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A Sleep and a Forgetting by William Dean Howells
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:William Dean Howells [Howells, William Dean]

VI The caprice of a climate which vaunted itself perpetual summer was a godsend to all the strangers strong enough to bear it without suffering. For the sick an indoor ...
( Category: Surrealism November 20,2019 )
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine Pizan
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Christine Pizan [Pizan, Christine]

30. Christine talks about all the good that women have brought into the world, both now and in the past. ‘My lady, though I can see that women have brought ...
( Category: French November 20,2019 )
The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Lee M Hollander
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lee M Hollander [Hollander, Lee M]

13. OF EARL STRÚT-HAROLD AND VÉSETI AND THEIR SONS At that time there ruled in the island of Zealand an earl by the name of Harold. He was nicknamed Strút-Harold,35 ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 20,2019 )
Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair by Carole Sweeney
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Carole Sweeney [Sweeney, Carole]

Notes 1Kristin Ross, May ’68 and its Afterlives (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 184–5. 2Michallat, 314. 3Karl Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1920, orig. ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 20,2019 )
Kant by Robert Wicks
epub |eng | 2014-07-25 | Author:Robert Wicks [Wicks, Robert]

Key idea: The failure of metaphysics shifts our attention to morality Insofar as Kant repeatedly maintains that metaphysical knowledge is impossible – as in the Paralogisms – he appears to ...
( Category: Aesthetics November 20,2019 )
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Diane Samuels [Samuels, Diane]

ACT TWO Scene One The room is dim. The air is stale and smoke-filled. EVELYN’s clothes and hair are unkempt. Beside her is an ashtray containing a large number of ...
( Category: Playwriting November 20,2019 )
A Love Story by Emile Zola
epub |eng | 2017-08-02 | Author:Emile Zola

Chapter 3 The convalescence lasted for months. In August Jeanne was still in bed. She got up for an hour or two towards evening and it tired her dreadfully to ...
( Category: French November 20,2019 )
The Mi'kmaq Anthology by Lesley Choyce
epub |eng | | Author:Lesley Choyce

Bibliography Battiste, Marie. (1984). An historical investigation of the social and cultural consequences ofMicmac literacy. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Rand, S. Legends of the Micmacs. New York: ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 20,2019 )
The Monk (Oxford World's Classics) by Matthew Lewis
epub |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Matthew Lewis [Lewis, Matthew]

Ah! Happy Swain! Such bliss to me denying, Fortune thy lot with envy bids me view; Me, who from home and Spain an Exile flying, Bid all I value, all ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 20,2019 )
Graham Greene by Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur

GRAHAM GREENE was born in 1904 in Berkhamsted, the son of a school headmaster and part of the family that owned the Greene King brewery empire. Quickly discovering his love ...
( Category: Modern November 20,2019 )
Manto and Chughtai by Muhammed Umar Memon & M. Asaduddin
epub |eng | 2019-07-04 | Author:Muhammed Umar Memon & M. Asaduddin

SACRED DUTY The tiny bit of paper fluttered away from Siddiqi Sahib’s hand and fell on his lap like a half-dead moth. He brushed it off as though its poisonous ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 20,2019 )
Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson

Reading List Not to be missed: Need some Shirley Jackson in your life? Honestly, who doesn’t? Jackson is best known for her novels The Haunting of Hill House and We ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural November 19,2019 )
War Is a Racket by Smedley Darlington Butler
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Smedley Darlington Butler

Thank God, this is a democracy, and by your voice and by your vote you can save your boy. YOU are the bosses of this country—you mothers, you fathers. And ...
( Category: History & Theory November 19,2019 )
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis
epub |eng | 1987-01-15 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

* * * Postscript In agreeing to the interview Mr Vidal had armed himself with the stipulation that he would be able to see and check the piece before it ...
( Category: United States November 19,2019 )
Arias by Sharon Olds
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Sharon Olds

Dream of Mrs. Sly Mrs. Sly, my first-grade teacher— who told my mother, near my ear, I should be spanked every day, as soon as I woke up, before I ...
( Category: Love Poems November 19,2019 )

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