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Anonyponymous by John Bemelmans Marciano
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:John Bemelmans Marciano

pan·der v. To cynically cater to another’s interests. The character from whom this term originates has a long and varied history on the margins of great literature. In Homer’s Iliad, ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 8,2017 )
New Grub Street by George Gissing
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:George Gissing [Gissing, George]

CHAPTER XXI. MR YULE LEAVES TOWN Since the domestic incidents connected with that unpleasant review in The Current, the relations between Alfred Yule and his daughter had suffered a permanent ...
( Category: Classics October 8,2017 )
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2005-10-01 | Author:Charlotte Brontë [Brontë, Charlotte]

( Category: Classics October 8,2017 )
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
epub |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Douglas Coupland

Church bells were the Internet of the 1500s, but churches didn’t play them twenty-four hours a day. Back then they knew that as a species we’re not cut out for ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 8,2017 )
Morgan by Jean Strouse
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Jean Strouse [Strouse, Jean]

He never confined himself to a single scholarly adviser, a specific period, an artistic genre, or a uniform aesthetic. From the London bookseller Pearson, he bought in 1897 the manuscript ...
( Category: Historical October 8,2017 )
William S. Burroughs by Queer
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Queer

Chapter 6 Thursday Lee went to the races, on the recommendation of Tom Weston. Weston was an amateur astrologer, and he assured Lee the signs were right. Lee lost five ...
( Category: United States October 8,2017 )
The Collected George Orwell by George Orwell
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

3 When the miner comes up from the pit his face is so pale that it is noticeable even through the mask of coal dust. This is due to the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 8,2017 )
index by 1978 Women
epub |eng | | Author:1978 Women

I couldn’t believe it. Mercedes looked unconvinced. We went to a place around the corner. I ordered eggs over easy with bacon and coffee, wheat toast. Mercedes ordered hotcakes and ...
( Category: Bibles October 8,2017 )
Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence
epub |eng | | Author:Annie Spence

Lots of Love, Dear Marley and Me, Nope. Definitely(c). I Knew It, SUCCESS—PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS—Covey, Stephen R. —New Tricks, Old Dog Dear The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, JANUARY 2005 ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 8,2017 )
Annie John: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid
epub |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Jamaica Kincaid [Kincaid, Jamaica]

Chapter Six Somewhere, Belgium In the year I turned fifteen, I felt more unhappy than I had ever imagined anyone could be. It wasn’t the unhappiness of wanting a new ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 8,2017 )
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:William Faulkner [William Faulkner]

When he was twenty-three Mr. Hart--one of the gray-haired men who like to say "Now there's a boy"--gave him a guest card to the Sherry Island Golf Club for a ...
( Category: Literary October 8,2017 )
Arnold Weinstein - A Scream Goes Through The House by What Literature Teaches Us About Life
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:What Literature Teaches Us About Life [HTML] [Life, What Literature Teaches Us About]

Like Fitzgerald, Harrison has written her story of abuse "large," stereophonically as it were, so that we see numerous narrative bytes that are strange analogues to the action at hand, ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 8,2017 )
A Savage Place by Parker Robert B
epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Parker, Robert B. [Parker, Robert B.]

Chapter 16 HE WAS DEFINITELY fat, probably two hundred and fifty on a frame no more than five feet nine. On the other hand Vasili Alexeyev is fat too. The ...
( Category: Mystery October 8,2017 )
The Letters Of J. R. R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-04 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

184 To Sam Gamgee [On 13 March, a letter was written to Tolkien by a Mr Sam Gamgee of Brixton Road, London S.W.9: 'I hope you do not mind my ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 7,2017 )
Finn and Hengest by J. R. R. Tolkien
epub |eng | 2011-12-04 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

The Translations The Fragment ”................ [hor]nas byrnað.” [H]næf hleoþrode, heaþogeong cyning: ”Ne ðis ne dagað eastan, ne her draca ne fleogeð, ne her ðisse healle hornas ne byrnað; 5 ac ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 7,2017 )

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