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A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney by Natalie Clifford Barney & Anna Livia
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Natalie Clifford Barney & Anna Livia

Illicit Love Defended Countess G. used to say, "What do I care if they love men, women or canaries!" The great lady was surely right: only love is important, not ...
( Category: Europe November 19,2019 )
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Nicola Gardini

* * * […] quique a me morte revelli heu sola poteras, poteris nec morte revelli. (IV.152–53) […] and you, whom death alone could steal from me, you can be ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 18,2019 )
Great Goddesses by Nikita Gill
epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Nikita Gill

An Interlude with Artemis The night sky is a wolf’s mouth today, and Artemis, bathed in solitude, is on her wild hunt. I meet her by the silver lake and ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology November 18,2019 )
Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney
epub |eng | | Author:Darryl Pinckney

AUSTERE AND LONELY OFFICES In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” a poem published in 1936, a narrator speaks for those who struggle—the poor white, the Negro bearing slavery’s ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism November 18,2019 )
Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation by Silvia G. Dapía
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Silvia G. Dapía

MENARD’S CONTEXT OF PRODUCTION: JULIEN BENDA VS. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In his brilliant study on Borges, Out of Context, Daniel Balderston provides us with decisive insights into Menard’s context of production, ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 16,2019 )
Dark Star by Oliver Langmead
epub |eng | 2015-04-05 | Author:Oliver Langmead

*** The papers have picked up a new scandal For the cycle. All progress on the Heart Is way back on page seven with the sports. Funny how easy it ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 15,2019 )
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid by Hofstadter Douglas R. 1945-
epub |eng | 1980-11-13 | Author:Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-

( Category: Machine Theory November 14,2019 )
Refusing heaven by Gilbert Jack
epub |eng | 2005-11-13 | Author:Gilbert, Jack

y i I i The aiithoi' wishes to thank Keiiy O'Keefe and HeniyLyman for their assistance in preparing this book. t > s A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jack Gilbert ...
( Category: Love Poems November 14,2019 )
Celtic Mythology by History Hourly
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:History, Hourly [History, Hourly]

—By Percy Bysshe Shelly from Queen Mab Goibniu, the Swordsmith of the Gods, was a vital link in the power of the people of the Tuatha dé Danann. He was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 14,2019 )
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Lobo Antunes António
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Lobo Antunes, António [Lobo Antunes, António]

13 At Christmastime the supply column brought four women stuck between the crates of the last Mercedes, not very young, not very attractive, not very clean of course, with soldiers’ ...
( Category: European November 14,2019 )
The Prosecutor by Bastos Augusto Roa
epub |eng | 2018-02-19 | Author:Bastos, Augusto Roa [Bastos, Augusto Roa]

--Gossip mill of Madrid: Tell us: Who killed the Count? --They say that The Cid killed him Because the Count was healthy. Tasteless crazy idea The truth of the case ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American November 14,2019 )
Poems and Sonnets by William Shakespeare
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:William Shakespeare

'Thus he that overruled I overswayed, Leading him prisoner in a red-rose chain: 110 Strong-tempered steel his stronger strength obeyed, Yet was he servile to my coy disdain. O, be ...
( Category: Poetry November 10,2019 )
Uncommon Tongues by Nicholson Catherine;
epub |eng | 2013-11-09 | Author:Nicholson, Catherine;

The Unrestful Shepherd Spenser’s pastoral narrative performs a similarly complex rereading of the literary significance of exile. For most sixteenth-century English rhetorical and poetic theorists, exile functions as a metaphor ...
( Category: Renaissance November 10,2019 )
The Problem with Everything by Meghan Daum
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Meghan Daum

CHAPTER 5 What Hath One Lecture Wrought!: Trouble on Campus Nearly thirty years ago, when I was a sophomore at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, student activists made national ...
( Category: Women November 7,2019 )
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner & James B. Meriwether (ed)
mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:William Faulkner & James B. Meriwether (ed)

[University of Virginia Magazine, Spring 1958; collected in Faulkner in the University, edited by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, University of Virginia Press, 1959. The text printed here ...
( Category: Letters November 7,2019 )

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