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Customs in Common by E P Thompson
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:E P Thompson

Plate I. One of the earliest surviving trade union cards, which was filed among the Crown’s affidavits when woolcombers were prosecuted in 1725 in Alton, Hants. (See p. 59.) Note ...
( Category: Essays September 6,2019 )
On Color by David Kastan & Stephen Farthing
epub |eng | 2018-07-15 | Author:David Kastan & Stephen Farthing [Kastan, David & Farthing, Stephen]

FIGURE 28: An indigo plantation in the Antilles, in Jean Baptiste du Tertre, Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François, vol. 2 (Paris, 1667) Nothing is visible here of ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology September 6,2019 )
Complete Works of Homer by Homer
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Homer [Homer]

( Category: History & Theory September 6,2019 )
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Naja Marie Aidt

Truth (trooth), n. [pl. TRUTHS (troothz, troths)], [ME. treuthe; AS. Treowth, truwth; see TRUE & -TH]. 1. the quality or state of being true; specifically, a. formerly, loyalty; trustworthiness. b. ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement September 6,2019 )
Hard to Love by Briallen Hopper
epub |eng | | Author:Briallen Hopper

Dear God, Why am I such a dull lump? You give us leaven and salt and the moon shoaling blue, even as new daylight glades into morning. I want to ...
( Category: Essays September 5,2019 )
The Killing Zone by Frederick Downs
epub |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Frederick Downs

13 November 1967 This morning we were late getting into position because Delta Six was moving his company back into the valley. We were the only platoon staying up. After ...
( Category: Study Guides September 5,2019 )
The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Walter Benjamin

THE STORYTELLER Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskov I AS FAMILIAR as the name sounds, the storyteller is far from an active, living presence in our lives. He is ...
( Category: Essays September 5,2019 )
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
epub |eng | | Author:Ntozake Shange

My Mama & Her Mama ’Fore Her: Codfish Cakes (Accra) 4 ounces salt fish (cod) 1 small onion, chopped 2 cups flour ¼ teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon dried yeast ...
( Category: African American September 5,2019 )
The Nun (Penguin Classics) by Denis Diderot
epub |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Denis Diderot [Diderot, Denis]

The Nun Next day the Superior came to my cell accompanied by a nun carrying over her arm a hair-shirt and the coarse garment I had been dressed in when ...
( Category: French September 5,2019 )
The Nun (Oxford World's Classics) by Denis Diderot
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-14 | Author:Denis Diderot [Diderot, Denis]

Monsieur B...’s diagnosis proved accurate. The fever abated, quelled finally by heavy sweating, and my recovery was no longer in doubt. I did indeed recover, but I had to convalesce ...
( Category: French September 5,2019 )
Killer's Choice by Louis Begley
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Louis Begley

* * * — The American Hotel had been Uncle Harry’s favorite Sag Harbor hangout, I explained to Feng, whom I’d never taken there before, and it had become mine ...
( Category: Murder September 5,2019 )
In Her Feminine Sign by Dunya Mikhail
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Dunya Mikhail

IV 1 I wanted to write an epic about suffering, but when I found a tendril of her hair among the ruins of her mud house I found my epic ...
( Category: Poetry September 5,2019 )
The Monster Loves His Labyrinth by Charles Simic
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Simic [Simic, Charles]

To rescue the banal is every lyric poet’s ambition. All lives are strange, but the lives of immigrants and exiles are even more so. My parents died a long way ...
( Category: Authors September 5,2019 )
Reflections by Walter Benjamin
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Benjamin

The interior is the retreat of art. The collector is a true inmate of the interior. He makes the transfiguration of things his business. To him falls the Sisyphean task ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )
Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin
epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Kate Chopin [Chopin, Kate]

A MATTER OF PREJUDICE Madame Carambeau wanted it strictly understood that she was not to be disturbed by Gustave’s birthday party. They carried her big rocking-chair from the back gallery, ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )

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