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Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 by Jorge Luis Borges
epub |eng | 1964-03-15 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges [Borges, Jorge Luis]

—Translated by James E. Irby The Modesty of History On the twentieth of September, 1792, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (who had accompanied the Duke of Weimar to Paris on a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 17,2017 )
Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary by Schelly Bill
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Schelly, Bill [Schelly, Bill]

Lois Lane and Superman. Art by Kurt Schaffenberger. ™ and © DC Comics. Schaffenberger had a slick, precise style, and was especially adept at drawing women—not just their faces, but ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 17,2017 )
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Caryl Churchill

HARRY and ELLEN go out. JOSHUA brings CLIVE a drink. JOSHUA The governess and your wife, sir. CLIVE What’s that, Joshua? JOSHUA She talks of love to your wife, sir. ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays September 17,2017 )
Dead and Gone by Dorothy Simpson
epub |eng | | Author:Dorothy Simpson

TWELVE Agon ran his tongue over his lips. ‘Sure you don’t want a drink? No? Mind if I get myself one?’ They watched him walk across the grass to the ...
( Category: Mystery September 17,2017 )
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature by Brian Stableford
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-03-31 | Author:Brian Stableford

14 Wells, H. G. The Shape of Things to Come. London: Hutchinson, 1933, p. 428. 15 Bell, Neil. The Seventh Bowl. 2nd ed. London, Collins, 1934, p. 67-68. (The first ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 17,2017 )
The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:Assia Djebar [Djebar, Assia]

The murderous husband, because of his broken heart, has not budged from the palace of the caliph, who has grown so fond of him. Only the father leaves the palace. ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 17,2017 )
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:Veronica Henry

11 After a busy week, Emilia was looking forward to her first rehearsal the next Sunday with the Peasebrook Quartet, although she was nervous, too. Marlowe had been round earlier ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 17,2017 )
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Various & Hollis Robbins & Henry Louis Gates & Hollis Robbins & Henry Louis Gates
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Various & Hollis Robbins & Henry Louis Gates & Hollis Robbins & Henry Louis Gates

Newfound Poems from Forest Leaves (ca. 1840) SOURCE: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Haman and Mordecai,” “A Dream,” “The Felon’s Dream,” Forest Leaves (Baltimore: James Young, ca. 1840). “Haman and Mordecai” ...
( Category: United States September 17,2017 )
Images and Shadows by Iris Origo
epub |eng | 2017-09-17 | Author:Iris Origo [Iris Origo]

6 Reading and Learning … As pines keep the shape of the wind even when the wind has fled and is no longer there so words guard the shape of ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 17,2017 )
Plateforme by Michel Houellebecq
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Michel Houellebecq [Houellebecq, Michel]

5 Durant la deuxième quinzaine de juin, Valérie eut à nouveau énormément de travail ; le problème de travailler avec des pays multiples, c’est qu’avec les décalages horaires on pourrait ...
( Category: European September 17,2017 )
Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Jeremy Mercer

That evening, there was a reading at the bookstore, so after closing the antiquarian room, I found a seat among the crowd. An Irish woman was going to recite Joyce ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 17,2017 )
Serafina's Stories by Rudolfo Anaya
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rudolfo Anaya

FOURTEEN Two Compadres Long ago there lived two compadres who were different in many ways. Vicente was an honest merchant who had acquired a small fortune. He thanked God for ...
( Category: United States September 17,2017 )
The Big Fat Joke Book by Khushwant Singh
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Khushwant Singh [Khushwant, Singh]

A husband and wife were quarrelling. The wife got up in a temper, stuffed a few saris in her bag and was marching out of the house when the husband ...
( Category: Humor September 17,2017 )
Guns, germs and Steel by Diamond Jared
epub | | 2009-12-28 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Diamond, Jared]

Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel The uses of these telegraphic, clumsy, ambiguous early scripts were as restricted as the number of their users. Anyone hoping to discover how Sumerians ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 17,2017 )
William Wordsworth by Hunter Davies
epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Hunter Davies

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US One of the many new poems published in the 1807 collection. He was not aware, when writing, how viciously the outside world would ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 17,2017 )

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