History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Bill Pronzini [Pronzini, Bill]

“Nineteen seventy-seven,” Kerry said. “Come on. The exact year?” “Want to make a little bet?” “You only looked at the photos for about two minutes.” “I don’t need any more ...
( Category: Victorian October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Blaise Pascal [Pascal, Blaise]

*[Pyrrhus, pressed to justify his plans for world conquest, reputedly answered that his ultimate purpose was to rest content, but not before realizing his dreams of conquest.]
( Category: Renaissance October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-08 | Author:Oronzo Cilli [Cilli, Oronzo]

______ (Edited by). Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight. Series: E.E.T.S. (Early English Text Society), OS 4. Revised by Israel Gollancz. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by ...
( Category: Literature October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Robert Irwin (ed) [Irwin, Robert]

Abu Muhammad the Sluggard While Harun al-Rashid was seated one day on his royal throne a young eunuch came into his presence carrying a crown of red gold set with ...
( Category: Medieval October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 1989-04-15 | Author:Tu Fu & David Hinton [Fu, Tu & Hinton, David]

My oar-strokes hushed, I leave for rivers and lakes, Distances without promise. I step out the gate, look Away—and suddenly, all trace has vanished. These Drug-cakes shoring me up—they alone ...
( Category: Chinese October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Liz Lochhead [Lochhead, Liz]

ACT TWO Widow MARY with candle, quill, at her writing desk again. She has some letters, opens one, reads. Paces, frets. MARY. Oh, Percy Florence Shelley, my sweet son, how ...
( Category: Drama October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Robert Maltby & Kenneth Belcher [Maltby, Robert & Belcher, Kenneth]

The regular words for the indefinite pronouns anyone, someone and anything, something in Latin are aliquis, aliqua, aliquid; however, after the conjunctions sī, nisi, nē, and num the forms quis, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-19 | Author:John J. Healey

*** He went to Flanders. He took part in the siege of Breda. He got along well with Ambrosio Spinola. He witnessed much death and destruction, and for the first ...
( Category: Renaissance October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-26 | Author:Kate Bolick

1. bell hooks, Susan Sontag, Ursula K. Le Guin, Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinem, Jhumpa Lahiri, Patti Smith, Nora Ephron, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Zadie Smith, Erica Jong, Elizabeth Alexander, ...
( Category: Women Authors October 7,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:Poppy Z Brite

January 15, 1890 — I feel so embarrassed for what has happened, and yet there is no way to show these feelings. After the argument with the whore, I still ...
( Category: Ghosts October 7,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Patti Smith

BIG RED Sam’s Stetson April Fool’s Day. A trickster grappled with the reins of action, as balls of confusion rolled toward us, scores of steely shooters, tripping us up, keeping ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians October 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Garrett, Greg [Garrett, Greg]

“I thought the dementors guard the prisoners at Azkaban,” [the Prime Minister] said cautiously. “They did,” said Fudge wearily. “But not anymore. They’ve deserted the prison and joined He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. I ...
( Category: Children's Literature October 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-29 | Author:Alberto Manguel

JOB The question is: What is he waiting for? He was, the Holy Book tells us, a perfect and upright man, one who feared God, and eschewed evil. He was ...
( Category: Essays September 30,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brooke, Nicholas;

1 That it is so here has been admirably demonstrated by M. M. Mahood in Shakespeare’s Wordplay, 1957. Richard II [1595] I There are a few untidy patches in the ...
( Category: Poetry September 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Nelson, Ingrid;

“Who made this song now with so good entente?” Antygone answerde anoon and seyde, “Madame, ywys, the goodlieste mayde Of gret estat in al the town of Troye, And let ...
( Category: Renaissance September 30,2019 )