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Jacob's Room (Penguin Classics) by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | 1992-08-14 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

Let us consider letters – how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized by the postmark – for to see one’s ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2018 )
P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters by Paola Calvetti
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Paola Calvetti [Calvetti, Paola]

The antiques dealer is on my side. Filippo Borghetti is a refined homosexual, at peace with himself after marrying at twenty and divorcing at twenty-five; he now forms a happy ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 13,2018 )
01 - The Wind Dancer by Iris Johansen
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-02-01 | Author:Iris Johansen

Chapter Twelve. I do not wish to look at one more piece of goods," Sanchia said firmly as she turned away from the shop of a leather craftsman. Lorenzo halted ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense September 13,2018 )
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. le Guin
epub |eng | 2013-01-14 | Author:Ursula K. le Guin [Guin, Ursula K. Le]

Division of labor between the sexes: This phrase means only that in all or most known societies men and women do different kinds of work; but since it is very ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 13,2018 )
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip by Martell Nevin
epub |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Martell, Nevin [Martell, Nevin]

CHAPTER 7 This is How You Disappear Calvin’s the square peg in the round hole. He will not let society conform him or water him down. He doesn’t always win, ...
( Category: Comic Strips September 13,2018 )
The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
epub |eng | 2018-07-17 | Author:Raymond Chandler [Chandler, Raymond]

Director Howard Hawks’s personal version confirms receipt of Chandler’s telegram stating that he didn’t know. So Hawks had his scriptwriters add a piece of dialogue in which a detective says, ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 12,2018 )
A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr
epub |eng | 2017-09-10 | Author:Gregory Orr

Nouns connect us to the world through Naming, and that connection is a source of wonder and delight. You can see it in its naïve glory and glee in the ...
( Category: Poetry September 11,2018 )
The Freedom of the Poet by John Berryman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Berryman [Berryman, John]

Cowperwood is not a villain, in his master’s view. Let’s begin with that. Nor is there anything tragic about his defeats. One does not even suffer them. His second marriage ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 11,2018 )
A Mirror for Lovers by Zak William F.;
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Zak, William F.; [Zak, William F.]

The day 49 dreaded has arrived in 87. The defenses the speaker erected earlier within which to “insconce” (49:9) himself have, predictably, been completely overrun. As 49 vowed, when the ...
( Category: Poetry September 10,2018 )
On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior
epub |eng | 2018-06-18 | Author:Karen Swallow Prior

TOO MANY LOVES When it comes to love, we who communicate with the English language are at a great disadvantage. We have essentially one word to cover a wide variety ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 10,2018 )
Divine Invasion by Philip k Dick
epub |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Philip k Dick [Dick, Philip k]

Chapter 11 Reaching out, Herb Asher took the boy in his arms. He hugged him tight. "And this is Zina," Elias Tate said. "Emmanuel's friend." He took the girl by ...
( Category: Historical September 10,2018 )
Camp Austen_My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan by Ted Scheinman
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Ted Scheinman

THREE Table Talk There are two traits in her character which are pleasing; namely, she admires Camilla, and drinks no cream in her tea. —Jane Austen in a letter to ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 10,2018 )
Capital, vol. 3 (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx
epub |eng | 1992-08-27 | Author:Karl Marx [Marx, Karl]

Chapter 30: Money Capital and Real Capital: I The only difficult questions which we are now coming on to in connection with the credit system are as follows. Firstly, the ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 10,2018 )
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet by Stephen Weiner & Will Eisner
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Stephen Weiner & Will Eisner

Nite Owl and Silk Spectre chat about nuclear war and what happened earlier in the evening in issue seven of Watchmen As he had done with Steve Bissette while working ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 10,2018 )
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
epub, pdf |eng | 1977-09-08 | Author:Junichiro Tanizaki

The darkness in which the Nō is shrouded and the beauty that emerges from it make a distinct world of shadows which today can be seen only on the stage; ...
( Category: Philosophy September 9,2018 )

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