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The Bell (proofread, toc) by Iris Murdoch
epub |eng | 2001-07-14 | Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]

CHAPTER 13 It was the next morning. The sun was still faithfully shining, but a certain dullness and bleakness in the air at breakfast-time made known the season, and then ...
( Category: Satire May 29,2019 )
The Brothers Karamazov (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

4 In the Dark Where had he gone running to? The answer was simple: ‘Where could she be, but at the house of Fyodor Pavlovich? From Samsonov’s house she must ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 29,2019 )
Mark Twain Among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples by Kerry Driscoll
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kerry Driscoll

WILLIAM F. CODY COMES TO TOWN The letter, which arrived at Quarry Farm on 8 September, reads, Samuel L. Clemens, Esq. Dear Sir, I should be pleased to see you ...
( Category: United States May 29,2019 )
Dust by Michael Marder
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Marder

eating our dust . . . Not by accident, two of the most thought-provoking and relatively recent books on dust—Joseph Amato’s 2000 Dust: A History of the Small & the ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by John Marincola
azw |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:John Marincola

As Herodotus tells it, the story falling, as it does, into three distinct episodes conforms to the preference for threefold organization characteristic of oral narrative (Olrik 1992: 52). But its ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Augustine
epub |eng | 1998-09-24 | Author:Augustine

The act itself which is performed under the influence of such lust shuns the public gaze. This is true not only of those debaucheries which need places of concealment in ...
( Category: History & Theory May 28,2019 )
Tales of the Narts by John Colarusso
epub |eng | 2016-05-27 | Author:John Colarusso

38 ♦ AISHANA A son was born to Urizhmag, and like the rumble of thunder the news echoed around and reached the ears of the heavenly Shafa, the god of ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology May 28,2019 )
Demons and Spirits of the Land by Claude Lecouteux
epub |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Claude Lecouteux

because that’s the boundary of Galvoie That knights cannot pass And ever return again. (6602–4) The boundary marker therefore signifies, to some extent, the beginning of a journey of no ...
( Category: Arthurian Romance May 28,2019 )
Before Orientalism by Phillips Kim M.;
epub |eng | | Author:Phillips, Kim M.;

Conclusion Medieval travelers’ tales distinguished between levels of civility in different parts of Asia, as in Poggio’s summary of Niccolò’s narrative: All India is divided into three parts: the first, ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown by Nathen Amin
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Nathen Amin [Amin, Nathen]

16 In Defence of the King 1431–1436 The carefully orchestrated trial and politically expedient execution of Joan of Arc failed to have any significant impact on the immediate war in ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China by Luo Manling Modern Language Initiative
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Luo, Manling,Modern Language Initiative. [Luo, Manling]

Li Yi was just sleeping with his wife Ms. Lu when he suddenly heard noises outside the bed curtains. Surprised, he looked and saw a man over twenty years old ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 28,2019 )
The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant by Dana Sajdi
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Dana Sajdi [Sajdi, Dana]

FIGURE 8. Opening page of the manuscript of The Events of Damascus. Source: MS Chester Beatty Library, Ar 3551, f. 24b. To sum up the discussion of the margin notes, ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
Manners, Customs, and Dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance Period by Paul Lacroix
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Paul Lacroix

Fig. 200.—Medal to commemorate the Association of the Merchants of the City of Rouen. It was not until the reign of Henry IV. that they again confined themselves to their ...
( Category: Renaissance May 28,2019 )
The Complete Illuminated Books of William Blake by William Blake
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:William Blake [Blake, William]

Thou art my Pride & Self-righteousness: I have found thee out: Thou art reveald before me in all thy magnitude & power Thy Uncircumcised pretences to Chastity must be cut ...
( Category: Poetry May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Roman Architecture by Roger B. Ulrich & Caroline K. Quenemoen
epub |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Roger B. Ulrich & Caroline K. Quenemoen

Welch has demonstrated that the provision of amphitheaters in Italy and the western provinces during the late republican and early imperial periods was linked to army training and to veteran ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )

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