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The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Allen Mandelbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Allen Mandelbaum

“The ruin of the grove and their own loss have stunned the Dryad sisters; dressed in black, the mourners go to Ceres, begging her to punish Erysichthon. She consents; and ...
( Category: Poetry April 25,2018 )
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy by William Irwin
epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:William Irwin [Irwin, William]

NOTES 1 Both Plato and Alcibiades were students of the great Athenian philosopher Socrates. 2 Plato, “Seventh Letter,” 324b-324c. 3 Ibid., 324d. 4 Ibid., 325a. 5 This term is often ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 24,2018 )
The Tibetan Book of Everyday Wisdom by Jinpa Thupten
epub |eng | | Author:Jinpa Thupten

The colophon indicates five particulars: the text that was composed, the ones who requested for it, the author, the place of composition, and the scribe. Once again, the author prays ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 24,2018 )
Sōseki by John Nathan
epub |eng | | Author:John Nathan

( Category: History & Criticism April 24,2018 )
Lear by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Bloom

CHAPTER 11 But That Thy Strange Mutations Make Us Hate Thee, / Life Would Not Yield to Age The storm is over. In the new day Edgar moves on, a ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 24,2018 )
The Seasons by Thomson James
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Thomson, James

Autumn The Argument The subject proposed. Addressed to Mr. Onslow. A prospect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praise of industry raised by that view. Reaping. A tale ...
( Category: Poetry April 24,2018 )
Filmspeak by Tomarken Edward;
epub |eng | | Author:Tomarken, Edward; [Tomarken, Edward L.]

This “tigress” mother reminds us of Hanna wounding the young Michael by asserting that he is incapable of upsetting her because she does not care about him. Lacan explains that ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
Works Well with Others by Ross McCammon
epub |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Ross McCammon

* * * The first thing you want to establish at a work party is the thing we always want to establish when we are working: the freedom to leave ...
( Category: Business Culture April 23,2018 )
The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides by Gary Lachman
epub |eng | 2013-02-06 | Author:Gary Lachman [Lachman, Gary]

Ten Suicides Yukio Mishima Probably the most spectacular literary suicide, certainly of recent times, was that of the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, who was born Kimitake Hiraoka on 14 January ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
Muriel Rukeyser's the Book of the Dead by Tim Dayton
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Dayton

This is the gentleman from Montana. —I’m a child, I’m leaning from a bedroom window, clipping the rose that climbs upon the wall, the tea roses, and the red roses, ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
The Betty Book by Stewart Edward White
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stewart Edward White [White, Stewart Edward]

"Spirit dissolves the natural so curiously!" commented Betty one time. "Its substance seems to have a dematerializing effect on the body--it gets not so solid, more flexible. It makes it ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Edward J. Ruppelt

The New Project Grudge.121 to leave again. This time it was for New York. A high priority wire had come into ATIC describing how a Navy pilot had chased a ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 23,2018 )
Great Expectations by Robert Gottlieb
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Gottlieb

PART TWO 1870–1933 After Dickens’s death AFTER DICKENS’S DEATH WHEN DICKENS DIED at the age of fifty-eight, in June 1870, only four of his children were in England. Dora and ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
Critic in the Modern World by Ley James;
epub |eng | | Author:Ley, James;

5 ‘I do like the West and wish it would stop declining’1 Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) No discussion of Lionel Trilling can avoid the vexed term liberal. It is a word ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination by Estok Simon C. White Jonathan Wang I-Chun & I-Chun Wang & Jonathan White
epub |eng | 2016-04-23 | Author:Estok, Simon C.,White, Jonathan,Wang, I-Chun & I-Chun Wang & Jonathan White

As Benjamin wrote these lines, Nazism was rolling across Europe and seemed unstoppable. Wherever Nazism was, there were ruins and deaths. Benjamin put forth his critique of modernity with a ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 23,2018 )

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