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Bound in Venice by Alessandro Marzo Magno
epub |ita | 2013-08-30 | Author:Alessandro Marzo Magno

6. The Wind from the East The Balkans begin at the Rennweg,” Prince Metternich, the Prime Minister of Austria was fond of saying. Rennweg was the name of the street ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 28,2018 )
THE STORY OF THE STONE VOL-1 by Cao Xueqin
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cao Xueqin

CHAPTER 15 At Water-moon Priory Xi-feng finds how much profit may be procured by the abuse of power And Qin Zhong discovers the pleasures that are to be had under ...
( Category: Literary March 28,2018 )
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Theodor Adorno [Adorno, Theodor]

ELEMENTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM: The Limits of Enlightenment I. FOR some people today anti-Semitism involves the destiny of mankind; for others it is a mere pretext. The Fascists do not view ...
( Category: Philosophy March 28,2018 )
The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Ferreira Rachel Haywood; Ferreira Rachel Haywood;
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Ferreira, Rachel Haywood; Ferreira, Rachel Haywood;

EXPANDING THE LIMITS: CASTERA’S SEARCH FOR SYNTHESIS “A Celestial Journey” [Un viaje celeste] (Mexico, 1872) opens with an epigraph by Flammarion: “We are all citizens of the heavens” [Nous sommes ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 28,2018 )
Critical Theory and Science Fiction by Freedman Carl;
epub |eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Freedman, Carl;

The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia The epistemological concerns that dominate Solaris are also very much present in The Dispossessed (1974),10 which, in one of its ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 28,2018 )
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide by Owen Holland
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Owen Holland [Holland, Owen]

The connection between a signifier, such as “dog”, and its signified will differ in different languages: French speakers use a different signifier (chien) and Spanish speakers yet another (perro). The ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 28,2018 )
Living by the Word: Essays by Alice Walker
mobi |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Alice Walker

THE DUMMY IN THE WINDOW: JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AND THE INVENTION OF UNCLE REMUS [This was originally delivered as a talk at the Atlanta Historical Society in 1981.] About three ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 27,2018 )
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five by Curtis Smith
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-02 | Author:Curtis Smith

* As I held that radio from my youth in the antique barn, what I felt wasn’t so much reunion as a type of surfacing, the rising of the past ...
( Category: Literary March 27,2018 )
The Exorcist by William Blatty
epub |eng | | Author:William Blatty

The demoniacal form of possession is usually thought to have had its origin in early Christianity; yet in fact both possession and exorcism pre-date the time of Christ. The ancient ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 27,2018 )
Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past by Red Pine
epub |eng | 2016-06-01 | Author:Red Pine [Pine, Red]

The peal of a temple bell as day turns to dusk the noise of the Yuliang Ferry as it struggles across people walking along the shore to their villages by ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 27,2018 )
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
epub |eng | 1935-01-02 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

26 I went to the door and looked out. It had stopped raining but there was a mist. "Should we go upstairs?" I asked the priest. "I can only stay ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 27,2018 )
More Than True by Robert Bly
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Bly

FIVE ONE-TWO MAN Once upon a time there was a boy who was living with his grandmother, the father having died some years before, and his mother seemingly gone, perhaps ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 27,2018 )
Neruda by Mark Eisner
epub |eng | 2018-03-01 | Author:Mark Eisner

He named them: “freedom of speech and expression; freedom of every person to worship God in his own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.” “That was the world that ...
( Category: Poetry March 27,2018 )
H. P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:H.P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H.P.]

This letter, oddly enough, was what first gave Ward the exact location of Curwen’s Providence home; for none of the records encountered up to that time had been at all ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 26,2018 )
Lorna Barrett_Booktown Mystery 03 by Bookplate Special
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Bookplate Special [Special, Bookplate]

THIRTEEN “Ms. Miles,” Captain Baker said firmly, “you should have called the Sheriff’s Department as soon as someone shot at your windows. We’re here to protect the citizens of Stoneham.” ...
( Category: Mystery March 26,2018 )

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