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The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Pliny the Younger [Younger, Pliny the]

7. To his wife Calpumia You say that you are feeling my absence very much, and your only comfort when I am not there is to hold my writings in ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 13,2017 )
GRAVITY RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Thomas Pynchon [Pynchon, Thomas]

D D D D D D D Under a tall willow tree beside a canal, in a jeep, in the shade, sit Tchitcherine and his driver Dzabajev a teenage Kazakh ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 13,2017 )
Brite, Poppy Z by Love in Vein
epub | | 2010-12-24 | Author:Love in Vein [Vein, Love in]

April 13, 1890 —The calendar says that it is April so I must believe it. I have lost track of the passing of the days and nights, and even the ...
( Category: Fantasy December 12,2017 )
Introducing Romanticism by Duncan Heath
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Heath

Our search is for a renewal of the initial inwardness of feeling felt by children. The synaesthetic work of art would approximate the childlike ability to assimilate differing sensations into ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 12,2017 )
Unacknowledged Legislation by Hitchens Christopher
epub |eng | | Author:Hitchens, Christopher

‘Julian did a fabulous picture of a Coke bottle once,’ Tooley said. ‘Who’s Julian?’ I asked absent-mindedly. ‘The boy-friend, of course. I told you. He painted the Coke bright yellow. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 12,2017 )
Introducing Derrida by Collins Jeff; Mayblin Bill;
epub |eng | | Author:Collins, Jeff; Mayblin, Bill;

Derrida’s “Signature, event, context” ends with Derrida’s signature. He signs with an im/pure signature, a paraph and a re-mark. What’s important in this argument about communication and signatures? Derrida has ...
( Category: Philosophy December 12,2017 )
Introducing Barthes by Philip Thody
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Thody

What he was really doing, in Goldmann’s view, was expressing the world view of a class condemned by history to the same kind of political impotence that Euripides’ heroes and ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 12,2017 )
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-10 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Sub jectiveness—these are threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order, but ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 11,2017 )
The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus by Rene Salm
epub |eng | 2008-03-10 | Author:Rene Salm [Salm, Rene]

The necropolis. – The map given [in] fig. 599 locates the ancient remains of Nazareth: one notes there the ensemble of the Annunciation, at the center, and in the environs, ...
( Category: Religious Studies December 11,2017 )
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-01-15 | Author:Tayeb Salih, [Tayeb Salih,]

At approximately four o’clock in the afternoon I went ro Mustafa Sa’eed’s house. I entered by the door of the large courtyard, glanced momentarily to the left at the rectangular ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 11,2017 )
Clive Cussler & Dirk Pitt Revealed by Clive Cussler
epub, mobi | | | Author:Clive Cussler

Hippocampus. The sea horse-shaped ridge running under the horns of thelateral ventricles, a vital section of the brain's limbic system. Hobson. Part of the CIA's phantom fleet, the vessel is ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 11,2017 )
The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian
epub |eng | 1999-06-14 | Author:Gao Xingjian [Xingjian, Gao]

(Girl laughs heartily. Man reluctantly raises his hands and laughs.) Girl: I like being gay. Nobody asked you to become impotent! Man: Gosh, what a she-devil! Girl: I’m going to ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 11,2017 )
Snow in August by Gao Xingjian
epub |eng | 2004-10-26 | Author:Gao Xingjian [Xingjian, Gao]

[Huiming clasps his hands in salutation. Enter Crowd, looking anxious and frustrated. Crowd: Master Huiming, have you seen the barbarian from the south? Huiming: Have I seen that guy? No ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 11,2017 )
52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life by Andrea Owen
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Andrea Owen [Owen, Andrea]

CHAPTER 25 Stop Trying to Run Other People’s Lives There’s a fine line between trying to help people by giving them advice and trying to tell them what to do ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 11,2017 )
The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales From Hindu Lore by Pattanaik Devdutt
epub |eng | | Author:Pattanaik, Devdutt.

The Son of Shiva and Vishnu Shiva once saw Vishnu in the form of Mohini. Overwhelmed by desire he embraced Mohini and spilt his semen. From the spilt seed was ...
( Category: LGBT December 11,2017 )

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