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Irish Stories and Folklore by Stephen Brennan
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Stephen Brennan

THE COMING OF FINN BY STANDISH JAMES O’GRADY It was the Eve of Samhain, which we Christians call All Hallows’ Eve. The King of Ireland, Conn, the Hundred-Fighter, sat at ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 9,2018 )
Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

CHAPTER ELEVEN Hot Brandy and Water On the conclusion of The Woman in White he made plans to escape from his desk. He first went down to Gad’s Hill Place ...
( Category: Historical December 9,2018 )
Visions and Revisions by Dale Peck
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Dale Peck [Peck, Dale]

11 Tony Kushner, no stranger to Brechtian dialectics, is fighting the same cathartic entropy I mentioned earlier when, at the end of Angels in America, Prior shoos the audience from ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 9,2018 )
The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Walker Percy

Once upon a time is a referring phrase which clearly specifies its world for the listener. That in That is a balloon is a referring word which indicates something being ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 9,2018 )
Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini
epub |eng | 1987-12-08 | Author:Bill Pronzini

For Murder Could Not Kill by Gregory Baxter (1934): If there is a man whom murder could not kill, he must bear a charmed life, have miraculous powers, or play ...
( Category: Mystery December 9,2018 )
Patchwork by Bobbie Ann Mason
epub |eng | 2018-12-08 | Author:Bobbie Ann Mason

The music from the night before was still playing in Beverly’s head when she got home Sunday afternoon. It was exhilarating, like something she knew well but hadn’t thought of ...
( Category: United States December 9,2018 )
Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson by Smith Martha Nell
azw3 |eng | 2010-07-04 | Author:Smith, Martha Nell [Smith, Martha Nell]

Superficially, this appears sadomasochistic, but Dickinson quickly overturns the obvious. Fusing images of giddy, presumably literary (signified by the quotation marks) nature and celebration, then oxymoronically presenting a usually destructive ...
( Category: Women's Studies December 9,2018 )
Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Philip Larkin [Philip Larkin and James Booth]

Very much love, d.o.c. P. 1 Amis never visited Larkin in Hull, travelling for his funeral in 1985 only as far as St Mary’s, Cottingham. 2 Supplies of fuel from ...
( Category: Poetry December 8,2018 )
Shakespeare's Style by Maurice Charney
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Maurice Charney

Chapter 17 Jaques as Satiric Observer in As You Like It Shakespeare has a number of characters who function as satiric observers and commentators in their plays: Lucio in Measure ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 8,2018 )
Theory by Dionne Brand
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Dionne Brand

I keep the photograph of Odalys face down on the top bookshelf. I am afraid of her spirit, to be frank. Odalys believed in spirits. I’m not superstitious in the ...
( Category: Literary December 8,2018 )
The Feminist Spectator As Critic by Dolan Jill;
epub |eng | | Author:Dolan, Jill;

Fantasy as Liberation: Lesbian Performance and Sexuality The structure of desire, by necessity, differs across sexual preference. Pornographic narratives or any kind of performance for sexual partners of the same ...
( Category: Women's Studies December 8,2018 )
A Christmas Revelation by Anne Perry
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Anne Perry

* * * But Squeaky did not sleep well, even though he was tired. What had he got himself into? He was probably going to discover that Eloise and her ...
( Category: Mystery December 8,2018 )
Homeland Security Ate My Speech by Ariel Dorfman
epub |eng | 2017-09-27 | Author:Ariel Dorfman

14. THE TRUTH THAT MADE HER FREE Early on the morning of Dec. 3, 1980, a farmer on a remote road in El Salvador spotted four bodies lying in a ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 8,2018 )
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 2014-11-09 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

. . . it presented itself as a pleasure to him to do the very thing that would cause Mr. Tulliver the most deadly mortification, — and a pleasure of ...
( Category: Anthropology December 8,2018 )
Silly Jokes for Silly Kids. Children's joke book age 5-12 by Willy Silly
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-12 | Author:Willy, Silly [Willy, Silly]

Q: What do you do if your dog chews your dictionary? A: Take the words out of his mouth! Q: What do you call a thieving alligator? A: A crook-odile! ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 7,2018 )

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