History & Criticism
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Harrison

The Last Good Country It all began quite accidentally. I wanted to go farther north than my northern Michigan home for a few days of rest from nothing, a condition ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew F. Delmont

Figure 13. Haley signing copies of Roots at mall in Los Angeles, 1977. Bettmann/Corbis/AP Images. Haley’s plentiful notes, letters, and drafts offer tantalizing hints of the people, incidents, and themes ...
( Category: Television September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:A Silence in the Heavens (epub)

Lexa said. “If I’d had any sense, I’d have told him, ‘jail,’ and still be asleep in my bed tonight.” “If the Steel Wolves are coming, jail won’t be any ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 23,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:A Silence in the Heavens (mobi)

Lexa said. “If I’d had any sense, I’d have told him, ‘jail,’ and still be asleep in my bed tonight.” “If the Steel Wolves are coming, jail won’t be any ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 23,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-07 | Author:The Crimson Fairy Book

The Gold-Bearded Man * Once upon a time there lived a great king who had a wife and one son whom he loved very much. The boy was still young ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales September 23,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-17 | Author:Colm Toibin & Carmen Callil [Toibin, Colm]

David Lodge was born in London. He has worked for many years as an academic. His comic gifts are apparent in early novels such as The British Museum is Falling ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 23,2017 )
azw | | 2010-03-25 | Author:William Butler Yeats

* * * CATS * * * SEANCHAN THE BARD AND THE KING OF THE CATS BY LADY WILDE When Seanchan, the renowned Bard, was made Ard-Filé or Chief Poet ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales September 23,2017 )
azw | | 2011-02-13 | Author:William Butler Yeats

Far from life and passion laid; Yet does sweet remembrance thrill All my shadowy being still.' Presently, because of his great love, he gave up his throne to Conchobar, her ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-06-22 | Author:Cooper, Bill [Cooper, Bill]

Postscript The appearance of the name Amel-Marduk in tablet BM 34113=sp 213 is interesting. Amel-Marduk was the eldest son of Nebuchadnezzar and hence the Crown Prince. Undoubtedly, he took over ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 23,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Alice Adams

Looking for Work The job search is something that I try not to think about, along with sex, general deprivation. It is what I should be doing, naturally; and in ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-20 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

What did I do about any of this? I feel like Mittler, the fifth character in Elective Affinities, the outsider who, on the one hand, will not “waste his time ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 23,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Mark Z. Danielewski

Day 2: 16:42 [Outside tent] The seven dwarves went to the Vatican and when the Pope answered the door, Dopey stepped forward: “Your Excellency,” he said. “I wonder if you ...
( Category: Literary September 22,2017 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

It is this third learning that is the most difficult, the most dangerous, and the most powerful — and the one Pinocchio will never reach. Pressures of all sorts—the temptations ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Steiner

VII It used to be thought that the nineteenth-century novel, at least until Zola, had avoided the more scabrous and pathological aspects of erotic experience. Dostoevsky was cited as a ...
( Category: Russian September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Pier Paolo Pasolini

57. Rome. Exterior. (Day.) Some ‘Epicureans and Stoics’ are seated at tables at Caffè Rosati on the Via Veneto. (Rome is, by analogy, Athens.) They argue among themselves ironically and ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 22,2017 )