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The Dramatic Writer's Companion by Will Dunne
epub |eng | 2010-01-26 | Author:Will Dunne [Dunne, Will]

Focus first on the main character of the scene-for example, Katurian-and answer these questions to help you explore his or her emotional life in the scene: I. Primary emotion. Characters ...
( Category: Playwriting February 16,2020 )
The Masnavi, Book Four by Jalal al-Din Rumi
epub |eng | 2017-09-01 | Author:Jalal al-Din Rumi [Rumi, Jalal al-Din]

The young man becomes agitated because no reply comes from the king to his letter. This desert has no top or bottom either. That young man found he didn’t get ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 16,2020 )
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Carson Anne
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Carson, Anne

Letters, Letters ‘Letters’ (grammata) can mean ‘letters of the alphabet’ and also ‘epistles’ in Greek as in English. Novels contain letters of both kinds, and offer two different perspectives on ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 16,2020 )
The Saga of the Volsungs by Jackson Crawford
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jackson Crawford [Crawford, Jackson]

Chapter 1. Concerning Heimir and Áslaug Now the news came to Heimir in Hlymdalir that Sigurð and Brynhild were dead. Their daughter Áslaug, who was Heimir’s foster-daughter, was three years ...
( Category: European February 16,2020 )
Traditional Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Haruo Shirane [Shirane, Haruo]

SAIGYŌ Satō Norikiyo, now known as Saigyō (1118–1190), was the son of a wealthy family of hereditary warrior aristocrats. At the age of fifteen, he entered the service of the ...
( Category: Asian February 16,2020 )
Thistles and Thieves by Molly Macrae
epub |eng | 2019-10-27 | Author:Molly Macrae

Christine came by in her parents’ Vauxhall just before dawn the next morning. She knocked softly on the front door with the wolf’s head. Janet had found the knocker in ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling February 16,2020 )
Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Tara Prescott & Aaron Drucker
epub |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Tara Prescott & Aaron Drucker [Prescott, Tara & Drucker, Aaron]

The kitsune’s heroism is clear. But what about the monk? On a psychoanalytical level, Campbell’s notion of heroism could be tied up with Jung’s concept of individuation, which is essential ...
( Category: History & Price Guides February 16,2020 )
The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler;
epub |eng | | Author:Judith Butler;

Law’s Violence: Benjamin, Cover, Balibar We may conclude that a stronger and more just sense of law should be brought to bear on such instances. The notion, however, that conflicts ...
( Category: History & Theory February 16,2020 )
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston

Sweat It was eleven o’clock of a Spring night in Florida. It was Sunday. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in bed for two hours at this time. ...
( Category: African February 16,2020 )
Venus In Furs by Sacher-Masoch Leopold Von
epub |eng | 2013-02-24 | Author:Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von [Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von]

9 I leap out whenever the train stops, run to her carriage and await her commands with doffed cap. Now she wants a coffee, now a glass of water, then ...
( Category: German February 16,2020 )
The Heart of a Stranger by Andre Naffis-Sahely
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely [André Naffis-Sahely]

TIN MOE Meeting with the Buddha Not for anything in particular — even me the very Buddha along with other antiques they’ve put up for sale here in Europe, they ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology February 16,2020 )
From Here to Eternity (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Jones
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:James Jones

30 It was while they were at Hickam Field on this problem that they wrote the Re-enlistment Blues. It was to be the original, the real, the one and only, ...
( Category: Military February 16,2020 )
The Marquise of O– by Heinrich von Kleist
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist [Heinrich Von Kleist]

Before she could read even halfway through this unprecedented piece the Colonel’s wife was speechless. She glanced fleetingly at the end and gave the sheet back to the Commandant. He ...
( Category: German February 16,2020 )
Zami by Audre Lorde
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Audre Lorde

We left the car and climbed to the top of the hill. The air was chill as we sat on the stumps to catch our breaths. ‘Cold?’ ‘No,’ I said, ...
( Category: LGBT February 16,2020 )
A History of Disease in Ancient Times by Norrie Philip
epub |eng | | Author:Norrie, Philip

Diseases that may have Caused the End of the Bronze Age and the End of the Hittite Empire What Are the Most Likely Diseases That Could Have Helped End the ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 16,2020 )

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