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The White Tiger and Other Stories by Ruskin Bond
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

his head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. ‘The band! the speckled band!’ whispered Holmes. I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 14,2020 )
How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by James Wood
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:James Wood

85 If Macbeth’s story is one of publicized privacy, Raskolnikov’s story is one of scrutinized privacy. God still exists, but he is not watching Raskolnikov—at least, not until the end ...
( Category: General Books & Reading February 14,2020 )
The Recognition of Sakuntala (Oxford World's Classics) by Kalidasa
azw3 |eng | 2001-07-19 | Author:Kalidasa

SECOND BARD. The miscreant bows before your rod, (8) You arbitrate and give protection. Riches and power attract Spurious relations, Yet all your subjects, High or low, You treat as ...
( Category: Indian February 14,2020 )
A Life with Mary Shelley by Johnson Barbara
epub |eng | 2014-02-13 | Author:Johnson, Barbara [Johnson, Barbara]

CHAPTER FOUR Lord Byron Byron was a commercial success and a famous figure in English Romanticism. But his fame as the “Byronic hero” was more biographical than textual, more mythical ...
( Category: European February 14,2020 )
Reading Capital: The Complete Edition by Louis Althusser & Étienne Balibar & Roger Establet & Jacques Rancière & Pierre Macherey
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Louis Althusser & Étienne Balibar & Roger Establet & Jacques Rancière & Pierre Macherey

Engels then shows that Smith and Ricardo knew the origin of capitalist surplus-value. If they ‘did not distinguish surplus-value as such as a category on its own, distinct from the ...
( Category: History & Theory February 13,2020 )
The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Andrew Eames [EAMES, ANDREW]

HUBBLE-BUBBLE ON THE TOROS EKSPRESI In her 1928 journey Agatha Christie experienced a life-enhancing moment of great beauty on the descent of the Taurus Express from Konya to Adana. The ...
( Category: European February 13,2020 )
The American Classics by Denis Donoghue
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Denis Donoghue

2 If Walden and the other books constitute, as I suggest, Thoreau’s “song of myself,” we need to trace its coordinate terms, beginning with his god-term. Like Emerson, Thoreau tended ...
( Category: United States February 13,2020 )
Author in Chief by Craig Fehrman
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Craig Fehrman

In Baltimore, a man looked at a drugstore’s display of paperback books—each one priced at fifty cents. That made Senator Truman an upper middlebrow, and he enjoyed his era’s literary ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 12,2020 )
1774 by Mary Beth Norton
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Mary Beth Norton

CONTROVERSIES IN MARYLAND AND MASSACHUSETTS Although he did not mention it to Johnson, Duane had already been unnerved by actions of the Maryland Provincial Convention in early December. The convention ...
( Category: Instruction Methods February 12,2020 )
Fight House by Tevi Troy
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Tevi Troy

CHAPTER 8 GEORGE H. W. BUSH Darman and Sununu versus All Few presidents can compare to George H. W. Bush when it comes to resume and experience in government. Bush ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 12,2020 )
Things You Should Already Know About Dating, You F*cking Idiot by Ben Schwartz & Laura Moses
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Ben Schwartz & Laura Moses [Schwartz, Ben/Moses, Laura and Moses, Laura & Moses, Laura]

Guy: I’ll pay for it. 53. Always reciprocate oral unless it’s your birthday. Girl: If I go down, you go down. Guy: Like the Titanic? Girl: Exactly. And if we ...
( Category: United States February 11,2020 )
Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw
epub |eng | 2020-01-07 | Author:Barry Forshaw

Deviant Ways (2000) CHRIS MOONEY While Mooney’s persuasive and edgy thriller may recycle familiar elements from the overcrowded serial killer genre, it largely does so with imagination and invention. After ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective February 11,2020 )
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-08-10 | Author:Simon Goldhill [Goldhill, Simon]

His use of the word “simply” conceals a very complex legal and social set of problems, however (let alone his opportunistic homophobia). What acts will count with women? How will ...
( Category: European February 6,2020 )
The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility by Waqas Ahmed
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-02-10 | Author:Waqas Ahmed [Ahmed, Waqas]

General vs. Multiple Intelligences Human intelligence is multifaceted and multidimensional — it comes in many forms. — Ken Robinson Anna Maria van Schurman was exceptionally intelligent. A woman in a ...
( Category: Work Life Balance February 6,2020 )
The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett
epub |eng | | Author:Juda Bennett

Other people call it humor. It’s not sort of laughing away one’s troubles. . . . Laughter itself for Black people has nothing to do with what’s funny at all. ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 6,2020 )

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