History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Eli Amir [Amir, Eli]

The conversation was lively and flowed easily. Professor Shadmi and Dr Dovrat talked at length about ancient times, the growth of the myths around Moses, Jesus and Mohammed, as well ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-04 | Author:Peter Altenberg [Altenberg, Peter]

Elevator The elevator is still a great mystery to me. I am not so dumb as to spoil the thrill of the blessings of modern culture by allowing myself to ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Charlotte Brontë

( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-28 | Author:Michael Sims

Chapter 12 FOREKNOWLEDGE Confronted by new challenges, surrounded by new acquaintances—including the characters in the barnyard, who were later to reappear in Charlotte’s Web—I was suddenly seeing, feeling, and listening ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Samuel R. Delany [Delany, Samuel R.]

—Ron Silliman, “Carbon,” from The Alphabet After Odysseus recounts to Naussica’s father King Alcinous how the crow-queen Circe, “dread goddess of human speech,” exhorted him to leave her isle of ...
( Category: LGBT August 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Clarice Lispector

No longer even fear, no longer even fright. Had I vomited my last human remnants? And I was no longer asking for help. The diurnal desert was before me. And ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Anne Fadiman [Fadiman, Anne]

My own power mower, George, does not understand the thrill of such discoveries.. He does not think me a lovable helpmeet when I wander past his computer screen and find ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-12-31 | Author:John Dunning [Dunning, John]

23 I had come to the store late that day after a tough round of fruitless bookscouting. The days were getting shorter: we were off daylight saving time and darkness ...
( Category: Mystery August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1977-05-16 | Author:Ron Carlson [Carlson, Ron]

28 At night still, I’d lie in my bed, but I couldn’t believe I’d made it. In the period before sleep when people do their best thinking and from which ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Ben Tarnoff

III EXILE Portrait of Harte published on the cover of Every Saturday , January 14, 1871. SEVEN America greeted the news of Bret Harte’s departure from California in 1871 with ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-09-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]

11TH CHORUS And if you dont like the tone of my poems You can go jump in the lake. I have been empowered to lay my hand On your shoulder ...
( Category: Poetry August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Tim Vicary [Vicary, Tim]

After her visit, Merrick began to sing. He could not sing easily, of course, because of his mouth, but all that day there was a strange, happy noise in his ...
( Category: English as a Second Language August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Beaumont

Apology for Vagrants The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a period in which, because of the systematic displacement of people through enclosures, and as a result of the ...
( Category: Sociology August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:Friedrich Holderlin [Holderlin, Friedrich]

SECOND VOLUME μη φυναι, τον απαντα νικ λογον. το δ’επει φαν βηναι κειϑεν, οϑεν περ ηκει, πολυ δευτερον ως ταχιςα. . . . Not to be born surpasses thought and ...
( Category: European August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1937-01-01 | Author:Jorge Amado [Amado, Jorge]

Events moved quickly because Raul had to take a trip to Rio de Janeiro on important legal business. And Legless thought there was no better time for the raid. On ...
( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )