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History of the Thirteen (Penguin ed) by Honoré de Balzac
epub |eng | 2009-12-27 | Author:Honoré de Balzac [Balzac, Honoré de]

3 The real woman FOR about a week Madame de Langeais looked forward to seeing the Marquis de Montriveau again. But Armand was content to send his card every morning ...
( Category: Satire August 2,2019 )
Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry by Leonard Lewisohn
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Leonard Lewisohn [Lewisohn, Leonard]

Ḥāfiẓ and the Sufi suḥbat-i ‘āfiyatat gar chih khwūs uftād ay dil jānib-i ‘ishq ‘azīz ast, furū magdhārash. Although consorting with what’s safe and sound Seems, dear heart, to be ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 2,2019 )
The Literary Mind by Mark Turner
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Turner [Turner, Mark]

MANY SPACES Q. 95 However, a second possible response in the social debate occurs when those in the target reject the projection, on the claim that the two groups do ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology August 2,2019 )
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace
epub |eng | 2006-04-27 | Author:Horace [Horace]

It is true that one man plants vineyards larger 10 than his neighbour’s; that in the Campus one candidate for office is of nobler blood; another of greater reputation and ...
( Category: Renaissance August 2,2019 )
All in the Timing by David Ives
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:David Ives [Ives, David]

I’m talking about you, Jack. JACK: Oh. Sorry. DAWN: What she was saying was, she had found her perfect niche with you. JACK: Yeah well. If you’ve got a niche, ...
( Category: Drama August 2,2019 )
Serials to Graphic Novels by Catherine J Golden
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Catherine J Golden [Golden, Catherine J]

Surveying Forms of Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Fiction Amidst changing aesthetic tastes and advances in technology, the Victorian illustrated book did not die out at the end of the century; it evolved. ...
( Category: Victorian August 2,2019 )
Plays 5 by Caryl Churchill
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Caryl Churchill [Churchill, Caryl]

CIG What’s happened? SPEEDY Listen. Look. They’ve got him. They all turn to the tv. We can’t see the screen or hear what’s said. They listen and look then explode ...
( Category: Drama August 2,2019 )
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar [Tanpinar, Ahmet Hamdi]

And she added, “I’m in awe over the way one poet could vanquish a city through verse this way. Every time I hear this couplet, Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic August 2,2019 )
Selected Poems (1968-2014) by Paul Muldoon
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Muldoon

from HORSE LATITUDES At Least They Weren’t Speaking French I At least they weren’t speaking French when my father sat with his brothers and sisters, two of each, on a ...
( Category: European August 2,2019 )
The Milk Bowl of Feathers by Mary Ann Caws
epub |eng | 2018-09-25 | Author:Mary Ann Caws

Translated by Mary Ann Caws “Vanity, Memory of the Swan,” from Robert Desnos, “The Night of Loveless Nights” (1930). No, Love Is Not Dead No, love is not dead in ...
( Category: European August 2,2019 )
A Companion to Late Antique Literature by Scott McGill & Edward J Watts
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Scott McGill & Edward J Watts

20.2 Approaching Late Antiquity: The Emergence of Christian Theological Literature In classical antiquity the word “theology” had an ambiguous ring. “Theologians” were basically “mythologizers,” authors such as Homer or Hesiod, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical August 2,2019 )
The Selected Poems of Li Po by Li Bai
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Li Bai [Bai, Li]

ON HSIN-P’ING TOWER On this tower as I leave our homeland, late autumn wounds thoughts of return, and heaven long, a setting sun far off, this cold clear river keeps ...
( Category: Chinese August 2,2019 )
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
epub |eng | 2019-06-05 | Author:Natalia Ginzburg

* * * * “He seeketh Liberty . . .” (Dante, Purgatory, I, 71).
( Category: Family Life August 2,2019 )
Love and Exile by Isaac Bashevis Singer
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

3 When Sabina heard what I had done, she said that I wasn’t merely deranged but also suicidal. The most important thing for a young writer was to have a ...
( Category: Jewish August 2,2019 )
Lost Souls by Hwang Sunwon
epub |eng | 2009-11-19 | Author:Hwang Sunwon [Sunwon, Hwang]

HOUSE The rumors swept Sŏdanggol overnight: Maktong’s father had gone to the upper village to buy an ox and had gotten mixed up in gambling again. And this time he ...
( Category: Asian August 2,2019 )

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