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Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods by Gary Paulsen
epub |eng | 1994-08-02 | Author:Gary Paulsen [Paulsen, Gary]

Fishhouse Dreams Sometimes cold weather came long before snow and there was enough time for the rivers and lakes to freeze without snow accumulating on the ice. This period would ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2019 )
On Haiku by Hiroaki Sato
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Hiroaki Sato

The Haiku Reformer Shiki: How Important Is His Haiku? In an email on October 4, 2015, Charlie Trumbull, the former editor of Modern Haiku, asked me: “Why have so few ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2019 )
Ann Petry by Ann Petry
epub |eng | 2018-11-07 | Author:Ann Petry

7 * * * LINK HAD FINISHED EATING his breakfast. Abbie Crunch said, “I wish you’d—” stopped, said, “I—” and never finished what she was going to say. They both ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2019 )
Bertie and the Tinman by Peter Lovesey
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Peter Lovesey

CHAPTER 13 Yes, thirteen—the unlucky number. When I arrive at a dinner party, I always count the places at the table. If they number thirteen, I call for my coat. ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Bertie and the Seven Bodies by Peter Lovesey
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Peter Lovesey

CHAPTER 13 “Has Bullivant appeared yet?” I asked. Inspector Sweeney gave me a persecuted look, then told me not only that the search for Bullivant had been unproduc­tive, but that ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Bertie and the Crime of Passion by Peter Lovesey
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Peter Lovesey

CHAPTER 11 After that, I need fortifying,” I told Bernhardt. “Shall we find ourselves some lunch?” This being a fine morning, the first promise of spring, we strolled in the ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen, Henrik]

OSWALD Yes, I know he was. MRS. ALVING It was like a breezy day only to look at him. And what exuberant strength and vitality there was in him! OSWALD ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER 15 Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar Behold, the fool saith, ‘Put not all thine eggs in the one basket’—which is but a manner of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2019 )
Adaptation and Appropriation by Sanders Julie;
epub |eng | | Author:Sanders, Julie;

Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: ‘Just another adaptation’? During an early period of her life when she is housed and schooled in the Dominican Convent of Saint Innocenzia, the protagonist ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 24,2019 )
The Emotions by Sartre Jean-Paul;
epub |eng | | Author:Sartre, Jean-Paul;

CHAPTER THREE A SKETCH OF A PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY PERHAPS WHAT will help us in our investigation is a preliminary observation which may serve as a general criticism of all the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 24,2019 )
Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction by Meillassoux Quentin
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Meillassoux, Quentin

*** So it seems that extro-science fiction can become a full-fledged genre, because it has at its disposal various procedures capable of supporting a narration despite the ambient disorder of ...
( Category: Philosophy March 23,2019 )
Splatter Capital by Steven Mark;
epub |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:Steven, Mark;

Third Intermission Global Ferox I don’t properly remember when or where I first heard about Italian horror. Maybe an IMDB list on a school library computer screen. But this could ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 23,2019 )
The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
mobi |eng | 2000-02-14 | Author:Kingsley Amis

TO J.H. McCALLUM – 24 AUGUST 1960 53 Glanmor Road, Uplands, Swansea, Glam., G.B. Dear John, I am really delighted to hear that TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU has drawn ...
( Category: European March 23,2019 )
The Shipment and Lear by Young Jean Lee
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Young Jean Lee [Lee, Young Jean]

MICHAEL (To Thomasina): Didn’t you say Thomas was your most social and happy friend? THOMASINA: He was! OMAR: He’s definitely my most social and happy friend! THOMASINA: So what do ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 23,2019 )
Carnal Prayer Mat by Yu Li
epub |eng | 1996-04-02 | Author:Yu Li [Li, Yu]

Meanwhile, ever since parting from Fragrance, Vesperus had been suffering from lovesickness. In his desperate state he was counting on the Knave's magical powers to reunite him with Fragrance. "If ...
( Category: Prayer March 23,2019 )

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