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Chicago and the Making of American Modernism by Michelle E Moore
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michelle E Moore [Moore, Michelle E]

The bad business of patronage By late 1924, Hemingway had seen enough of the avant-garde writing business to understand that one couldn’t really go at it well without a patron. ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman by Burke Jessica & Larsen Kristine & Burdge Anthony
epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Burke, Jessica & Larsen, Kristine & Burdge, Anthony

Little evidence justifies Gardener’s claims linking old folk custom with witchcraft as a unified belief system. The OED links the term witch etymologically with the Old English term wicca, defining ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 17,2020 )
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2018-05-03 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Descriptions of Humanity (Physical) ¶ They rode through those five years in an open car with the sun on their foreheads and their hair flying. They waved to people they ...
( Category: Essays January 17,2020 )
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson
epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Tove Jansson [Tove Jansson]

Ham and I spent ten days: See Letters to Vivica Bandler, Unknown date in a snowstorm. 1950. Started writing the first Moomin story: The date of writing Småtrollen och den ...
( Category: Scandinavian January 17,2020 )
The Cat in the Treble Clef by Louis de Bernières
epub |eng | | Author:Louis de Bernières

IN HAMBLEDON CHURCHYARD, THE GRAVE OF LUCY PARKER I saw your stone and stood appalled, Here in the Surrey Hills, With heaven so close, it’s but a pace From where ...
( Category: Renaissance January 17,2020 )
The House of the Prophet by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | | Author:Louis Auchincloss

Roger Cutter (3) I HAD KNOWN Felix Leitner since my childhood, but it was at Seal Cove, Maine, in my twenty-second year that we first became friends. Seal Cove contained ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 17,2020 )
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by Jeremy Noel-Tod
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Jeremy Noel-Tod [Noel-Tod, Jeremy]

abglanz / reflected gleam from the field borders flows a dried-out baking quiet of thistledown and crumbs of soil. a grey velvet, which scratches on the throat and makes a ...
( Category: Anthologies January 17,2020 )
The Latin Deli by Judith Ortiz Cofer
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Judith Ortiz Cofer

III Corazón wished she could move everything out of the store that night. She did not think she could stay in this place without Manuel. When Tito, the super, Doña ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
J. R. R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter
epub |eng | 1982-01-16 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter [Carpenter, Humphrey]

Lewis and Tolkien continued to see much of each other. Tolkien read aloud to Lewis from The Silmarillion, and Lewis urged him to press on and finish writing it. Tolkien ...
( Category: European January 17,2020 )
Mythos (2019 Re-Issue) by Stephen Fry
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:Stephen Fry [Fry, Stephen]

THE WATER DRAGON For three days and three nights Cadmus, Harmonia, and their train of loyal Tyrians followed the heifer with the half-moon markings as it lumbered up and down ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology January 16,2020 )
The Measure of Our Lives by Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.” “Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves ...
( Category: United States January 16,2020 )
The Case of the Spellbound Child by Mercedes Lackey
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Mercedes Lackey

11 ELLIE had gotten all of the beds cleaned and restuffed with clean straw; she’d washed what passed for blankets, and everyone’s clothing, at least once. Odd, she had never ...
( Category: Victorian January 16,2020 )
American Poets in the 21st Century by Claudia Rankine
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Claudia Rankine [Rankine, Claudia]

“Unravel the Signal” How can we trace the currents in Hume’s “electrified mistakes”? Where do her wayward signals go? How are we to make the connections between words while recognizing ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 16,2020 )
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by Michael Cox
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]

'Certainly not, dearest,' I said soothingly. 'I wish I could solve the mystery,' he pursued, more excitedly; 'I would make somebody suffer for it! One's peace destroyed, and people terrified, ...
( Category: European January 16,2020 )
Virginia Woolf by Gillian Gill
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Gill

Convinced that Moore had provided them with a philosophical basis for their personal conduct, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes, as both Apostles and Angels, were influential in transforming the ...
( Category: Women January 16,2020 )

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