History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:David Day

Southron Tribesman of Far Harad Subsequently, Tolkien’s chronologies inform us that, after five centuries, Gondor’s grip on power over Umbar slips from its grasp. In the year TA 1448, Gondor ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Stephen Fry

THE JOURNEY HOME By the time the last pieces of Absyrtus had been dropped into the water at careful intervals, Aeëtes’ ship was far behind, out of sight below the ...
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Isherwood

5 AS BIRDS DO, Mother was published in the spring of 1928. Elizabeth and I were in Paris at the time; we had travelled up there specially from Rome, so ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Jane Harper [Harper, Jane]

Day 3: Saturday Morning The icy wind blew in from the south and didn’t let up. The women trudged along wordlessly, their heads down against the gale. They had found ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Philip Kazan [Philip Kazan]

The nuns had washed and repaired my clothes. I found them waiting for me one morning when I came back to my cell after hobbling around the lovely little garden ...
( Category: Renaissance May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Harold Bloom

This morbid little splendor has a grisly charm and admits us to a curious kind of comedy. Here is a personal favorite, “Song of the Stygian Naiades”: PROSERPINE may pull ...
( Category: Poetry May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-24 | Author:Jeffrey S. Cramer

I find the beef fat and well done, but him rare. —Journal, May 19, 1856117 How I love the simple, reserved countrymen, my neighbors, who mind their own business and ...
( Category: Modern May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Hiney

Letter to James Sandoe, 4 December 1949. Theodor Geisel, the La Jolla-based author of the Dr Seuss children's books, was also involved in the following incident. Max Miller found a ...
( Category: United States May 6,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Charly Cox [Cox, Charly]

inner gold Soften the shards That broke you clean Fresh and angry As though they seem Can be rounded as gems Handed as souvenirs To those who are yet to ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Walt Whitman

The objections to me are the objections made to all men who choose to go their own road—make their own choice of methods. When once I am convinced I never ...
( Category: Modern May 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela Regis

13 CIVIL CONTRACTS Georgette Heyer Beginning in 1921, Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) wrote one and sometimes two historical romance novels per year until her death in 1974. A 19§4 survey taken ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:JaHyun Kim Haboush

The Memoir of 1805 * * * The tragedy of the imo year (1762) is unparalleled. Early in pyŏngsin (1776) the late King [Chŏngjo], who was then still Crown Prince, ...
( Category: United States May 2,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2007-05-15 | Author:Shakespearre SparkNotes [SparkNotes, Shakespearre]

Brought to you in Copyright 2007, 2002 by SparkNotes association with: Act IV, scenes i–ii Summary: Act IV, scene i Frantic after her confrontation with Hamlet, Gertrude hurries to Claudius, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-29 | Author:William Goldman [Goldman, William]

-NOVEMBER 2 8, 1994 ANYTHING BUT GUMP Among Hollywood machers, it may be the most reviled best-loved movie ever But come Oscar time, who’ll have the chops to cut down ...
( Category: Drama May 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 1964-04-30 | Author:Henry Miller

Reflections on Writing —The Wisdom of the Heart Knut Hamsun once said, in response to a questionnaire, that he wrote to kill time. I think that even if he were ...
( Category: United States April 30,2019 )