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My Generation: Collected Nonfiction by William Styron
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

[Written by Styron for This Quiet Dust and published first in the 1982 edition of that collection.] The Joint Twenty years ago, when he was thirty, a talented white college-educated ...
( Category: United States August 8,2018 )
Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays by William Styron
epub |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

—Traces (Indiana Historical Society), SPRING 1995 (originally delivered as an address at the Indianapolis–Marion County Public Library, 14 APRIL 1994) LES AMIS DU PRÉSIDENT IN 1948, WHEN I HAD JUST ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 8,2018 )
Sophie's Choice: A Novel by William Styron
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

Chapter Eleven “SON THE NORTH BELIEVES it has a veritable patent on virtue,” my father said, gingerly stroking with a forefinger his shiny new black eye. “But of course, the ...
( Category: Literary August 8,2018 )
Secret Vice, A by R. R. Tolkien J.; Fimi Dimitra; Higgins Andrew
epub |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:R. R. Tolkien, J.; Fimi, Dimitra; Higgins, Andrew [Tolkien, J.R.R.]

PART II ‘Essay on Phonetic Symbolism’ This essay (MS Tolkien 24, folios 3–7 and 9) was written in blue ink on eight leaves of ‘Oxford paper’ torn out from examination ...
( Category: Philosophy August 8,2018 )
Cheat by Bill Burr & Joe DeRosa
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Bill Burr & Joe DeRosa [Burr, Bill]

The Fuckup That our hero didn’t get caught does not matter. There was no skill involved in this maneuver. This story is basically the cheating equivalent to when a basketball ...
( Category: Humor August 8,2018 )
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould
epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

Jensen devotes most of his book to showing that S-bias does not affect mental tests (or that S-bias can be corrected when it does exist). Yet I found nothing surprising ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 8,2018 )
Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Gertrude Stein

STANZA XVIII She asked could I be taught to be allowed And I said yes oh yes I had forgotten him And she said does any or do any change ...
( Category: Poetry August 8,2018 )
The Haiku Form by Joan Giroux
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Giroux

Apart from the fact that "a deep resonance" is not the meaning of mizu no oto, and the original does not mention the silence, this dignified translation does not faithfully ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 7,2018 )
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Barthes Roland
epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Barthes, Roland [Barthes, Roland]

28 The Winter Garden Photograph There I was, alone in the apartment where she had died, looking at these pictures of my mother, one by one under the lamp, gradually ...
( Category: Photography & Video August 7,2018 )
5 Steps to a 5 by Barbara Murphy
epub |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Barbara Murphy

There Is So Much to Know, How Can I Prepare Myself for the Exam? First, don’t panic. You’re in an AP English Language course, and you will have a year ...
( Category: European August 7,2018 )
Hermeneutics by John D. Caputo
epub |eng | 2017-12-03 | Author:John D. Caputo

Weak Thought Vattimo gives another twist to the history of nihilism, one that is closer to Heidegger than to Nietzsche, and closer still to Gadamer. The history of nihilism is ...
( Category: Philosophy August 6,2018 )
Dream in Shakespeare by Marjorie Garber
epub |eng | 1974-08-04 | Author:Marjorie Garber

Othello: O monstrous! monstrous! Iago: Nay, this was but his dream. Othello: But this denoted a foregone conclusion, ’Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream. Iago: And ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays August 5,2018 )
Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie Garber
epub |eng | 2008-12-08 | Author:Marjorie Garber

BUT IT IS OFTEN OUTSIDE the theater that the most virulent use of the play, and of Shylock, is made. And not only in Nazi Germany and Austria. An example ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 5,2018 )
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-10 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

SHE HAD DRESSED like a native woman for the journey, and her complexion was now so darkened by the sun and the wind that she did not expect to provoke ...
( Category: Contemporary August 5,2018 )
Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Jonathan Meades

the curse of bilbao Groinwich! Potentialising potential. Scrofcastle! Going Places. Smeltbury! Enabling inspiration. Dundee! City of discovery. Bubochester! A runway to creativity. Griminster! We’re an energy pathway. Swarfield! Trailblazing connectivity. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 4,2018 )

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