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Painting in the Renaissance by Una D'Elia
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Una D'Elia [D'Elia, Una]

Altarpieces In the Renaissance, altarpieces were like watching over those in the painting. Painters stage sets for church ceremonies. People such as Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin prayed, looking ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
More Artists of the Right by K. R. Bolton
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:K. R. Bolton [Bolton, K. R.]

INTERNMENT Such sentiments were regarded as treasonous by the authorities whose government had tied Australia to British imperial and American, i.e., plutocratic, interests. Additionally, several individuals and groups had gained ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 4,2018 )
Black Ink by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
epub |eng | | Author:Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Reading for Revolution * * * STOKELY CARMICHAEL [KWAME TURE] I spent hours in the library enduring the taunts of the neighbor kids about being “a bookworm.” With Olympian impartiality, ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
The Copenhagen Papers by Michael Frayn
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Frayn [Frayn, Michael]

DB: I kept out of Frayn’s way all through the great April Fools’ dinner, and still the blow had not fallen. Still he had not risen to his feet and ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays February 4,2018 )
Five Modern Japanese Novelists by Donald Keene
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Donald Keene [Keene, Donald]

Abe Kōbō (1924–1993) I first met Abe Kōbō in the autumn of 1964. He had come to New York in connection with the publication by Knopf of the English translation ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
The Best American Magazine Writing 2017 by Sid Holt
epub |eng | | Author:Sid Holt

• • • I once mentioned to Obama a scene from The Godfather: Part III, in which Michael Corleone complains angrily about his failure to escape the grasp of organized ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides February 4,2018 )
The Best American Magazine Writing 2016 by Sid Holt
epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:Sid Holt

New York Times Magazine FINALIST—REPORTING In the last five years the United States has deported hundreds of thousands undocumented aliens. Even at a time when immigration is the subject of ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides February 4,2018 )
A Harlot High and Low by Honore de Balzac
epub |eng | 2009-12-07 | Author:Honore de Balzac [Balzac, Honore de]

The oath sworn by Corentin WHEN he arrived at his country house in one of the quietest and pleasantest streets in the little town of Passy, the rue des Vignes, ...
( Category: Classics February 4,2018 )
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Honore de Balzac [Balzac, Honore de]

THE DEATH AGONY ONE day at the beginning of December* an old man of seventy or more was walking, despite the rain, along the Rue de Varenne, peering up as ...
( Category: Classics February 4,2018 )
The Once and Future Queen by Nicole Evelina
epub |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:Nicole Evelina [Evelina, Nicole]

* * * 314 Morris, William, The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908), 8-10. 315 Bonner, "Guinevere as Heroine," 8. 316 Ibid., 61. ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
Walt Whitman by David S. Reynolds
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:David S. Reynolds [Reynolds, David S.]

Down-hearted doubters dull and excluded, Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten’d, atheistical, I know every one of you, I the sea of torment, doubt, despair, and unbelief.5 Whitman, however, had ...
( Category: Poetry February 4,2018 )
The Amorous Heart by Marilyn Yalom
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Marilyn Yalom

KING LEAR, THE GREATEST OF SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES, has at its core the theme of filial love experienced in two parallel families: the foursome made up of Lear and his three ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
Father Mine by J. R. Ward
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:J. R. Ward [Ward, J. R.]

Bella felt Z’s erection deflate and was well aware it wasn’t because he’d just had a release. He was capable of going four or five orgasms at a clip—and that ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
The Black Dagger Brotherhood_An Insider's Guide by J. R. Ward
epub |eng | 2008-10-07 | Author:J. R. Ward [Ward, J. R.]

You didn’t save him. You didn’t save them. The curse was brought upon them all by you. The fault is yours . . . the fault is yours. . . ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
Finding John Rae by Alice Jane Hamilton
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Alice Jane Hamilton [Hamilton, Alice Jane]

Stromness and Orphir, Orkney [NOVEMBER 1854] I awoke long before daylight and lay in bed for a while, listening to Bessie humming to herself as she lit the fires and ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )

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