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Latin Verse Satire by Miller Paul Allen
epub |eng | | Author:Miller, Paul Allen

JUVENAL 1 How can anyone not write satire today? Juvenal in his opening programmatic satire explains why, unlike Lucilius (line 165) he will only attack the dead (lines 170–1). The ...
( Category: Poetry December 27,2017 )
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Gikandi Simon;
epub |eng | | Author:Gikandi, Simon;

6 To understand the role of punishment as perversely desirable, it is important to rehearse the spectacle of punishment and its inscription in the European text and to turn, like ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 27,2017 )
A Dark Night's Passing by Naoya Shiga
epub |eng | 2013-06-21 | Author:Naoya Shiga [Shiga, Naoya]

3 “It is some time since I last wrote to you. I trust you are well. I enjoyed reading your last letter, and was happy to hear that Kyoto suited ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 27,2017 )
In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr]

Nadya had got involved with him almost without noticing - that ticket to the cinema, their joking tussle over the notebook - and now that Shchagov had come tonight, even ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2017 )
(1959) Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Muriel Spark [Spark, Muriel]

The reorganization of the Maud Long Ward began next day, and all patients declared it a mercy for Granny Barnacle that she had been spared it. Hitherto, the twelve beds ...
( Category: Literary December 27,2017 )
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Catriona Kelly
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Catriona Kelly

‘A wakenin g nobl e feelin gs with 14. Cartoon of two writers by Yu. Gorokhov. my lyre’ that Tolstoy’s successors will provide them with ethical stimulation of just this ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 27,2017 )
The Writer's Workshop by Frank Conroy
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Frank Conroy

About the author Frank Conroy (1936 - 2005) was director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa from 1987 until 2005. He also taught at the University ...
( Category: Contemporary December 26,2017 )
Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr
epub |eng | | Author:David Orr

Still, however blurry “ambition” may be, it’s clear that segments of the poetry world have been fretting over its potential loss since at least 1983. That’s the year in which ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 26,2017 )
The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Katherine Mansfield

18. Pictures Eight o’clock in the morning. Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling. Her room, a Bloomsbury top-floor back, smelled of soot ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 26,2017 )
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

XII AT THE ZAKHLEBININS’ The Zakhlebinins were actually a “very respectable family,” as Velchaninov had put it earlier, and Zakhlebinin himself was quite a solid official and a visible one. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 26,2017 )
Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
mobi, epub | | 2011-02-04 | Author:Franz Werfel

The dossier wandered without delay on to the desk of the Minister of War. It was Enver Pasha's habit never to refuse a request of Talaat's. That evening, when they ...
( Category: Military December 26,2017 )
Storia della letteratura italiana by Francesco De Sanctis
epub | | 2010-01-07 | Author:Francesco De Sanctis [Sanctis, Francesco De]

O gran bontà de' cavalieri antichi! Non ci era dunque in Italia un serio sentimento cavalleresco, che potesse ispirare qualche cosa come il Cid; e scaduto ogni sentimento religioso, morale ...
( Category: Italian December 26,2017 )
En busca del tiempo perdido by Proust Marcel
epub | | 2009-12-13 | Author:Proust, Marcel [Proust, Marcel]

Yo no lo estaba menos, porque en casa de la princesa nunca se había visto ni se vio luego, un personaje de su calaña. Acababa dé curar al príncipe, ya ...
( Category: Movements & Periods December 26,2017 )
Lord Peter Wimsey 10 - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
epub |eng | 1932-12-31 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

Now, it is not very clear at the first glance what this disagreement between Mr Tallboy and Mr Smayle about a cricket match had to do with the original disagreement ...
( Category: Mystery December 25,2017 )
Byatt, A S - The Children's Book by Byatt A S
epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Byatt, A S

Byatt, A S - The Children's Book III A S Byatt THE SILVER AGE 32 Backwards and forwards, both. The Edwardians knew they came after something. The sempiternal Queen was ...
( Category: Literary December 25,2017 )

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