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The Essentialist Villain by Mikko Tuhkanen
epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Mikko Tuhkanen

Time of the Aesthetic Even if its repeated collapse or undoing is “the constitutive sign of psychoanalytic thinking” (FrB 9)—a sign that indicates the “speculative” nature of Freud’s thought—it is ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction May 4,2018 )
Historical Noir by Barry Forshaw
epub |eng | 2018-01-17 | Author:Barry Forshaw [Forshaw, Barry]

ARMAND CABASSON (Napoleonic France) Armand Cabasson has written several highly accomplished detective novels set during the Napoleonic Wars which have been bestsellers in France. A typically engaging entry is The ...
( Category: Performing Arts May 4,2018 )
American Drama by Jacqueline Foertsch
epub |eng | | Author:Jacqueline Foertsch

Drama in Dialogue: Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun The conversation between these two classic mid-century works is dynamic and wide ranging. Despite their similar experimental ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 3,2018 )
An Appetite for Poetry by Frank Kermode
epub |eng | 2013-05-03 | Author:Frank Kermode

Chapter 6 Freud and Interpretation Those who honored a complete outsider like me with an invitation to give the Ernest Jones Lecture must have been well aware that the last ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 3,2018 )
The Best of the West by Anthology
epub |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

Blunt. Cold. Wordless. Bloodless. That was Carson Reddner. That was the image. It made sense, because the only moments of his thirty-seven years that the Territory had preserved in its ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 3,2018 )
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Mikhail Sholokhov

Chapter Ten Nineteen-sixteen. October. Night. Rain and wind. The trenches in the alder-grown marshes of Polesie. Barbed-wire entanglements in front. A freezing slush in the trenches. The wet sheet-iron of ...
( Category: Literary May 2,2018 )
The Laughter of Aphrodite by Peter Green
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Green [Green, Peter]

Strange and ironic prophecy. “Thank you,” she said, with a white little smile. “But it is you who need our prayers now, Sappho.” Then, with a formality that matched my ...
( Category: Contemporary May 2,2018 )
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
epub |eng | | Author:Nikolai Chernyshevsky

xvii. If an outsider had come to consult with Kirsanov about the position in which he found himself when he came to his senses, and if Kirsanov had been a ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 2,2018 )
Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things by Marcel Danesi
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marcel Danesi

Rome wasn’t built in a day (= advice to have patience) Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched (= advice to be cautious) An eye for an eye and a ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 2,2018 )
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk
epub |eng | 2016-12-02 | Author:Nicholas Cronk

Box 4 How a Voltaire poem became known I had the satisfaction of seeing the most extraordinary man of the age … : need I add the name of Voltaire? ...
( Category: Humor May 1,2018 )
Annals by Tacitus
epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Tacitus [Tacitus]

Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature May 1,2018 )
0374256926 (N) by Jack Viertel
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jack Viertel [Viertel, Jack]

12. Intermission When I was first taken to the theater, in 1955, intermission refreshments were limited to a watery form of orange drink served in a waxed cardboard carton. I ...
( Category: Performing Arts April 28,2018 )
Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre by Michael Knox Beran
azw |eng | 2015-08-15 | Author:Michael Knox Beran [Beran, Michael Knox]

Nearly an hour passed before Greenacre’s body was cut down from the gallows and taken back into Newgate. It was buried, under cover of darkness, in Birdcage Walk. Sarah Gale ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 28,2018 )
Fathers and Children by Turgenev Ivan
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Turgenev, Ivan

1 See note on p. 12. 1 In French in the original. XVIII ON the following day when Odintsova came down to breakfast Bazarov sat for a long time bent ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense April 27,2018 )
The Waves (Oxford World's Classics) by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Virginia Woolf

The sun had risen to its full height. It was no longer half seen and guessed at, from hints and gleams, as if a girl couched on her green-sea mattress ...
( Category: Classics April 27,2018 )

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