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French Orientalist Literature in Algeria, 1845–1882 by Sage Goellner
epub |eng | | Author:Sage Goellner

( Category: History & Criticism May 25,2018 )
Going For Infinity by Anderson Poul
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anderson, Poul [Anderson, Poul]

X There were other series. They were never planned beforehand, it was just that one story would suggest more, exploring the theme further. The Maurai chronicles began with a novelette, ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 23,2018 )
Say No to Placenta Pics by Jillian M. Parsons
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Jillian M. Parsons

Thank God That’s Over Once the baby shower has wrapped, let it die. They come and go in a blink, and once it’s all cleaned up and the handouts are ...
( Category: Humor May 22,2018 )
The Fire and the Tale by Agamben Giorgio
epub |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Agamben, Giorgio [Agamben, Giorgio]

On the Difficulty of Reading It is not about reading and the risks that it entails that I would like to talk but rather of an underlying risk, that is, ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 22,2018 )
50 Essays by Samuel Cohen
epub |eng | 2016-11-04 | Author:Samuel Cohen [Cohen, Samuel]

The first time I went to Washington, D.C., was on the edge of the summer when I was supposed to stop being a child. At least that’s what they said ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 22,2018 )
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 by Christopher Isherwood
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Isherwood

October 27. Yesterday, at 8:15 in the evening, we docked at Lisbon. (We made the landfall about four hours earlier, when the hills around Sintra appeared over the horizon, while ...
( Category: LGBT May 22,2018 )
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods by William Logan
epub |eng | | Author:William Logan

smiled to see the blandness of the leaves— so many so lascivious and still.134 It took another decade, until “This Is Just to Say” ended “so sweet / and so ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 22,2018 )
Proust's Duchess by Caroline Weber
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Caroline Weber [Weber, Caroline]

Porto-Riche began his attempt to woo Élisabeth by leaving unsigned love poems on her prie-dieu at the Église de la Madeleine. Porto-Riche intended to keep his identity a secret from ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 22,2018 )
Iago by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Bloom

CHAPTER 6 I Will Chop Her into Messes. Cuckold Me! If you have lost your faith in the war god, you yet retain profound interest in his degradation. Milton’s Satan, ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 22,2018 )
Pleasing Myself by Frank Kermode
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Frank Kermode

This letter is profoundly and deliberately offensive. Of course Russell probably knew that Lawrence, particularly in the war years, was prone to writing intemperate letters, but this must still have ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 21,2018 )
Irish Crime Fiction by Brian Cliff
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Brian Cliff

23Hughes, Wrong, 52. 24Hughes, Wrong, 127. By City of Lost Girls, the fifth novel in the series, Loy is still sounding this note, if more numbly so: ‘In Dublin, it ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 21,2018 )
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt
epub |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Stephen Greenblatt [Greenblatt, Stephen]

Eight MADNESS IN GREAT ONES RICHARD III AND MACBETH are criminals who come to power by killing the legitimate rulers who stand in their way. But Shakespeare was also interested ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 21,2018 )
Voltaire by Voltaire's Romances
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Voltaire's Romances [Romances, Voltaire's]

XI. AMAZAN AND FORMOSANTA BECOME RECONCILED. The guides had no difficulty in following the route the princess had taken. There was nothing else talked of but her and her large ...
( Category: Humor & Satire May 18,2018 )
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
epub, azw3 |eng | 1981-10-23 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

Who Is Voltaire? Voltaire is a lecturer at the university, a witty and aggressive young man whose eyes glare maliciously into the faces of his adversaries—reason enough for his nickname. ...
( Category: Literary May 18,2018 )
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works by Pushkin Alexander; Falen James E.; Emerson Caryl
epub |eng | 2007-05-18 | Author:Pushkin, Alexander; Falen, James E.; Emerson, Caryl

You mount the dais of the Russian throne, Till you have extirpated Godunóv, I’ll hear from you no honeyed words of love. (She leaves.) PRETENDER Far easier to battle with ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays May 18,2018 )

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