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Essential Essays by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Adrienne Rich

THE EYE OF THE OUTSIDER Elizabeth Bishop’s Complete Poems, 1927–1979 (1983) I knew Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry very well before I ever met her, and I always knew the poems better ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 7,2018 )
Madeleine L'Engle Herself by Madeleine L'engle
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Madeleine L'engle

TELLING MYTHIC STORIES I read an article that discusses just why J. R. R. Tolkien is so enormously popular with high school and college age students. One young reader says ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 7,2018 )
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Gore Vidal

* * * — Sullivan was reading when Jim came upstairs. He looked a ghostly figure beneath the mosquito netting. “Have a nice time?” “What do you mean by that?” ...
( Category: Contemporary November 7,2018 )
Islands of Protest by Davinder L. Bhowmik
epub |eng | | Author:Davinder L. Bhowmik

Notes 1. Most critics agree that this refers to Iriomote Island, where Sakiyama was born and raised. The island that Takako is visiting is most likely Kohama Island, located less ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 7,2018 )
Melmoth the Wanderer 1820 by Charles Robert Maturin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Charles Robert Maturin

*Written mountains, i.e. rocks inscribed with characters recordative of some remarkable event, are well known to every oriental traveller. I think it is in the notes of Dr Coke, on ...
( Category: Classics November 7,2018 )
Margaret Atwood by Shannon Hengen & Ashley Thomson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Shannon Hengen & Ashley Thomson [Hengen, Shannon & Thomson, Ashley]

~ 1998 ~ Atwood’s Works 2148. Alias Grace. Amsterdam: Ooievaar, 1998. Dutch translation by Gerda Baardman and Tjadine Stheeman. 2149. Alias Grace. Barcelona [Spain]: Ediciones B, 1998. Spanish translation by ...
( Category: Women's Studies November 6,2018 )
Reading Ovid by Peter Jones
epub |eng | 2007-03-07 | Author:Peter Jones [Jones, Peter]

Notes 55–64: Ovid at once establishes the location of the story: in the East (56), in Babylon (58). Its walls of baked mud (58) caused some comment in countries like ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books by Alfred Habegger
epub |eng | 2001-12-15 | Author:Alfred Habegger [Habegger, Alfred]

Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous – An Incense Beyond Nescessity – Fame of Myself to lack – Although My Name be else supreme – This ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )
Charm by Joseph Epstein
epub |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:Joseph Epstein [Epstein, Joseph]

Chapter IX Vulgar Charmers One tends to think of the charming as suave, urbane, refined, elegant, worthy not only of admiration but, the perhaps far-fetched hope is, of emulation. Not ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 6,2018 )
Queer Beats by Regina Marler
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Regina Marler [Marler, Regina]

Brion Gysin from Cut-ups: A Project for Disastrous Success [The queer polymath Brion Gysin was a friend of Paul Bowles in Tangier in the mid-1950s and had a restaurant there ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
epub |eng | | Author:Carol Ann Duffy

The Devil’s Wife 1. DIRT The Devil was one of the men at work. Different. Fancied himself. Looked at the girls in the office as though they were dirt. Didn’t ...
( Category: Poetry November 6,2018 )
Redheads Die Quickly by Gil Brewer
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Gil Brewer

( Category: United States November 6,2018 )
Sleeping with the Lights On by Jones Darryl
epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:Jones, Darryl

You will notice that Pliny’s primary method of taxonomy here is dietary; beast-men are monstrous because they violate food taboos. Baring-Gould also recognized that lycanthropy was a psychological as well ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig
epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Laird Koenig [Koenig, Laird]

11 SHE FOUGHT to cover her rush of fear. She fought, too, to make some sense of what had happened. The policeman had come to this same door, but he ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 6,2018 )
The Last Love of George Sand by Evelyne Bloch-Dano
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Chapter Fourteen “MY SOUL HAS GROWN OLD AND WEARY” The coincidence between Nini’s passing and the completion of Story of My Life was striking. The last words were addressed to ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 6,2018 )

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