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Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Vendler
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Helen Vendler [Vendler, Helen]

Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon. Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of ...
( Category: Poetry November 28,2017 )
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris
epub |eng | 1978-01-02 | Author:Ivan Morris [Morris, Ivan]

The regular Yearly Observances originated in many different ways. Some had been taken over directly from the Chinese Court, though by Murasaki’s time they had mostly undergone considerable adaptation. Others, ...
( Category: Asia November 28,2017 )
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip José Farmer
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Philip José Farmer [Farmer, Philip José]

( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2017 )
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert [Gilbert, Elizabeth]

Learning The curious thing is, I actually kept those vows. I kept them for years. I still keep them. I have broken many promises in my life (including a marriage ...
( Category: Creativity November 28,2017 )
Macroanalysis by Matthew L. Jockers
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Matthew L. Jockers [Jockers, Matthew L.]

Figure 6.11. Percentage view of category influence Figure 6.12. Relative view of category influence • • • Some micro thoughts…Claudi Guillén writes in Literature as a System that “genre is ...
( Category: Graphics & Design November 28,2017 )
Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Lynne Sharon Schwartz [Schwartz, Lynne Sharon]

She starts skipping at that early age—just the age I learned to read—and her fame spreads throughout the country, for she is a born skipper. The fairies soon hear of ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2017 )
Hugging the Shore by John Updike
azw3 |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:John Updike

The nine-year-old heroine of “The Fat Man” is not kissed but killed, and expresses her power by haunting the murderer: “It is her small light step that has followed close ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2017 )
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens - Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest by Nancy Pearl
epub |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Nancy Pearl [Pearl, Nancy]

“I”BOOKS When I was in the fourth grade, Miss LaFramboise, the art teacher, came once a week to give our home-room teacher, Mrs. Syllagi, an hour break.To pass the time, ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2017 )
Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Jonathan Swift [Swift, Jonathan]

Their gods were the four winds, whom they worshipped as the spirits that pervade and enliven the universe, and as those from whom alone all inspiration can properly be said ...
( Category: Classics November 28,2017 )
Utopia by More Thomas
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:More, Thomas [More, Thomas]

* * * End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of Utopia, by Thomas More * * * Utopia from http://mc.clintock.com/gutenberg/ Utopia Table of Contents Utopia Information about Project Gutenberg Information ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 28,2017 )
The Road to Dune by Frank Herbert & Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
mobi |eng | 2006-08-28 | Author:Frank Herbert & Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson [Herbert, Frank]

I think this will be called a better book than Dragon in the Sea and that has won many songs of praise. I bow three times—and hold out my hands ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 28,2017 )
Letters 1945-59 by Burroughs William S
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Burroughs, William S [Burroughs, William S]

To Allen Ginsberg Dec. 30, 1954 [Tangier] Dear Allen, Enclose first chapter of current novel. Reading it over I get an impression of something very sinister just under the surface, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 27,2017 )
Terrarium by Scott Russell Sanders
epub |eng | 2014-11-27 | Author:Scott Russell Sanders

5 March 2034—Vancouver If I do not let Teeg go inside for a visit, Gregory threatens to send the HP after her, as he certainly can now that she’s reached ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 27,2017 )
Ostend by Volker Weidermann
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Volker Weidermann

Finally the Tollers arrive too, from London, on the direct ship from Dover. Wherever they surface, they’re stars, with a nimbus of beauty and fame. The Socialist and his goddess, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 27,2017 )
The Mask of Memory by Victor Canning
epub |eng | | Author:Victor Canning [Canning, Victor]

Her solicitor, Andrew Browning, after the formalities of condolence, and the practised paternalism towards a wealthy client, not friend, but long known, respected, privately assessed and judged as worthy, and ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 27,2017 )

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