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The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by J. M. Synge
epub |eng | | Author:J. M. Synge

ACT TWO SCENE, as before. Brilliant morning light. CHRISTY, looking bright and cheerful, is cleaning a girl’s boots. CHRISTY (to himself, counting jugs on dresser). Half a hundred beyond. Ten ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays August 28,2017 )
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung
epub |eng | 2008-06-01 | Author:Alice Pung

Destiny Shalini Akhil I was very young when my obsession started; sparked by the cartoon version, it intensified with the television series. Every weekend I’d be rendered speechless from the ...
( Category: World Literature August 28,2017 )
Luke Skywalker Can't Read by Ryan Britt
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Ryan Britt

Imagine There’s No Frodo (I Wonder If You Can) When I was three or so, my parents used to drop me off with a nice Mormon couple who named their ...
( Category: Humor August 28,2017 )
Lit Up by David Denby
epub |eng | | Author:David Denby

CHAPTER ELEVEN BEACON, MARCH: VIKTOR E. FRANKL Where Was Joy? Rebellion (If That’s What It Was) Viktor E. Frankl and the Meaning of Life Hier ist kein Warum A Death ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M. G. Lord
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:M. G. Lord [Lord, M. G.]

Cleopatra’s problems with narration and structure, however, stem from more than the feminine mystique. The film was made during a painful upheaval in the movie business. By 1960, the studio ...
( Category: Movies August 28,2017 )
A House to Let by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 1858-01-01 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

* "I don't triumph," said Jarber, folding up the second manuscript, and looking hard at Trottle. "I don't triumph over this worthy creature. I merely ask him if he is ...
( Category: World Literature August 28,2017 )
The Little French Bistro by Nina George
epub |eng | 2017-06-13 | Author:Nina George

Marianne had been waiting on the quayside for twenty minutes by the time Yann picked her up. She simply hadn’t been able to bear sitting in her room any longer, ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
Rereadings by Anne Fadiman
epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Anne Fadiman

One of the most popular oracles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages was the sortes Vergilianae, in which the petitioner opened a copy of the Aeneid and chose a ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
Memoirs of a beatnik by Di Prima Diane
epub, pdf |eng | 1988-08-28 | Author:Di Prima, Diane

Country Spring Fuck The Pill: A Digression On his first trip to town, Billy had embarrassedly purchased some Trojans, and he used them on our first night in our cottage-and, ...
( Category: Regional U.S August 28,2017 )
The Man with the Getaway Face: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels) by Richard Stark
mobi |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Richard Stark [Stark, Richard]

Parker looked them over. The Sauer still had its serial number, but it had been filed off the other two. He looked closer at the .32 and saw that acid ...
( Category: Mystery August 28,2017 )
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth by A. O. Scott
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:A. O. Scott [Scott, A. O.]

In a cold but stuffy bed-sitting room littered with cigarette ends and half-empty cups of tea, a man in a moth-eaten dressing-gown sits at a rickety table, trying to find ...
( Category: Philosophy August 28,2017 )
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Daniel Stashower [Stashower, Daniel]

17 The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound “Holmes!” I cried. “Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive?” —DR. WATSON IN “THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
Borges at Eighty: Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges [Borges, Jorge Luis]

8 Time Is the Essential Mystery University of Chicago, March 1980 I think that time is the one essential mystery. Other things may be mysterious. Space is unimportant. You can ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
Bamboo by William Boyd
mobi |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:William Boyd [Boyd, William]

pumped by its own fetishism, by billionaires competing in the auction room like mountain goats clashing horns over possession of a crag or a mate. What has made his criticism ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
Lara by Anna Pasternak
epub |eng | 2016-07-05 | Author:Anna Pasternak

What is the hour? It’s dark. Must be three. Again, I fear, I shall not sleep a wink. The cowherd in the village will crack his whip at dawn, And ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )

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