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Beneath the Water by Sarah Painter
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-02-08 | Author:Sarah Painter [Painter, Sarah]

Stella followed the doctor out and tugged his sleeve before he could scoot off to another patient. ‘Is there anything else?’ ‘Sorry?’ Stella inclined her head to indicate the ward ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 5,2018 )
Samuel Beckett Is Closed by Michael Coffey
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Michael Coffey [Coffey, Michael]

IX. —That fellow’s very deft. For Beckett, the high priest of failure—“fail better,” “like none other dare fail,” “better worse,” “say nohow on”—what are we to make of the works ...
( Category: British & Irish March 5,2018 )
The World of Camelot by Michael Foss
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Michael Foss [Foss, Michael]

At last Sir Tristram came to Camelot, and King Arthur ran unto Tristram and took him by the hand saying, ‘Sir Tristram, you are as welcome as any knight that ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 5,2018 )
A Passion for Books by Harold Rabinowitz
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Harold Rabinowitz [Rabinowitz, Harold]

Potch BY LEO ROSTEN Among the score of books Leo Rosten wrote, he is probably best known for The Joys of Yiddish and The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. Rosten considered ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 5,2018 )
The Daily Henry James by James Henry
epub |eng | 2016-10-12 | Author:James, Henry

June 29 The Awkward Age, 1899 A person who knew him well would, if present at the scene, have found occasion in it to be freshly aware that he was, ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 5,2018 )
Judas Country by Gavin Lyall
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Gavin Lyall [Lyall, Gavin]

Chapter 15 The ride down the hill, in a big metallic-grey Mercedes, was a lot smoother than the journey up. And no problems, either. I’d wondered if Aziz might call ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 5,2018 )
Go Home! by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
epub |eng | 2018-01-25 | Author:Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

JESSICA HAD LOST most of her friends come middle school, and she needed to get back in with me. I can’t remember how or why, but she found her way ...
( Category: United States March 5,2018 )
Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Wallace Thurman [Thurman, Wallace]

XV At ten o’clock the next morning Raymond, Paul, Stephen, and Eustace met Euphoria at the Washington Heights court. The room was already crowded and they were unable to find ...
( Category: United States March 5,2018 )
The Challenges of Orpheus by Heather Dubrow
epub |eng | 2008-02-15 | Author:Heather Dubrow [Dubrow, Heather]

As I was drafting this chapter, a morning news program announced that Martha Stewart’s personal assistant had given “a teary performance on the stand,” thus demonstrating the multiple denotations and ...
( Category: Poetry March 5,2018 )
Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry by Konstantin Batyushkov
epub |eng | 2017-11-28 | Author:Konstantin Batyushkov

A twenty-line passage on the contrasting fate of the damned then leads into a final section addressed directly to the poet’s beloved; one can imagine that the name Delia here ...
( Category: World Literature March 5,2018 )
Between Dog and Wolf by Sokolov Sasha; Boguslawski Alexander;
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Sokolov, Sasha; Boguslawski, Alexander; [Sokolov, Sasha; Boguslawski, Alexander;]

My grandmother’s reverie for love came from the fact that she had found it at seventeen and it had taken her from a claustrophobic home where, as the eldest girl, ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 5,2018 )
Taking My Life by Jane Rule
epub |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Jane Rule [Rule, Jane]

Sally Millett and Jane Rule Jane Rule Fonds, University Archives, University of British Columbia The steelhead trout were running. At the lodge, we met a man who ran a radio ...
( Category: Authors March 5,2018 )
The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop
epub |eng | 2017-08-11 | Author:Viv Groskop

7. How to Live with the Feeling That the Grass is Always Greener: Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Or: Don’t keep going on about Moscow) ‘Oh my God, I dream ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 5,2018 )
Album by Roland Barthes
epub |eng | | Author:Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes to Maurice Blanchot May 22, 1967186 I found your letter when I returned from Italy and I’m responding to you with a word on the text that you ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 5,2018 )
Agatha Christie by Janet Morgan
epub |eng | 1984-02-15 | Author:Janet Morgan [Janet Morgan]

16 ‘… a nice parallel track’ Max was now anxious to lead an expedition of his own and set about raising funds. Agatha shared this goal; indeed, in a Christmas ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 5,2018 )

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