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The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy: Volume 1: Neglected Authors by Matthew Wright
epub |eng | 2016-09-18 | Author:Matthew Wright

5 Some Fourth-Century Tragedians If one’s impression of the tragic genre is formed exclusively on the basis of the few plays that survive, or the accounts that are offered in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 2,2019 )
The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master by James Henry
epub |eng | 2016-10-11 | Author:James, Henry

June 29 The Awkward Age, 1899 A person who knew him well would, if present at the scene, have found occasion in it to be freshly aware that he was, ...
( Category: United States March 1,2019 )
Textual Awareness: A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann by Van Hulle Dirk
epub |eng | | Author:Van Hulle, Dirk

Chapter 7 Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus The “MAKING OF” VERSUS DIE ENTSTEHUNG: CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WRITING PROCESS In the year of Joyce's death, Harry Levin wrote a critical introduction ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 28,2019 )
The Circle of Nine by Cherry Gilchrist
epub |eng | | Author:Cherry Gilchrist

BELIEF AND EMOTION Our sense of justice is closely linked to strong personal emotions that accompany our deepest convictions. A woman in the grip of a conviction is likely to ...
( Category: Feminist February 28,2019 )
Bookends by Michael Chabon
epub |eng | 2018-11-22 | Author:Michael Chabon

“The Rocket Man,” Ray Bradbury THE MOST IMPORTANT SHORT STORY IN MY LIFE AS A WRITER is Ray Bradbury’s “The Rocket Man.” I read it for the first time when ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2019 )
Poems by Wilfred Owen
epub |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Wilfred Owen

Escape? There is one unwatched way; your eyes, O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. And when the cordon tightens of the spies Let the close iris of your ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory February 27,2019 )
A Responsibility to Awe by Rebecca Elson
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Rebecca Elson [Elson, Rebecca]

28 April Travelling light Now like a wave Or bagpipes starting up Now like particles We can only say like Not knowing how to see Two things as one And ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory February 27,2019 )
Netochka Nezvanova (Penguin ed.) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2006-06-29 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER SIX My new life was as serene and peaceful as if I had settled among hermits… I lived for more than eight years with my new guardians, and in ...
( Category: Russian February 26,2019 )
The Gambler and Other Stories (Penguin ed.) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2010-07-02 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER 9 At the top of the steps of the hotel’s wide porch, carried up the stairs in a chair and surrounded by footmen, maidservants and numerous obsequious hotel staff, ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2019 )
The Shahnameh by Hamid Dabashi
epub |eng | | Author:Hamid Dabashi

WHEN HISTORY REMEMBERS ITSELF From this point forward, we begin to see the unfolding drama of world history dreamed inside the memorial consciousness of the Shahnameh, in what we can ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 26,2019 )
True West by Sam Shepard
epub |eng | 2018-02-25 | Author:Sam Shepard [Sam Shepard]

Austin Course there’s no contract yet. Nothing’s final until it’s on paper. Lee It’s final, all right. There’s no way he’s gonna’ back out of it now. We gambled for ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 26,2019 )
Fast and Loose by Edith Wharton
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:Edith Wharton

Chapter X At Interlaken “Through those days Youth, love & hope walked smiling hand in hand.” Old Play. It is certain that in this world the smallest wires work the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory February 26,2019 )
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L Kern
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Adam L Kern

‘thanks for carrying on / while I was away from my wife!’ / said unknowingly to wa shirazu / sate rusuchū wa / osewasama Author unnamed. This verse appears in ...
( Category: Love Poems February 26,2019 )
Beat Punks by Victor Bockris
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Victor Bockris [Bockris, Victor]

VICTOR BOCKRIS: Are there only a handful of really good film makers in the world today? NICOLAS ROEG: There are a lot, but only a handful are being looked at ...
( Category: United States February 26,2019 )
New Men by Casey John A. Jr.;
epub |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Casey, John A., Jr.; [Casey Jr., John A.]

Figure 13. “An American Goddess Between Veterans of Two Wars.” Engraving. May 28, 1899. New Orleans Daily Picayune. The March 16, 1898, issue of the New York Times, reprints under ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 22,2019 )

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