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The Parthenon Bomber by Christos Chrissopoulos
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Christos Chrissopoulos

WE HAVE DETERMINED 1. To fix as our clear objectives the destruction by explosion of ancient monuments and the dissemination of propaganda against antiquities as well as against everything we ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 26,2017 )
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini & Hosseini
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Khaled Hosseini & Hosseini

NW: My mother taught me in Kabul when I was little. She spoke only French to me. We had lessons every day. It was very hard on me when she ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
The Knight by Gene Wolfe
epub | | 2005-08-01 | Author:Gene Wolfe [Wolfe, Gene]

"Here, sir? He'll be outward bound under all sail." "Look for him anyway. There must be help of some kind here, a cook and so on. Look for them, too. ...
( Category: Fantasy August 26,2017 )
The Last Empire by Gore Vidal
epub |eng | 2002-08-13 | Author:Gore Vidal

* * * To further undo JFK’s delicate physical balance, along with the cortisone that he took regularly, there was his reliance on—addiction to, in fact—the amphetamines that the shady ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 26,2017 )
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin Classics) by Chandler Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Chandler, Robert [Chandler, Robert]

TEFFI (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya, 1872–1952) Teffi was born in St Petersburg into a distinguished family that treasured literature; she and her three sisters all became writers. Her elder sister was ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
Russian Short Stories - From Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler (Editor)
mobi |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Robert Chandler (Editor)

LOVE It was during the wonderful days of my ninth spring – days that were long and saturated with life, full to the brim. Everything during these days was interesting, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
The Rise of Abraham Cahan by Seth Lipsky
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Seth Lipsky [Lipsky, Seth]

A few days later voters filled Madison Square Garden to celebrate. “I do not expect to work wonders in Congress,” London said at the event. “I shall, however, say a ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
epub |eng | 2017-05-05 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter

Mrs Moore: No. It was much colder the year my grandfather died. Myself: Oh I’m not quoting from one of those chatty newspaper articles about the weather, but from the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 26,2017 )
Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor by John Allen Paulos
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-03 | Author:John Allen Paulos [Paulos, John Allen]

4 Humor, Grammar, and Philosophy Reversal or permutation of the grammar of a sentence often results in humor. I will call this sometimes tiresome type of humor grammatical (or combinatorial) ...
( Category: Mathematics August 26,2017 )
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War by Lee Laurie
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-10-27 | Author:Lee, Laurie [Lee, Laurie]

The boys were up early, at about half past four, coughing and stamping around the barn. The doors were thrown open to let in the cold pink dawn, and the ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
The Secret History of Jane Eyre by John Pfordresher
epub |eng | | Author:John Pfordresher

Charlotte Brontë began her first, full-fledged novel during the winter of 1846. At the same time, Emily was working on Wuthering Heights and Anne on Agnes Grey. Charlotte’s first working-title ...
( Category: British & Irish August 26,2017 )
Dashiell Hammett - 1929 Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
epub |eng | | Author:Dashiell Hammett [Hammett, Dashiell]

XV. Cedar Hill Inn Mickey Linehan used the telephone to wake me a little after noon."We're here," he told me. "Where's the reception committee?" "Probably stopped to get a rope. ...
( Category: Mystery August 26,2017 )
Perdita by Paula Byrne
epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Paula Byrne [Paula Byrne]

She paid a heavy price for her personal and political commitment to Fox. Throughout the campaign she was pilloried mercilessly in caricatures, pamphlets, squibs, and newspaper paragraphs. A caricature called ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Warner
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Warner [Warner, Simon]

Notes 1Kerouac appeared on the television show Steve Allen on 16 November 1959. See Miles, 1998, p. 263. 2Maynard G. Krebs was the resident beatnik on the 1959 TV sitcom ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-23 | Author:Enrique Vila-Matas [Vila-Matas, Enrique]

I wish to free myself from Montano’s malady, but hopefully the gods and Kafka won’t let me. I wish to free myself from the malady, and that is why I ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )

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