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The Mystified Magistrate by Marquis de Sade
epub |eng | 2000-02-28 | Author:Marquis de Sade [Sade, Marquis de]

Our poor young woman spent a relatively peaceful night, but for the next six days was still in no condition to tell her benefactor the events leading up to his ...
( Category: French August 2,2019 )
Nexus by Henry Miller
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Henry Miller [Henry Miller]

A month had passed and all I had had from Mona were two brief letters. They were living on the rue Princesse in a charming little hotel, very clean, very ...
( Category: United States August 1,2019 )
New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver
epub |eng | 2010-07-31 | Author:Mary Oliver

1945–1985: Poem for the Anniversary Sometimes, walking for hours through the woods, I don’t know what I’m looking for, maybe for something shy and beautiful to come frisking out of ...
( Category: Conservation August 1,2019 )
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecelia Watson
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Cecelia Watson

D. H. Lawrence, who helped dredge Melville back up from obscurity in the 1920s, wrote of Moby-Dick that “there is something really overwhelming in these whale-hunts, almost superhuman or inhuman, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory July 31,2019 )
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come by Richard Preston
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Richard Preston

NGALIEMA HOSPITAL, KINSHASA Midday, September 27 Ngaliema Hospital sits on a hill overlooking the Congo River at the lower expanse of the great Malebo Pool, a broad, sluggish detention of ...
( Category: Pathology July 31,2019 )
Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd
epub |eng | 2010-07-29 | Author:Declan Kiberd [Declan Kiberd]

Notes – 12. Drinking 1 vocabulary be revealed: C. P. Curran, James Joyce Remembered, 70 2 national parallelism: Séan de Fréine, The Great Silence, Dublin, 1965, 108 3 admirer of ...
( Category: European July 30,2019 )
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4th Ed.) by Chris Baldick
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Chris Baldick

in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...
( Category: Word Lists July 29,2019 )
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two by Dickinson Emily
epub |eng | 2010-02-15 | Author:Dickinson, Emily [Dickinson, Emily]

X. A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, — The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory July 29,2019 )
Poems and Songs (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Burns
epub |eng | 1991-06-02 | Author:Robert Burns [Burns, Robert]

Written in Friar's Carse Hermitage on the banks of Nith – June – 1788 Thou whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory July 29,2019 )
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by Baldick Chris;
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Baldick, Chris;

in-yer-face theatre A term coined by Aleks Sierz in his book In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (2001), to refer to a new wave of British drama of the 1990s that ...
( Category: Word Lists July 29,2019 )
The Greek Plays by Aeschylus
epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Aeschylus

Odysseus [returning with the wine-skin. He is followed by Silenus, who is also drunk.] Hearken, Cyclops; for I am well versed in the ways of Bacchus, whom I have given ...
( Category: Greek July 28,2019 )
Latest Readings (2015) by Clive James
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Clive James

Kipling and the Widow-maker BACK IN 2010, during my first year of illness, I added to my woes by stupidly contriving to remain immobile in my cabin throughout an Atlantic ...
( Category: Authors July 27,2019 )
Death in Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
epub |eng | 1988-10-01 | Author:Thomas Mann [Mann, Thomas]

CHAPTER FOUR Every day now, the bare-skinned, fiery-cheeked god piloted his heat-breathing chariot across the sky’s expanse, his golden locks waving in the simultaneously storming east wind. Silky white radiance ...
( Category: German July 27,2019 )
The Contemporaries by Roger White
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Roger White

Frank on a Rock, 2002 He’s reclining on a rock jutting out of the water; let’s take the cue from the painting’s title and call him Frank. The bottom edge ...
( Category: French July 27,2019 )
What if? : writing exercises for fiction writers by Bernays Anne;Painter Pamela & Painter Pamela
epub |eng | 1990-06-19 | Author:Bernays, Anne;Painter, Pamela & Painter, Pamela [Bernays, Anne;Painter, Pamela & Painter, Pamela]

"Sure did," I said, smiling and turning back to the paper.Go away, I thought. Go back to bed. Leave me to my Sunday.The phone rang, and shirtless Stan twisted to ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 27,2019 )

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