History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2019-04-05 | Author:Rose Williams

Dear Rose, I would like to start out by saying thank you. Thank you for being strong enough and brave enough to tell your truly heart-breaking story. I will forever ...
( Category: Letters June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-30 | Author:Benjanun Sriduangkaew & J Moufawad-Paul [Sriduangkaew, Benjanun & Moufawad-Paul, J]

When the oppressed seek their liberation in appeals to the past they encounter numerous gatekeepers of the present squatting upon the remains of a history reduced to rubble by the ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:James Graham [Graham, James]

The Vote The Vote was created by James Graham and Josie Rourke and was first performed at the Donmar Warehouse, London, on 24 April 2015 with the following cast and ...
( Category: Playwriting June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-01 | Author:D. H. Lawrence

The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter “Well, Mabel, and what are you going to do with yourself?” asked Joe, with foolish flippancy. He felt quite safe himself. Without listening for an answer, he ...
( Category: Short Stories June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Niccolo Machiavelli [Machiavelli, Niccolo]

CHAPTER I. WHETHER ABILITY OR FORTUNE WAS THE MAIN REASON THE ROMANS CONQUERED THEIR EMPIRE Many have held the opinion—among them Plutarch, a most serious writer—that the Roman people, in ...
( Category: Renaissance June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-10 | Author:Natalia Ginzburg [Ginzburg, Natalia]

My Husband Let every man give his wife what is her due: and every woman do the same by her husband.1 (I Corinthians 7:3) I WAS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD when ...
( Category: Short Stories June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 1995-06-09 | Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Bless, we beseech thee, O Lord, This food of which we are about to partake, That it may nourish us and strengthen us To do thy service, for Christ our ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 10,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:A. B. Yehoshua

5 While Abulafia was bowing excitedly to his uncle, the same unseen hand that was gently wiping away the painful rift in his soul was transferring it slowly to that ...
( Category: Jewish June 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 7,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Lovecraft, H. P. [Lovecraft, H. P.]

It would be difficult to describe my sentiments upon reading this strange document for the first time. By all ordinary rules, I ought to have laughed more loudly at these ...
( Category: Short Stories June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Dorothy Parker [Parker, Dorothy]

( Category: Drama June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Burrow, J. A.; Turville-Petre, Thorlac; & Thorlac Turville-Petre

11 St Erkenwald The alliterative poem St Erkenwald survives in just one manuscript, British Library MS Harley 2250. This copy was made in 1477, but the poem was most likely ...
( Category: European June 7,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Jesse L. Byock [Byock, Jesse L.]

18. All that were carved on these Were scraped off And mixed with the holy mead75 And sent on widespread ways. They are with elves, Some with the Æsir And ...
( Category: Medieval June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anonymous Anonymous

22 BEOWULF SEEKS GRENDEL’S MOTHER. Beowulf answered, Ecgtheow’s son: Beowulf exhorts the old king to arouse himself for action. “Grieve not, O wise one! for each it is better, His ...
( Category: Medieval June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Revisiting the Poetic Edda Essays on Old Norse Heroic Legend (Routledge Medieval Casebooks)

Introduction to Chapter 7 The Later Heroic Poems of the Edda Atlakviða, Atlamál, Guðrúnarhvöt, and Hamðismál (Lay of Atli, Greenlandic Poem of Atli, The Whetting of Guðrún, and The Lay ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 7,2019 )