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Oresteia (Hackett Classics) by Aeschylus
azw3 |eng | 1998-09-14 | Author:Aeschylus

—I’ll tell you this, we should raise the alarm, get the people to storm the palace! [1350] —No! We must go in now, catch them red-handed, while the blade is ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays December 6,2018 )
Kathy Acker by Kathy Acker
epub |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:Kathy Acker

LOTRINGER: Why used Rimbaud and Faulkner at all then? ACKER: I have to use other texts when I write. I mean, that’s just how I am. Now I’m using writers ...
( Category: Literary December 5,2018 )
Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics by Allewaert Monique
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Allewaert, Monique

Figure 10. Wifredo Lam, La jungla, 1943. Lam’s painting of the cane field at night emphasizes the disaggregation of the parahuman body, its entwinement with vegetable forces, and the power ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 30,2018 )
Theodore Roosevelt by Thomas Bailey
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Bailey

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men; their greed and arrogance, and the way in which they have unduly prospered by the help of the ablest lawyers, and ...
( Category: Historical November 30,2018 )
Red Holler by John Branscum
epub |eng | | Author:John Branscum [Branscum, John; Thomas, Wayne]

R. T. Smith The Carter Scratch What solitude and simmer gave birth to this sweet mix, one country woman strumming a duet, melody running the bass but the up-strings thumb-brushed ...
( Category: United States November 29,2018 )
The Spiritual Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth. Some thoughts always find us ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 29,2018 )
Horror Literature through History by Matt Cardin
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Cardin

“I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM” First published in 1967, Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” is a bleak, postapocalyptic story that takes place ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 29,2018 )
The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg Eva Claeson
epub | | 2012-11-27 | Author:Hjalmar Soderberg, Eva Claeson [Hjalmar Soderberg]

There was wet snow falling that evening in December. It would take ten minutes to walk to the Opera. Should he take a cab? An unnecessary expense… He walked, thinking ...
( Category: Contemporary November 28,2018 )
Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James
mobi | | 2009-12-01 | Author:P. D. James

It seems a little unjust to classify Agatha Christie's characters as being on the Punch level. She is more than that. She may draw them in clear outline with none ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2018 )
Garnet Lacey 03 by Romancing The Dead-2008
epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Romancing The Dead-2008 [Dead-2008, Romancing The]

Alison pulled herself up to her full height. “It’s forbidden.” “We’ll just watch,” Traci said, hopping on the balls of her feet with unrestrained glee. To me, she asked, “What ...
( Category: Fantasy November 27,2018 )
Collected Poems by Yeats W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1939
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 [Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939]

A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER ONCE more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle But Gregory’s wood ...
( Category: Poetry November 24,2018 )
Offering from the Conscious Body by Janet Adler
epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Janet Adler

A hummingbird, gorgeously green and suspended among the rosemary flowers, appears just as the six people come along the path. We marvel at her capacity to drink while suspended in ...
( Category: Performing Arts November 24,2018 )
Affective Ecocriticism by Kyle Bladow & Jennifer Ladino
epub |eng | | Author:Kyle Bladow & Jennifer Ladino

This passage hinges on how different affective dispositions radically shift perceptions of our surroundings, our environment. Thus the second and third paragraphs begin with ordinary declarative sentences that ring oddly ...
( Category: Mental Health November 24,2018 )
Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Taylor Bradford

Twenty-seven Alexis smiled to herself as she stared down at her engagement book, realizing it was a busy afternoon ahead. But then it was Wednesday, the day when she managed ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2018 )
The Jump by Author
epub |eng | 2018-11-21 | Author:Author

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 23,2018 )

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