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Three Lives by Oliver Matuschek
epub |eng | 2012-08-03 | Author:Oliver Matuschek [Oliver Matuschek]

A few months later Zweig was on a reading tour in Germany—to “sing for his supper”, as he himself liked to put it—and he had left home in the best ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 4,2018 )
Keep the Apidistra Flying... by George Orwell
epub |eng | 1973-03-15 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

'Oh! you know what I mean!' His heart shrank. He did know what she meant; but he had never thought of it till this moment. And of course--oh, yes!--he ought ...
( Category: Classics August 3,2018 )
The People and the Books by Adam Kirsch
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Kirsch

THE MAIN BODY of the Zohar takes the form of a verse-by-verse commentary on the Torah, with the bulk of the text dealing with the books of Genesis and Exodus. ...
( Category: Judaism August 2,2018 )
The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution by Rivera Sun
epub |eng | 2013-08-08 | Author:Rivera Sun [Sun, Rivera]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN . . . . . Cybermonk Extraordinaire The signs were everywhere! Bumper stickers, round decals stuck behind stop signs, discreet emblems on the corners of fliers; images of ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 2,2018 )
Lovecraft and a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-26 | Author:S. T. Joshi

IV. Studies of Individual Works Who Wrote “The Mound”? In Zealia Brown Reed Bishop’s oftentimes fantastic memoir, “H. P. Lovecraft: A Pupil’s View,” she declares expressly that Frank Belknap Long ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 2,2018 )
Deleuze and Futurism by Palmer Helen;
epub |eng | | Author:Palmer, Helen;

The above description is Deleuze at his most Jakobsonian, and is extremely reminiscent of Jakobson’s famous statement that the ‘poetic function’ projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of ...
( Category: Philosophy August 2,2018 )
The Deep Zoo by Rikki Ducornet
epub |eng | | Author:Rikki Ducornet [Ducornet, Rikki]

You will recall that in his Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant proposes that each one of us “always act in such a way that you can also will ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 2,2018 )
The Collected Poems by Yeats W. B
mobi |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Yeats, W. B. [Yeats, W. B.]

COLONUS’ PRAISE Chorus. Come praise Colonus’ horses, and come praise The wine-dark of the wood’s intricacies, The nightingale that deafens daylight there, If daylight ever visit where, Unvisited by tempest ...
( Category: Poetry August 2,2018 )
Threads of Silk (The Silk House Series) by Chaikin Linda Lee
mobi |eng | 2009-05-25 | Author:Chaikin, Linda Lee [Chaikin, Linda Lee]

“MARQUIS VENDÔME IS ARRIVING NOW, Mademoiselle Rachelle,” Nenette called from the window. “Ooh, Chevalier Gallaudet is with him — and others — these monsieurs I have not seen before . ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 2,2018 )
Herman Melville by Thompson Graham;
epub |eng | | Author:Thompson, Graham;

4 The “Unbounded Treasures” of Magazine Paratexts Reading Melville’s magazine writing as pioneer readers once read it in the 1850s is no longer possible. Contemporary critics cannot recreate, for want ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 2,2018 )
THE SELF AND ITS PLEASURES by Carolyn J. Dean
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Carolyn J. Dean

Perceau’s account uses many different and by now familiar rhetorical strategies to diminish Sade’s criminal responsibility. Perceau portrays Keller as fundamentally complicitous and, in so doing, manages to accuse her, ...
( Category: Philosophy August 1,2018 )
Aubrey's Brief Lives by John Aubrey
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John Aubrey

EDWARD HERBERT: LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY * * * [Born 1583. Philosopher and historian. At the age of sixteen, he married a kinswoman four years his senior, while he was ...
( Category: Historical August 1,2018 )
Inventing Afterlives by Regina M. Janes
epub |eng | 2018-07-30 | Author:Regina M. Janes

When I came again to myself I found I was floating in water. Because I was also in pain I clawed at what seemed its cause, but scratching water had ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 1,2018 )
The Unknown Unknown by Mark Forsyth
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark Forsyth

THE GHOST IN THE BOOKSHOP Bibliomancy works (or seems to work) because we can’t help but find God in random things. It’s that moment of discovery, in the back of ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 31,2018 )
My Days: A Memoir by R. K. Narayan
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:R. K. Narayan [Narayan, R. K.]

For the next three days, sitting beside my grandmother, I wrote and soon produced several pages of interesting anecdotes and a variety of imaginary stories centering around matrimonial life: about ...
( Category: Memoirs July 31,2018 )

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