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The Dedalus Book of Decadence: (Moral Ruins) by Brian Stableford
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Stableford

If there is any European water where I long to be, It is a dark cold pool where a sad child might play Launching into the scented twilight, upon an ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 12,2017 )
The Book Lover's Cookbook by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger & Janet Jensen
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Shaunda Kennedy Wenger & Janet Jensen [Wenger, Shaunda Kennedy & Jensen, Janet]

2 cups fresh green beans, ends removed, cut into 1-inch pieces 1 16-ounce can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed 1 16-ounce can kidney beans, drained and rinsed ½ cup yellow ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 11,2017 )
Desiring Arabs by Massad Joseph A
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Massad, Joseph A. [Massad, Joseph A.]

The calamity that afflicted Ayatullah Kanʿan Makiyyah was that people in Nasiriyah did not respond to his call on behalf of the half-sodomites. I believe that the reason was that ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 11,2017 )
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-07-01 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

There were several canal-boats at Cromwell's Falls passing through the locks, for which we waited. In the forward part of one stood a brawny New Hampshire man, leaning on his ...
( Category: Classics September 11,2017 )
Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
epub |eng | 2006-03-08 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft [Wollstonecraft, Mary]

CHAPTER 9 "I RESUME my pen to fly from thought. I was married; and we hastened to London. I had purposed taking one of my sisters with me; for a ...
( Category: Literary September 11,2017 )
The wilderness hunter by Theodore Roosevelt
epub |eng | | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

On another occasion the same two hunters nearly met with a frightful death, being overtaken by a vast herd of stampeded buffaloes. All animals that go in herds are subject ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 11,2017 )
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Theodore Roosevelt [Roosevelt, Theodore]

Together with these great beasts belonging to stocks that in recent geologic time had immigrated hither from the Old World and from the southern half of the New World was ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 11,2017 )
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delany
epub |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Samuel R Delany [Delany, Samuel R]

They were roasting dinner." After a while I said, "You must have lived in town a fair while." "Longer than I'd like to admit," Spider said. "If you call it ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 11,2017 )
The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-09-18 | Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm]

The “kingdom of heaven” is a state of the heart—not something to come “beyond the world” or “after death.” The whole idea of natural death is absent from the Gospels: ...
( Category: Philosophy September 11,2017 )
The great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
epub, mobi |eng | 1953-02-14 | Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Francis Scott]

Chapter 6. About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby’s door and asked him if he had anything to say. “Anything to say ...
( Category: Classics September 11,2017 )
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
epub, mobi |eng | 1961-03-14 | Author:J.D. Salinger [Salinger, J.D.]

( Category: Short Stories September 11,2017 )
Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-07-01 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to Queequeg it was quite a different object. "When you see ...
( Category: Classics September 11,2017 )
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
epub |eng | 1999-02-14 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk [Palahniuk, Chuck]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Jump way back to a fashion shoot at this junkyard full of dirty wrecked cars where Evie and me have to climb around on the wrecks wearing Hermaun ...
( Category: Contemporary September 11,2017 )
Comics As Philosophy by Jeff McLaughlin (Editor)
epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Jeff McLaughlin (Editor)

126 Deconstructing the Hero 37. It is perhaps not too great an over-simplification to point out that a significant strain of the intellectual (or “spiritual,” geistlich) history of the last ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 11,2017 )
The Watchmen and Philosophy {a Rorschach Test} by Mark D. White
epub |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Mark D. White [White, Mark D.]

A TI M E LY E N CO U NTE R: D R. MAN HATTAN AN D H E N R I B E R G S O N Christopher ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 11,2017 )

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