Home > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism
History & Criticism
Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature (Empire and After) by Anthony Kaldellis
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-12 | Author:Anthony Kaldellis [Kaldellis, Anthony]

CHAPTER 5 Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature An Introduction to the Palaiologan Period and Its Sources In 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade captured Constantinople and set about the conquest ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 4,2018 )
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel
epub |eng | 2008-03-31 | Author:John Kessel [Kessel, John]

Fourteen They found the radiation shelter midway through the tunnel, closed themselves inside, stripped off their suits, drank some water, breathed the cool air. They crowded in the tiny stone ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 3,2018 )
41 Stories by O. Henry
epub |eng | | Author:O. Henry

The Princess and the Puma There had to be a king and queen, of course. The king was a terrible old man who wore six-shooters and spurs, and shouted in ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies April 3,2018 )
The Ghost And The Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly
epub |eng | 2005-08-31 | Author:Alice Kimberly [Kimberly, Alice]

CHAPTER 15 Guesswork Some time ago I read in a New York paper that fifty or sixty college graduates had been appointed to the metropolitan police force… . The news ...
( Category: Mystery April 3,2018 )
The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair
epub |eng | 1908-04-03 | Author:Upton Sinclair [Sinclair, Upton]

CHAPTER XIII Alice was up early the next morning to go to church with Harry Curtiss, but Montague, who had really come to rest, was later in arising. Afterwards he ...
( Category: Classics April 3,2018 )
Shakespeare and Smythe 03 - Much Ado About Murder by Simon Hawke
epub |eng | 2010-03-07 | Author:Simon Hawke [Hawke, Simon]

he had slept, Master Leonardo had been murdered. 7 TUCK FOUND OUT WHAT HAD happened over breakfast down-stairs in the tavern. Or at least, once he got past all the ...
( Category: Philosophy April 3,2018 )
More than Real by David Shulman
epub |eng | 2012-04-08 | Author:David Shulman [Shulman, David]

7.3. Sarpavaram: Bhāva Reexamined The primary themes of the Sīmantinī story are played out, with interesting variation, in the structures of a well-known, living temple in the Godāvarī delta. The ...
( Category: Philosophy April 3,2018 )
My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein by Suzanne Stutman
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-10 | Author:Suzanne Stutman

71. Hamburg / Hotel Atlantic / August 13, 1928 My dear: As soon as we arrived I went to the Hamburg Am. line to ask for letters, but whatever mail ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 3,2018 )
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book) by Umberto Eco
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

1983 Culture as Show Business The years 1979 and 1980 were a time when, as some ripened novelties were already being theorized, the first puzzled questions were beginning to be ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 3,2018 )
Njord and Skadi: A Myth Explored by Sheena McGrath
azw3 |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:Sheena McGrath [McGrath, Sheena]

Chapter 9 Why do the Gods and Giants Interact at all? Reading the Norse myths in Edith Hamilton's book, a much younger me wondered why the gods and giants kept ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 3,2018 )
The Red Tent by Diamante Anita
epub |eng | | Author:Diamante, Anita

CHAPTER Six ALTHOUGH I HAD longed for home every moment of my absence, I was shocked by it when I arrived. Nothing was as I remembered it. My brothers, my ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction April 3,2018 )
The Onion Presents Chronicles Of The Area Man by Onion The
mobi |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Onion, The [Onion, The]

Family Cell-Phone Plan Area Family's Closest Bond God's Plan For Area Man Involves Kidnapping Ford CEO MINOT, ND—Unemployed factory worker James Harold Gurshner told reporters Monday that God's plan for ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 3,2018 )
A History of Cookbooks: From Kitchen to Page over Seven Centuries (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Henry Notaker
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Henry Notaker [Notaker, Henry]

A QUESTION OF PRICE The first printed books were so expensive that few people had the money to purchase them, but books gradually became more accessible. In the sixteenth century, ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 3,2018 )
07 - Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery
epub |eng | 2010-08-24 | Author:L. M. Montgomery [Montgomery, L. M.]

CHAPTER 17 A Double Victory Norman Douglas came to church the first Sunday in November and made all the sensation he desired. Mr. Meredith shook hands with him absently on ...
( Category: Classics April 3,2018 )
Churchill Plays: 1: Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine: "Owners"; "Traps"; "Vinegar Tom"; "Light Shining i (Contemporary Dramatists) by Caryl Churchill
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Caryl Churchill [Churchill, Caryl]

( Category: Dramas & Plays April 3,2018 )

First Prev [601] [602] [603] [604] 605 [606] [607] [608] [609] [610] [611] Next Last