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The Poems by Catullus
epub |eng | 2004-09-29 | Author:Catullus [Catullus]

56 A matter for mirth, Cato, & a smile worth your attention, you’ll laugh you’ll laugh as you love your Catullus, Cato listen – a matter for more than a ...
( Category: Poetry March 1,2018 )
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Sappho
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Sappho

Fragment 20 This fragment describes a great storm. Perhaps the song contained a prayer for a safe sea voyage (cf. frs. 5 and 17). Fragment 21 This song, together with ...
( Category: Poetry March 1,2018 )
The Satyricon AND The Apocolocyntosis by Petronius & Seneca
epub |eng | 2005-01-27 | Author:Petronius, & Seneca,

Won’t you come back to life? Won’t you give up your womanly error and enjoy the comforts of life as long as you can? That very corpse lying there should ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 1,2018 )
Ancient Epic by Katherine Callen King
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Katherine Callen King

Penelope Penelope is the archetypal faithful wife. The ghost of Agamemnon exclaims, “How good were the thoughts of blameless Penelope, daughter of Ikarios! How well she remembered Odysseus, her lawful ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 1,2018 )
Shameless by Franco Cristiana
epub |eng | | Author:Franco, Cristiana

Conclusion The account has come full circle, and this foray into the Greek imagination, begun with Pandora, has returned in the end to woman and her “doggish” character—hopefully, with some ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 1,2018 )
The State of Speech by Connolly Joy
epub |eng | 2009-03-01 | Author:Connolly, Joy

AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF THE SELF That rhetoric treats the body as the very stuff of virtue holds obvious implications for beliefs about gender and its role in the construction ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 1,2018 )
The Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Reynolds

SCENE VIII PHAON What do I see? a rival at her feet! He clasps her hands, devours it with his kisses. Rouse thee, rash swain, and stand prepar’d to meet ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 1,2018 )
Walter Benjamin by GERSHOM SCHOLEM
epub |eng | | Author:GERSHOM SCHOLEM

Mach mich wie den Erich Fromm, Dass ich in den Himmel komm.[1] [Make me just like Erich Fromm That into heaven I may come.] Fromm and Benjamin later became colleagues ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 1,2018 )
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
epub |eng | 2014-02-26 | Author:William H. Gass

but I have been dropping hints all along like heavy shoes that the ultimate and essential displacement is to the word, and that the true sexuality in literature—sex as a ...
( Category: Philosophy March 1,2018 )
The Journal by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Sept. 25. A very fine and warm afternoon after a cloudy morning. Carry Aunt and Sophia a-barberrying to Conantum. Saw two marsh hawks skimming low over the meadows and another, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 1,2018 )
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Aeschylus

HEPHAISTOS I have the harness ready, as you see. KRATOS Encase his arms in it, then pound your hammer against those nails and pin him to the rock. HEPHAISTOS The ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays March 1,2018 )
The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics) by Trilling Lionel
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Trilling, Lionel [Trilling, Lionel]

but rather to what Wordsworth calls “those first affections.” I am inclined to think that with this phrase Wordsworth refers to a later stage in the child’s development which, like ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 1,2018 )
Infinite Jest by Wallace David Foster
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-04-03 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

At lunchtime, Hal Incandenza was lying on his bunk in bright sunlight through the window with his hands laced over his chest, and Jim Troeltsch poked his head in and ...
( Category: Contemporary February 28,2018 )
The Road (Vintage International) by McCarthy Cormac
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-03-20 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

There were knives and plastic utensils and silverware and kitchen tools in a plastic box. A can opener. There were electric torches that didnt work. He found a box of ...
( Category: Modern February 28,2018 )
The Discovery of Our Galaxy by Charles A. Whitney
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Charles A. Whitney [Whitney, Charles A.]

Concerning variations of stellar brightness and color, astronomers no longer agree with Laplace that spots on the surface of a star will account for most of the observations. Many stars ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 28,2018 )

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