in L.A. take twenty minutes? Why am I always late? Why don’t I bike more often? What’s ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
Caribbean Critique by Nesbitt Nick;
epub |eng | | Author:Nesbitt, Nick;

CHAPTER SEVEN The Baron de Vastey and the Contradictions of Scribal Critique As scholars, including Laurent Dubois and myself, have argued, it was revolutionary Saint-Domingue that remained faithful to the ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 11,2020 )
9781785438967 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

SCENE VIII [To them MRS FORESIGHT and MRS FRAIL. MRS FORESIGHT They have quarrelled, just as we could wish. BEN LEGEND Tar-barrel? Let your sweetheart there call me so, if ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2020 )
Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Kenneth Kalu & Toyin Falola
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth Kalu & Toyin Falola

Oxherding Tale Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale23 is a neo-slave narrative set in the antebellum South, on Jonathan Polkinghorne’s plantation called Cripplegate, and details the adventures of Andrew Hawkins, born of ...
( Category: Regional & Cultural March 11,2020 )
The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935 by Sascha Bru
epub |eng | | Author:Sascha Bru

Figure 51 Cover of the brochure for the 1937 Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition showing Otto Freundlich’s sculpture Der neue Mensch (The New Man, 1912). Freundlich’s work recalls ‘primitive’ Easter ...
( Category: European March 11,2020 )
Walter Scott: His Life and Personality by Hesketh Pearson
epub |eng | | Author:Hesketh Pearson

CHAPTER XIV AT CONUNDRUM CASTLE ‘Whenever a Scotsman gets his head above water, he immediately turns it to land,’ remarked Scott, though in his case it would be more apposite ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 11,2020 )
The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Michael Malay
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Malay

The concept is imaginatively resonant: Weber’s cage symbolises, in a single image, something of the lived experience of modern capitalism—an ‘irresistible’ system that binds individuals to a particular mode of ...
( Category: Modern March 11,2020 )
9781785438240 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2016-06-03 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

"Well, what is all this about?" "All about them notes, nothing else," replied Chancey, calmly. "Go on―what of them?" urged Ashwoode. "Can you pay them all to-morrow morning?" inquired Chancey, ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2020 )
Tablet & Pen by Reza Aslan
epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Reza Aslan

Pakize, who smelled like fur, cats, like fine muslin and handkerchiefs…he would never be able to put his head on her knees. Hey! Who had put this spike in his ...
( Category: Anthologies March 11,2020 )
9781787376199 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2018-01-04 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

ÆCIUS Ye are neither; And durst another tell me so, he dyed for't, For thus far on mine honour, I'le assure you No man more lov'd than you, and for ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2020 )
The Mysterious World of Sherlock Holmes by Bruce Wexler
epub |eng | 2020-01-08 | Author:Bruce Wexler

In 1813, Mathiau Bonaventure Orfila was the first pathologist to use a microscope to examine blood and semen at crime scenes. In 1835, Henry Goddard (one of Scotland Yard’s original ...
( Category: European March 11,2020 )
Mark Twain: A Biography: Volume 1: 1835 - 1885 by Albert Bigelow Paine
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Albert Bigelow Paine [Paine, Albert Bigelow]

The work so promptly begun made little progress. Hard days of illness and sorrow followed, and it was not until September that it was really under way. His natural enthusiasm ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 11,2020 )
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger
epub |eng | 2016-09-20 | Author:Eliot Weinberger

POSTSCRIPT After the publication of this essay, along with Paz’s afterword, in the Mexican magazine Vuelta, the editors received a furious letter from a professor at the Colegio de México, ...
( Category: Chinese March 11,2020 )

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