History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Fiona Stafford

MANSFIELD PARK AND EMMA 1813–15 The intensity of Jane Austen’s preoccupation with her writing cannot be overstated. Although her nephew’s recollections conjure up a picture of the modest aunt quickly ...
( Category: Classics October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-07 | Author:Maxim Gorky

III Nikolai appeared towards evening. They had dinner, and over dinner Sofia recounted, laughing, how she had met and hidden the man who had escaped from exile, how she had ...
( Category: Classics October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Hood

BEFORE SKIP GAVE me that boxed set of Steinbeck, no one had ever given me a book as a gift. But the gift was even bigger than he’d imagined. When ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Siegfried Sassoon [Sassoon, Siegfried]

The huntsman now enlivened the deflated proceedings by taking his hounds to a distant holloa on the other side of the brook. A man on a bicycle had viewed our ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Friedrich Dürrenmatt [Friedrich Dürrenmatt]

( Category: Contemporary October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Robbins

HOOKED UP When I was a wee bairn in the late ’70s, a mass-market paperback called The Poetry of Rock was often to be found among the macramé and marijuana ...
( Category: Personal Transformation October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hesiod;

care, but nevertheless even these people will have some good mixed with bad. Zeus will destroy this Iron Race of mortal men too, when they turn out to be born ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature October 18,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Friedrich Dürrenmatt [Friedrich Dürrenmatt]

( Category: Contemporary October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Silvina Ocampo

Dialogues of the Silence In the many secret catalogues of time, where will those long and lucid dialogues be found that I imagined having with those I loved, with those ...
( Category: Anthologies October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Alexander Vvedensky

NATIONS We poor fellow, poor pauper, stare in the mirror where the earth lies reflected like a serpentine snake. We shall study the earth. Due to study of the earth ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elaine Scarry

9 Fifth Way: Floral Supposition When we look through literary passages that are particularly brilliant in prompting us to create moving pictures, we find an inexplicably high number of them ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-20 | Author:Lucian

LYCINUS: I’d no idea you were such an accomplished speaker, [15] Polystratus. Anyway, the prosecution speech you’ve made against my work was so long and thorough that I don’t even ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lupton, Mary; [MARY JANE LUPTON]

Chapter 5 Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976) When Angelou’s second volume, Gather Together in My Name, reached its conclusion, Maya, luckily released from a life of ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Hermione Lee

And he turns from his memory to look up at ‘the hollow, silver winter moon’. Like that protean goddess, Marian appears to Niel as an icon for worship, ‘all puffs ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Merilyn Simonds

SAVING GRACE A week after the image trials are done, I walk into Hugh’s studio and find him cleaning up. Garbage bags sit plumped on the floor. The counters are ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )