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Orpheus: The Song of Life by Wroe Ann
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Wroe, Ann [Wroe, Ann]

Medieval theologians followed Orpheus into a lower world already licked by fire. As an enlightened soul – as Intellect itself – he had no business to be there, among small ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics) by Aesop
epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
Darkness Moves by Henri Michaux
epub |eng | 2015-05-27 | Author:Henri Michaux

from OLD AGE OF POLLAGORAS I would really like to know why I always follow the horse whose bridle I am holding. With age, says Pollagoras, I have become like ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory May 27,2019 )
The Morals, vol. 2 by Plutarch
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Plutarch

Old age the Cyprian queen must ever shun, And Venus from old men in scorn doth run. Therefore they marry not in May, but tarry till June, which is presently ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
On David Malouf by Nam Le
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nam Le [Le, Nam]

PATRIA There he is, in his fat golden tie, accepting the honour of his lifetime (so far). In his steady, high-pitched voice, David Malouf delivers his Neustadt Lecture at the ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian May 27,2019 )
The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Oscar Wilde

Eloquence is a beautiful thing, but rhetoric ruins many a critic … —“Ben Jonson” … I think that the first duty of an art critic is to hold his tongue ...
( Category: European May 25,2019 )
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Franz Kafka

[Prague, August 1, 1920] Sunday I still don’t know what you’re going to say to the letter of Saturday evening and I won’t know for a long time; in any ...
( Category: German May 21,2019 )
An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton
epub |eng | | Author:Jo Walton

OTHER CATEGORIES BEST NOVELLA Winner: Enemy Mine, by Barry B. Longyear (Asimov’s, September 1979) Nominees: The Battle of the Abaco Reefs, by Hilbert Schenck (F&SF, June 1979) Ker-Plop, by Ted ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 20,2019 )
The Apology by Eve Ensler
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Eve Ensler

• • Pizza parlor. Classless joint. Family dinner. No martinis. Annoyed. You antsy in your seat. You’re reaching for things. Sit up straight, Eve. Sit still. I say something. You ...
( Category: Child Abuse May 16,2019 )
A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

* * * Antenami was very pleased with himself, hopeful that two desires could be assuaged now that he had found her. He had little interest in the family business. ...
( Category: Renaissance May 16,2019 )
Lost Gold of the Dark Ages by Caroline Alexander
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Caroline Alexander [Alexander, Caroline]

CONVERSIONS As pagan Anglo-Saxons moved into Britain after the Romans, Celtic Christians retreated westward or were absorbed into the invaders’ Germanic culture. It was only with the advent of Christian ...
( Category: Renaissance May 15,2019 )
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean by Cunliffe Barry;
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Cunliffe, Barry;

7.18 A marble stele commemorating Diodotus Tryphon found in the Greek city of Tanis at the mouth of the Don in the kingdom of Bosporus. He is dressed in scale ...
( Category: Historical Events May 15,2019 )
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-12 | Author:Michael Slater [Slater, Michael]

are not to be done without trouble; and the main trouble necessary to them, is the devising of some pleasant means of telling what is to be told. The indispensable ...
( Category: Victorian May 12,2019 )
Something in the Blood by David J. Skal
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:David J. Skal

One half-expected to see witches flying past the chimneypots and people being burned at the stake in Trafalgar Square. People became beasts. Everything that had been progressive and modern in ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural May 10,2019 )
Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Rachel Hollis [Hollis, Rachel]

TEN YEARS I like to encourage people to start by closing their eyes and imagining the best version of themselves. Imagine that a decade of time has gone by, and ...
( Category: Study Guides May 8,2019 )

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