History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Desire

“I call it the effects of the curse.” “I can more easily believe you’ve been dallying behind my back.” Her husband grasped her upper arm tightly, forcing her to look ...
( Category: United States April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dangerous Joy

She kicked out, landing a solid blow on the carriage door, but fortunately she was only wearing soft slippers. He trapped her legs between his own and kept her head ...
( Category: Regency April 2,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Rita Mae Brown

My grandparents, Reuben and Carrie Brown, on their wedding day in 1901. Jack Young, my natural mother’s father, in 1940. A local power in the Republican Party, he was “the ...
( Category: Authors April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Pu Songling [Songling, Pu]

66 MYNAH BIRD Wang Fenbin once told this story about a man in his native town who kept a mynah bird. The man taught it to speak, and they became ...
( Category: Chinese April 2,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Ali Brandon

THIRTEEN HOW LONG SHE HAD BEEN SITTING ON THE STAIRWAY contemplating the possibility of Robert as a cold-blooded killer, Darla wasn’t certain. It was only when a member of the ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:R. Howard Bloch [Bloch, R. Howard]

Good evening, little peacock, all is OK Mr Mallarmé rentier The freedom to write might have seemed exhilarating, yet Mallarmé also knew that there would be no more deferrals of ...
( Category: World Literature April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:Makoto Fujimura [Fujimura, Makoto]

Among the many masters of tea at that time, what stood out was Rikyu’s impeccable discernment of refined beauty, which he often found in surprising ordinary objects, or in innovative ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 2,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

We last glimpse the ‘handsome couple’ three years later, in Buenos Aires. Handel’s Tamerlane is playing at the Teatro Colón. Jewels ‘winked’. A Mercedes Maybach ‘whispered to the curb’. You’ll ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 2,2018 )
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-17 | Author:Douglas Adams

in my mind explaining to them what was going on, and they would all say, Yeah? Well so what? I don't want to get involved.' Either they didn't want to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Isabel Allende

( Category: Movements & Periods April 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1967-06-01 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez

( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1948-08-01 | Author:Leopoldo Marechal

( Category: Words, Language & Grammar April 1,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1939-01-01 | Author:Raymond Chandler

( Category: History & Criticism April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Barbara Cassin [Cassin, Barbara]

Arendt: To Have One’s Language for a Homeland The Europe of the pre-Hitler period? I can’t say that I don’t have any nostalgia for it. What remains? The language remains. ...
( Category: Comparative Literature April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2017-06-25 | Author:Pierre Lassus

IN SUM, HIS LIFE seemed like a nightmare to him. “My life is in chaos, and there’s hardly anything I can do about it…. A telephone call, a forgotten appointment, ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 1,2018 )