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Orwell's Revenge by Peter Huber
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Huber

CHAPTER 18 Blair smelled the rats long before he saw them. It was a foul, musty smell of fetid droppings and wet fur. He heard them scuffling evilly behind the ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 6,2017 )
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Franco Moretti

IV The central morphological point of ‘Conjectures’ was the contrast between the rise of the novel in the core as an ‘autonomous development’, and the rise in the periphery as ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
The Bourgeois by Franco Moretti
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Franco Moretti

3 Fog 1. NAKED, SHAMELESS, AND DIRECT The modern bourgeoisie, reads the famous encomium in the Communist Manifesto, ‘has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; ...
( Category: Sociology October 6,2017 )
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road (Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction) by Sara Spurgeon
mobi |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Sara Spurgeon [Spurgeon, Sara]

Second Dialogue: Wells Proof that Chigurh has given the gas station man a Socratic gift— however terrifying—follows when we see him kill Wells. The film elides Chigurh’s explanation to Wells ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
V by Thomas Pynchon
epub | | 2010-07-19 | Author:Thomas Pynchon [Pynchon, Thomas]

Princess of coquettes: Deviations, fantasies and secret amulets. Only try to go Further than you've gone If you never want to live to see another dawn. Seventeen is cruel, Yet ...
( Category: Literary October 6,2017 )
Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace
epub |eng | 1996-12-15 | Author:David Foster Wallace [Wallace, David Foster]

SELECTED SNIPPETS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL-RESIDENT-INFORMAL-INTERFACE MOMENTS OF D. W. GATELY, LIVE-IN STAFF, ENNET HOUSE DRUG AND ALCOHOL RECOVERY HOUSE, ENFIELD MA, ON AND OFF FROM JUST AFTER the BROOKLINE YOUNG ...
( Category: Contemporary October 6,2017 )
The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON (The Belgariad / The Malloreon) by Eddings Leigh;Eddings David
mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Eddings, Leigh;Eddings, David [Eddings, Leigh;Eddings, David]

It has been observed by certain breeders of livestock that a strain is severely weakened by too much inbreeding. It is unfortunately true that the touchy political situation in Arendia ...
( Category: Fantasy October 6,2017 )
Bookmarked for Death by Lorna Barrett
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-05 | Author:Lorna Barrett [Barrett, Lorna]

She unlocked the door, trailed through the darkened store with only the dim security lamps overhead to light the way, and headed up the stairs. She got to the top ...
( Category: Mystery October 6,2017 )
Saul Bellow by Taylor Benjamin; Bellow Saul
mobi |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Taylor, Benjamin; Bellow, Saul [Taylor, Benjamin; Bellow, Saul]

1968 To Edward Shils January 20, 1968 Chicago Dear Ed: I spoke to your mother yesterday. She complains that she is feeling weak, but she sounded better to me. Her ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
A shorter Pepys by Pepys Samuel
epub |eng | 1955-10-06 | Author:Pepys, Samuel

of the victory is too great lor me presently to comprehend. June gth. —To White Hall, and in my way met with Mr. Moore, who eases me in one point ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 6,2017 )
A sport and a pastime by Salter James
epub |eng | 1967-10-06 | Author:Salter, James

are sickened by their act. They sit on the curbstone and weep. In the evenings he's home before midnight. He almost never spends the night with her. Her bed is ...
( Category: Literary October 6,2017 )
Father Mine by J.R. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-13 | Author:J.R. Ward [Ward, J.R.]

Thing was, though, she missed being Z’s shellan. Missed waking up with him moving on top of her, hot and hungry. Missed the feel of his fangs going deep into ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
Here Be Dragons by Stefan Ekman
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-05 | Author:Stefan Ekman

NATURE, MAGIC, AND MISFITS: WILDERNESS WITHIN NEWFORD36 Canadian writer Charles de Lint’s city of Newford is, according to the blurb of the collection Moonlight and Vines (1999), a “quintessential North ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 5,2017 )
Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:William Wordsworth [Wordsworth, William]

And on that morning, through the grass, And by the steaming rills, We travelled merrily to pass A day among the hills. ‘Our work,’ said I, ‘was well begun; Then, ...
( Category: Poetry October 5,2017 )
The Annotated Emma by Jane Austen
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

Chapter Eleven “Harriet, poor Harriet!”—Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas1 which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business ...
( Category: Classics October 5,2017 )

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