History & Criticism
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Armstrong, Karen [Armstrong, Karen]

v The Axial Age (c. 800 to 200 BCE) By the eighth century BCE, the malaise was becoming more widespread, and in four distinct regions an impressive array of prophets ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

* * * Ralph sat up. “Well. We shan’t find what we’re looking for at this rate.” One by one they stood up, twitching rags into place. Ralph looked at ...
( Category: Psychological July 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kramer, Lawrence;

“I cannot send you the manuscripts as they are not yet finished. I have been ill as a dog. My illness has had a pernicious effect on the Preludes Which ...
( Category: Modern July 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-04-30 | Author:DeLillo, Don [DeLillo, Don]

A man spoke to him from the other side of the screen door. Lee looked at his bloated face peering in above the set of credentials he held under his ...
( Category: Historical July 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-06-30 | Author:Burt, Daniel S. & Felder, Deborah G. [Burt, Daniel S.]

In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of ...
( Category: Rhetoric July 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-01 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

And then, with the holy rites performed in full, they turned back to the city. The king, bent with years, kept his comrades, Aeneas and his son, beside him, moving ...
( Category: Medieval July 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-01 | Author:Emma Smith

CHAPTER 12 Twelfth Night ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ (1.1.1). The opening line of Twelfth Night, or, What You Will makes clear that this is a ...
( Category: European July 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Thomas Mann [Mann, Thomas]

THE FORENOON and the afternoon fled rapidly away. The play-house was already full: our friend hastened to dress. It was not with the joy which it had given him when ...
( Category: German July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Pablo Hidalgo [Hidalgo, Pablo]

AUTHOR · Paul Balsamo PUBLICATION HISTORY · Short story, West End Games · Star Wars Adventure Journal #1, February 1994 TIME LINE PLACEMENT · 4 ABY WORLDS VISITED · Balis-Baurgh ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 1,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-12 | Author:Israel Regardie [Regardie, Israel]

CHAPTER TEN: China The biographers have recorded a large cluster of events occurring within a matter of four or five years. Of themselves, they are not particularly pertinent to my ...
( Category: Wicca July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-23 | Author:Eagleton, Terry;

9 THOMAS HARDY Not all that long ago, a standard account of Thomas Hardy might have run rather like this: Hardy was a self-educated author who struggled his way up ...
( Category: European July 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Mary di Michele

After Dinner Story G.’s father was a natural philosopher. All would gather round to listen to him. One story lingers in my mind as does that long ago night sitting ...
( Category: Canadian July 1,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:

( Category: Parodies June 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:John Sutherland [John Sutherland]

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952 As there are ‘Great White Hopes’ in the world of boxing so, in fiction, there have been great black hopes. It was unfair – and, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

VII Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men’s ...
( Category: Historical June 29,2019 )