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My 1980s and Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Wayne Koestenbaum

(2005) Brigitte Bardot Shopping in Shorts inspired by a Karen Kilimnik drawing BB: Thanks for drawing me in 1974. KK: A pleasure. BB: Being harassed by the press is no ...
( Category: LGBT June 29,2019 )
Break the mirror : the poems of Nanao Sakaki by Sakaki Nanao
epub |eng | 1987-06-27 | Author:Sakaki, Nanao

Everlasting blue of the sky. Limitless wealth of the forest. I write new signboard in my mind: “Welcome to the mountain! Pick up anything you want! If you love mushrooms, ...
( Category: Japanese June 28,2019 )
Notice by Heather Lewis
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-20 | Author:Heather Lewis

Nineteen This didn’t put her off taking me driving, it only made her choose more carefully where to go. Since public places and someone else’s backyard or field or driveway ...
( Category: Women Authors June 28,2019 )
The Portable Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau & Jeffrey S. Cramer
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Henry David Thoreau & Jeffrey S. Cramer [Thoreau, Henry David]

V SOLITUDE This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, ...
( Category: United States June 28,2019 )
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Robert Browning

Apparent Failure ‘We shall soon lose a celebrated building.’ Paris Newspaper I No, for I’ll save it! Seven years since, I passed through Paris, stopped a day To see the ...
( Category: Love Poems June 28,2019 )
Raised From the Ground by Jose Saramago
epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Jose Saramago [José Saramago]

* * * 1 Queen Isabel of Aragon, the wife of the Portuguese King Dom Dinis, was devoted to helping the poor. When her husband upbraided her for giving money ...
( Category: Renaissance June 26,2019 )
American Little Magazines of the Fin De Siecle by MacLeod Kirsten;
epub |eng | | Author:MacLeod, Kirsten;

At the same time, portraits of writers were a dominant feature of the magazine in this early period, and would remain so. These generally appeared in conjunction with an article ...
( Category: History of Books June 26,2019 )
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Harvest in Translation) by Saramago José
azw3 |eng | 1992-04-26 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

As one has already seen in other times and other places, life has its vexations. When Ricardo Reis awoke late next morning, he sensed a presence in the room. Perhaps ...
( Category: European June 26,2019 )
Baltasar and Blimunda (Harvest Book) by Saramago José
azw3 |eng | 1998-10-15 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

WE ARE LIVING in an age where a nun, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, is likely to encounter the Child Jesus in the cloister, ...
( Category: Renaissance June 26,2019 )
The Double by Saramago José
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-10-02 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

MAY I SPEAK TO SENHOR DANIEL SANTA-CLARA, ASKED Tertuliano Máximo Afonso when the man’s wife answered, You’re the same person, I presume, who phoned the other day, I recognize your ...
( Category: Renaissance June 26,2019 )
How to Read the Constitution—and Why by Kim Wehle
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Kim Wehle

( Category: Constitutions June 26,2019 )
Why We Read Fiction by Lisa Zunshine
epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Lisa Zunshine [Zunshine, Lisa]

FIGURE 2. Clarissa dying. Reproduced courtesy of McMaster University Library. (a) Mind-Games in Clarissa Clarissa is a story of two brilliant young people, Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace, fatally misreading ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 25,2019 )
Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub |swe | 2005-09-06 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

10 – I shall be asked why I have really narrated all these little things which according to the traditional judgement are matters of indifference: it will be said that ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 25,2019 )
The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
epub, pdf |eng | 1967-11-15 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

404 Like a momentary color, in which swans 405 Were seraphs, were saints, were changing essences. 406 The west wind was the music, the motion, the force 407 To which ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 25,2019 )
If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded by Kurt Vonnegut
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

7. Don’t Forget Where You Come From Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 11, 1996 Vonnegut celebrates his own hometown, and hopes that some graduates will become the kind of “saints” ...
( Category: United States June 24,2019 )

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