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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (2015) by Mark Twain
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

I have already told how he believed Clara was not speaking the truth when she told him that that notion was utterly groundless; & how she got Dr. Quintard to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 7,2017 )
Touched by a Vampire by Beth Felker Jones
epub |eng | 2009-09-06 | Author:Beth Felker Jones [Jones, Beth Felker]

MORMON FAMILY HOPE In many ways, the Cullen family reflects the hopes of the author’s Mormon faith. For Mormons, eternal hope is linked with family. Mormons believe that the family ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2017 )
Australians by Thomas Keneally
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:Thomas Keneally

CHAPTER 14 * ARRIVING AT THE END OF THINGS A convict arriving in Sydney or Hobart in the early to mid 1830s encountered prosperous-looking communities where women and men of ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania September 6,2017 )
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer
epub |eng | 2013-09-06 | Author:Seth Lerer [Lerer, Seth]

SEVEN Upriver I was still sitting at his desk, the phone down, his Ghurka address book still lying nearby. I thought of calling Mom back, thought of everything, but then ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2017 )
The Book of Repulsive Women by Djuna Barnes
epub |eng | 1915-11-01 | Author:Djuna Barnes [Barnes, Djuna]

Though her lips are vague as fancy In her youth— They bloom vivid and repulsive As the truth. Even vases in the making Are uncouth. —In Particular— WHAT loin-cloth, what ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic September 6,2017 )
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa & Howard Hibbett
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa & Howard Hibbett

An hour later he sat at breakfast with Toshihito and his father−in−law, Arihito. In front of him was a huge vat filled to the brim with a tremendous sea of ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 6,2017 )
The 210th Day by Soseki Natsume
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Soseki, Natsume [Soseki, Natsume]

Chapter IV * * * "Hey," says Kei, turning round, "This is where we turn off to the left—and then at last we start our climb, don't we?" "Is it ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2017 )
I Am a Cat (Tuttle Classics) by Natsume Soseki
mobi |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Natsume, Soseki [Natsume, Soseki]

VOLUME III I WHEN I WAS describing my fence trotting exercises,I must have mentioned that bamboo fence which encloses my master’s garden. Beyond that fence to the south of us ...
( Category: Humor September 6,2017 )
Inside My Glass Doors by Natsume Soseki
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Natsume Soseki

21 MY MEMORIES of my house are generally of a rustic nature. They also include a touch of desolation and melancholy, to such an extent that the other day, when ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2017 )
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXV A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION When the king traveled for change of air, or made a progress, or visited a distant noble whom he wished to bankrupt with the cost ...
( Category: Classics September 6,2017 )
The Reef by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | 1912-09-06 | Author:Edith Wharton [Wharton, Edith]

XIX He left her at the door of Madame de Chantelle’s sitting–room, and plunged out alone into the rain. The wind flung about the stripped tree–tops of the avenue and ...
( Category: Classics September 6,2017 )
Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
epub |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Toni Morrison

I want to suggest that these concerns—autonomy, authority, newness and difference, absolute power—not only become the major themes and presumptions of American literature, but that each one is made possible ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2017 )
The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993 by Toni Morrison
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Toni Morrison [Morrison, Toni]

YOUR MAJESTIES, YOUR HIGHNESSES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I entered this hall pleasantly haunted by those who have entered it before me. That company of laureates is both daunting and welcoming, ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2017 )
The Dancing Mind by Toni Morrison
epub |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Toni Morrison

I have always doubted and disliked the therapeutic claims made on behalf of writing and writers. Writing never made me happy. Writing never made me suffer. I have had misfortunes ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 6,2017 )
At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Adam Gopnik

Our meeting was, in retrospect, the great turning point of my life “in town.” A mentor can seem to resolve our problems—but even more to make our problems seem to ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2017 )

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