History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

1. This is the spelling adopted by the reporter for the Edinburgh Caledonian Mercury, the source of this text. 2. Fictional, folkloric character who personified the U.S. nation. 3. Like ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Philip Kitcher [Kitcher, Philip]

THREE Shadows 1 In the spring of 1912, Thomas Mann wrote to congratulate his brother Heinrich on the completion of a play, adding: “I would be glad to report something ...
( Category: Music March 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Xueqin, Cao]

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: Classics March 4,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-07 | Author:Susan Stryker [Stryker, Susan]

WE DEMAND 1. Abolition of all cross-dressing laws and restrictions of adornment. 2. An end to exploitation and discrimination within the gay world. 3. An end to exploitation practices of ...
( Category: LGBT March 4,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-12-31 | Author:Fredy Perlman

15. The Church's project of rehabilitating the Roman Leviathan on its west-Eurasian home-grounds succeeds—but only for an instant, a fleeting instant which gives rise to lasting illusions. Charlemagne's neo-Roman Empire ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Homer

Just as when a quick thought darts through the heart of a man when cares crowd in on him 45 and toss him about or when bright glances spin off ...
( Category: Poetry March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |zho | 2010-09-02 | Author:Butler, Christopher [Butler, Christopher]

It underwrites Lily Briscoe’s final ‘vision’ in To the Lighthouse. She is trying to complete a picture which contains ‘Mrs Ramsay sitting on the step with James’. (But Mrs Ramsay, ...
( Category: Philosophy March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

It was the language of nature, and arose from the heart of the deprived mother, as it did from that gifted imaginative poet while furnishing with appropriate expressions the ideal ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-10-01 | Author:Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich]

CHAPTER XI Nevertheless events did not turn out as Chichikov had intended they should. In the first place, he overslept himself. That was check number one. In the second place, ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

Chapter 5. The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd Basil Grant had comparatively few friends besides myself; yet he was the reverse of an unsociable man. He would talk to any ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 3,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

LIMERICKS AND COUNSELS OF PERFECTION It is customary to remark that modern problems cannot easily be attacked because they are so complex. In many cases I believe it is really ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

The Wings of Stone The preceding essay is about a half-built house upon my private horizon; I wrote it sitting in a garden-chair; and as, though it was a week ...
( Category: Humor March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-05-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"Whoever made it, who is wiser, and we hope better than we, made it under strange limitations, and with painful conditions of pleasure. "In the first and darkest of its ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1996-03-01 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

CHAPTER V—A PAUMOTUAN FUNERAL No, I had no guess of these men’s terrors. Yet I had received ere that a hint, if I had understood; and the occasion was a ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Payne, Robert Translated and with an Introduction by ]

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )