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Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Chopin Kate; Seyersted Per;
epub |eng | 1969-04-06 | Author:Chopin, Kate; Seyersted, Per;

IV The boy felt no little astonishment when he made Suzima’s acquaintance in her official capacity of a fortune teller. It was a sunny afternoon and they had halted at ...
( Category: United States April 7,2019 )
L.E.L. by Lucasta Miller
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Lucasta Miller [Miller, Lucasta]

The teenage Brontë sisters, painted by their brother Branwell, c. 1834. As outsider readers, they admired both L.E.L. and Fraser’s Magazine, but could not get all its gossipy references. A ...
( Category: Poetry April 5,2019 )
Laura Ingalls Wilder by Sallie Ketcham
epub |eng | | Author:Sallie Ketcham [Sallie Ketcham]

As it happened, Rose would see almost as much of the world as her fictional and eternally wandering counterpart, but the impression she made upon her grandmother at the time ...
( Category: Essays March 31,2019 )
Alexander the Great by Boardman John
epub |eng | 2018-09-30 | Author:Boardman, John

Seriously, Though—Nectanebo? The association of the Egyptian king Nectanebo II and his sarcophagus with Alexander, as his father and providing his final resting place, recurs in many Romances. Historically, their ...
( Category: United States March 30,2019 )
The flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Brooks Van Wyck 1886-1963
epub |eng | 1981-03-28 | Author:Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963

CONCORD: 1840-1844 273 could count on their rice and turnips, they cut their meals down to two a day to provide for the neighbour with the drunken husband. There were ...
( Category: United States March 29,2019 )
A history of American magazines by Mott Frank Luther 1886-1964
epub |eng | 1938-03-28 | Author:Mott, Frank Luther, 1886-1964

INDEX TO THE FIVE VOLUMES BY ROBERT J. PALMER AE (George William Russell), IV:425 A. M. E. Church Review, 111:71 Abbey, Edwin Austin, 11:397, 401, 477; 111:188; IV:151, 544 Abbot’s ...
( Category: United States March 29,2019 )
The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn
epub, mobi |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn [Gellhorn, Martha]

The Russians April 1945 One Russian guard stood at the pontoon bridge on our side of the Elbe. He was small and shaggy and bright-eyed. He waved to us to ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 28,2019 )
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

284 Belief in Oneself In general, few people believe in themselves – and of those few, some possess this belief as a useful blindness or a partial eclipse of the ...
( Category: Individual Philosophers March 28,2019 )
Limbo by Fox Dan;
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Fox, Dan; [Dan Fox]

¶ The ocean. ‘A dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies ...
( Category: Modern March 27,2019 )
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard & Liza Picard
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Liza Picard & Liza Picard

Pardons The royal power to pardon may evoke a compassionate sovereign embracing his sinful subjects. The reality was rather different. Pardons could bring welcome additions to the sovereign’s treasury. Following ...
( Category: Medieval March 27,2019 )
The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical by Meg Jensen
epub |eng | | Author:Meg Jensen

How They Said It As we have seen in this chapter, while the act of writing hurt them, Woolf, Nabokov, Alvarez, and Kerouac, all also found it necessary. Kerouac expressed ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling March 26,2019 )
Poetics of History by Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe;Fort Jeff;
epub |eng | | Author:Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe;Fort, Jeff;

2 At the end of these pages, everything seems finalized. The verdict is not only terrible, it is also irrevocable. Even before Rousseau seeks to confirm it by examples or ...
( Category: European March 26,2019 )
Writing Animals by Timothy C. Baker
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy C. Baker

Open Narratives: Evie Wyld and Yannick Murphy Both All the Birds, Singing and The Call open with a vivid description of animal death, divorced from any context. Wyld’s novel begins ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2019 )
Boccaccio's Corpus by Kriesel James C.;
epub |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:Kriesel, James C.;

THE DECAMERON AND PETRARCH In the overt metaliterary sections of the Decameron, Boccaccio was striving to differentiate his elegiac-inflected poetics and ethics from what he characterized as Dante’s comedic ideas ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2019 )
Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara Foley;
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Foley;

Symptomatic Reading This recognition that many texts send out mixed ideological signals to their readers brings us to a consideration of the role played by ideological contradiction and symptomatic reading ...
( Category: Politics March 25,2019 )

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