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Thoreau and the Language of Trees by Richard Higgins
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Higgins

The white pine was also central to Thoreau’s work as a naturalist. He marveled at the ingenious ways it wafts its pine seeds through the air. The thin sack that ...
( Category: United States April 10,2018 )
A Susan Sontag Reader by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Susan Sontag

Godard It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that, whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )
Think, Pig! by Rabaté Jean-Michel;
epub |eng | 2016-04-10 | Author:Rabaté, Jean-Michel;

Beauty and Torture We have seen in the discussion of aesthetics that there is just a step from Watt’s serial verbal permutations to the contemplation of Beauty, a step that ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )
Democracy and Poetry by Robert Penn Warren
mobi, epub |eng | 1975-06-03 | Author:Robert Penn Warren

If history, as J. H. Plumb grimly speculated in The Death of the Past, cannot survive as a study, then its role “as the interpreter of men’s destiny will be ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )
Crash Course for the GRE by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2017-07-11 | Author:Princeton Review

Quadrilaterals Four-sided figure—Any figure with four sides has 360°. That includes rectangles, squares, and parallelograms (four-sided figures made out of two sets of parallel lines). Parallelogram—A four-sided figure consisting of ...
( Category: GRE April 10,2018 )
Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction (2nd Edition) by David G. Hartwell
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:David G. Hartwell [Hartwell, David G.]

8 SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS CAN’T WRITE FOR SOUR APPLES Any bright high school sophomore can identify all the things that are wrong about Van Vogt.… But the challenge to criticism ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 10,2018 )
Troy by Homer
epub |eng | 2018-02-16 | Author:Homer [Samuel Butler]

BOOK XV Jove awakes, tells Apollo to heal Hector, and the Trojans again become victorious. But when their flight had taken them past the trench and the set stakes, and ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )
Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Paul Kincaid

APPROACHING THE WORLDGOD It was more than a year after Look to Windward appeared in the United Kingdom before it was published by Pocket Books in the United States. Consequently, ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 10,2018 )
Emerson by Robert D. Richardson Jr
epub |eng | 2015-04-10 | Author:Robert D. Richardson Jr.

we talk better than we are wont. We have the nimblest fancy, a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time. For long hours we can ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 10,2018 )
A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith (Tupelo Press Lineage Series) by Kaminsky Ilya & Towler Katherine
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Kaminsky, Ilya & Towler, Katherine [Kaminsky, Ilya]

Rachel is a trickster. Samson is a psychopathic killer. David is a brilliant politician. Solomon makes trade not war, and becomes the lover of Sheba. And so on. But the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 10,2018 )
James Joyce's 'Work in Progress' by Hulle Dirk Van;
epub |eng | | Author:Hulle, Dirk Van; [Dirk Van Hulle]

Gramophone Record In autumn 1927, the Paris Times (19 November 1927) reported that Joyce had ‘entertained at his home a few of his friends with a reading from his “work ...
( Category: Poetry April 10,2018 )
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature by J. Thomas Rimer
epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:J. Thomas Rimer

II. Miwa Kiriko The actress Miwa Kiriko sits next to Kusano Hitoshi, the university student in the liberal arts. They are in the Roof Garden, which doubles as an observation ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )
The Dedalus Book of English Decadence by James Willsher
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:James Willsher

Thy skin changes country and colour, And shrivels or swells to a snakes’. Let it brighten and bloat and grow duller, We know it, the flames and the flakes, Red ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )
The Seeds of Things by Goldberg Jonathan;
epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:Goldberg, Jonathan;

The Falt of My Wrighting These “sprawling” letters, to use the adjective that Anna Battigelli offers in the latest printed transcription of them, reveal a hand characterized by wayward letter ...
( Category: Philosophy April 10,2018 )
Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce
epub |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:Ambrose Bierce [Bierce, Ambrose]

An Unfinished Race JAMES BURNE WORSON was a shoemaker who lived in Leamington, Warwickshire, England. He had a little shop in one of the by-ways leading off the road to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies April 10,2018 )

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