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Homer: A Very Short Introduction by Barbara Graziosi
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Barbara Graziosi

Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 30,2019 )
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson & Irving Howe
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Sherwood Anderson & Irving Howe [Anderson, Sherwood & Howe, Irving]

Wash Williams and George Willard arose from the pile of railroad ties and walked along the tracks toward town. The operator finished his tale quickly, breathlessly. “Her mother sent for ...
( Category: Short Stories December 30,2019 )
Angels and Insects by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

In the early days of that Autumn, as the activity in the nest died down, the book was brought to its end, and the pages, William’s science, William’s brooding, Miss ...
( Category: Victorian December 25,2019 )
Sugar and Other Stories by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

ON THE DAY THAT E. M. FORSTER DIED This is a story about writing. It is a story about a writer who believed, among other things, that time for writing ...
( Category: Short Stories December 25,2019 )
The Matisse Stories by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1991-12-12 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

Shona McRury has topaz eyes and long, silky brown hair, like a huge ribbon, caught up at the back with a tortoiseshell comb. She wears topaz ear-rings, little spheres on ...
( Category: Surrealism December 25,2019 )
The Doomed City by Arkadi Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky
epub |eng | 1971-12-31 | Author:Arkadi Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky [Strugatsky, Arkadi & Strugatsky, Boris]

3 The offices were empty. The staff had obviously fled when the shooting started up around City Hall. Andrei walked through the rooms, indifferently surveying the scattered sheets of paper ...
( Category: Dystopian December 23,2019 )
Eugene O'Neill by Robert M. Dowling
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Dowling

Still, Boulton recognized that her compulsive husband had neither the time nor the emotional wherewithal for extramarital affairs—not of a sexual nature, she felt certain, at least not yet.160 “Dirty ...
( Category: Drama December 21,2019 )
The Ship of Dreams by Gareth Russell
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Gareth Russell

I. The davits could have accommodated a second vertical row of lifeboats, which was added to the Olympic after the Titanic’s sinking. Prior to the disaster, it was felt too ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy December 20,2019 )
The Club by Leo Damrosch
epub |eng | | Author:Leo Damrosch

68. Boswell letter to Johnson Just why that should have been so is not always obvious from the documentary record, but life is much more than documents. Boswell’s whimsical humorousness, ...
( Category: European December 20,2019 )
The Epic of Gesar of Ling by Robin Kornman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robin Kornman [Kornman, Robin]

It’s Ala Ala Ala. Thala is the melody of the song. This land is called Be’u-tag Dzong [Tiger Gem Fortress]. If you want to know who I am, I am ...
( Category: Asian December 17,2019 )
The Reading Life by C. S. Lewis
epub |eng | 2019-08-25 | Author:C. S. Lewis

How to Murder Words Studies in Worlds (from the Introduction) VERBICIDE, THE MURDER OF A WORD, HAPPENS IN many ways. Inflation is one of the commonest; those who taught us ...
( Category: Religion December 17,2019 )
H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study (Classics of Lovecraft Criticism Book 1) by Donald R. Burleson
epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:Donald R. Burleson [Burleson, Donald R.]

112 the spot “into which all the ghouls of the waking world cast the refuse of their feastings.” Carter forms an alliance with the ghouls of the dream realm, one ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural December 17,2019 )
The Getaway Car by Donald E Westlake
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald E]

SIX LUNCH BREAK May’s Famous Tuna Casserole This recipe was Westlake’s contribution to a 1999 collection of recipes by mystery writers, A Taste of Murder. The University of Chicago Press ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective December 17,2019 )
Religious Revival and Secularism in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan by Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach

The questions I find fascinating in studying contemporary Islam are its internal heterogeneity, flexibility and dynamics. Like in other world religions, Islamic scriptures allow for multiple interpretations. The religious revival ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 17,2019 )
Twenty-one Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Dicks

MARCH 7 2:45 PM Things I’m loving Chipotle burritos Kottke.org Lyle Lovett Pandora station My wife in a T-shirt and underwear Cold water from a metallic water bottle Carhartt socks ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling December 17,2019 )

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