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Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great (Oxford World's Classics) by Plutarch
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Plutarch

[9] Then, convinced that the long-anticipated moment had arrived, they ran en masse to the tyrant’s house to set it on fire. The towering flames that arose from the burning ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 11,2018 )
Letters From the Earth by Mark Twain
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

Number of words, 320; necessary ones, 220: words wasted by the generous spendthrift, 100. In our day those 100 unnecessary words would have to come out. We will take them ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq by Peebles Stacey
epub |eng | | Author:Peebles, Stacey

Fighting for a New Community In the years since Vietnam and its cultural aftermath, the masculine collective seems to have taken a hit, at least as seen and understood in ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 10,2018 )
Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2008-08-05 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

Nurse and Patient And Charley did not die. She flutteringly and slowly turned the dangerous point, after long lingering there, and then began to mend. The hope that never had ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
Selected Short Fiction by DICKENS CHARLES
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:DICKENS, CHARLES

(I don’t know why, but this fact of the Devil’s expressing himself in rhyme was peculiarly trying to me.) Chips looked up when he heard the words, and there he ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 10,2018 )
Dombey and Son (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2008-05-08 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2006-04-27 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

Coming home from Church The Major very hoarsely indicates his approval. Mr Carker, bending his head forward over the table in the direction of Cousin Feenix, smiles and nods a ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

Mr and Mrs Henry Gowan. From France to Italy. To which he added, in a small, complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Charles Dickens

“Is his memory impaired with age? It is to be expected now,” said Mr. Redlaw, turning to the son, and speaking lower. “Not a morsel of it, sir,” replied Mr. ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays August 10,2018 )
Night Walks by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Charles Dickens

A Small Star in the East I had been looking, yesternight, through the famous ‘Dance of Death,’ and to-day the grim old woodcuts arose in my mind with the new ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 10,2018 )
Martin Chuzzlewit (Oxford World's Classics) by Dickens Charles
epub |eng | 1982-12-09 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER XXVI AN UNEXPECTED MEETING, AND A PROMISING PROSPECT THE laws of sympathy between beards and birds, and the secret source of that attraction which frequently impels a shaver of ...
( Category: Classics August 10,2018 )
David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2007-10-25 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

‘I justify nothing. I make no counter-accusations. But I am sorry to repeat, it is impossible. Such a marriage would irretrievably blight my son’s career, and ruin his prospects. Nothing ...
( Category: World Literature August 10,2018 )
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens by Dickens Charles; Hartley Jenny;
epub |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Dickens, Charles; Hartley, Jenny;

C.D. 1 The news of her elopement with Steerforth comes in ch. 31, which CD was about to start writing. 2 CD referred to it as his ‘favourite child’ in ...
( Category: World Literature August 10,2018 )
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 1999-08-09 | Author:Larry McMurtry

2 THE FIRST book I read that belonged indubitably to world literature was Don Quixote. How I came by it, or exactly when, or what edition I read, I cannot ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 10,2018 )
My Silver Planet by Daniel Tiffany
epub |eng | 2014-08-09 | Author:Daniel Tiffany

Bad Infinity In the Cantos, Pound synthesized the modalities of epic, kitsch, and avant-garde as a way of producing a utopian vision of cultural and political totality. By the mid-1930s, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 10,2018 )

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