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Forty Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov & Robert Payne
epub |eng | 1914-01-02 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov & Robert Payne [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich & Payne, Robert]

V Gusev returned to the sick bay and lay in his hammock. Once again he was tormented with vague yearnings, and could not understand what he wanted. There was a ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 12,2017 )
Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

* * * XXVIII A FOOTNOTE ON THE DUEL OF SEX If I were a woman I should want to be a blonde, with golden, silky hair, pink cheeks and ...
( Category: Humor October 11,2017 )
Prejudices, First Series by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

2 A Stranger on Parnassus The case of Hamlin Garland belongs to pathos in the grand manner, as you will discover on reading his autobiography, “A Son of the Middle ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2017 )
Prejudices, Third Series by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

I do not forget, of course, that there is a borderland in which it is hard to say, of this or that composition, whether it is prose or poetry. Lincoln's ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2017 )
Prejudices, Second Series by H. L. Mencken
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. L. Mencken [Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)]

* * * III. THE SAHARA OF THE BOZART Alas, for the South! Her books have grown fewer— She never was much given to literature. In the lamented J. Gordon ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 11,2017 )
The Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
epub |eng | | Author:Dante Alighieri

my vision fell from me exactly so the instant a new light beat on my face, a light outshining any that men know. I was looking all about, as if ...
( Category: Poetry October 10,2017 )
Essays and Lectures by ESSAYS & LECTURES
azw | | | Author:ESSAYS & LECTURES

* * * HOUSE DECORATION * * * IN my last lecture I gave you something of the history of Art in England. I sought to trace the influence of ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 9,2017 )
A Russian Doll & Other Stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Adolfo Bioy Casares [Levine, Suzanne Jill]

Our Trip (A Diary) Selection, Prologue, and Epilogue by F. B. PROLOGUE The editor of Jackson House had told me that he was preparing a collection of travel diaries and ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 9,2017 )
Dracula Unearthed by Bram Stoker
epub |eng | 1897-01-01 | Author:Bram Stoker [Stoker, Bram]

Jonathan Harker’s Journal Sunday, 15 October, Varna. [3060] — We left Charing Cross [3061] on the morning of the 12th, [3062] got to Paris the same night, and took the ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 9,2017 )
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe Daniel & Defoe Daniel
epub | | 2010-10-09 | Author:Defoe, Daniel & Defoe, Daniel

ELFDE HOOFDSTUK Toch een vriend Vanaf dat moment was ik nog voorzichtiger dan eerst. Ik waagde me zelden verder dan m’n hut in het dal; ik leek wel een gevangene. ...
( Category: Classics October 9,2017 )
What Is Stephen Harper Reading? by Yann Martel
epub |eng | 2009-10-09 | Author:Yann Martel [Martel, Yann]

Yours truly, Yann Martel LAURA BUSH (b. 1946), wife of former president George W. Bush, taught elementary school and worked as a school librarian. She is a founder of the ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 9,2017 )
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler Charles Van Doren
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren [Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren]

15 SUGGESTIONS FOR READING STORIES, PLAYS, AND POEMS The parallel rules for reading imaginative literature that were discussed in the last chapter were general ones, applying across the board to ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 8,2017 )
Man With the Getaway Face by Richard Stark
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Stark [Stark, Richard]

Chapter 7 SATURDAY, Handy went shopping around in different stores and pieced together a dark blue guard's uniform. That afternoon, to keep Skimm and Alma happy, they all got together ...
( Category: Mystery October 8,2017 )
Hunter by Richard Stark
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Stark [Stark, Richard]

PART THREE 1 FOR PARKER, it had been a cold thin trail from Stegman the cabman in Canarsie to the window of the St David Hotel. The Canarsie thing had ...
( Category: Mystery October 8,2017 )
Outfit by Richard Stark
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Stark [Stark, Richard]

5 THE SAME DAY and seven hundred miles to the east- Once a month, Eric LaRenne put on a brown suit with $75,000 in cash sewn into the jacket lining ...
( Category: Mystery October 8,2017 )

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