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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:N. Scott Momaday [Momaday, N. Scott & Momaday, Al]

Page 37 The great central figure of the kado, or Sun Dance, ceremony is the taime. This is a small image, less than 2 feet in length, representing a human ...
( Category: Americas August 18,2017 )
Dolly by Susan Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Susan Hill [Hill, Susan]

12 Leonora ran. Her footsteps went thundering up the stairs and they could hear them, even louder, even faster, as she reached the top flights. The door of her bedroom ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 18,2017 )
Threshold of Fire by Hella S. Haasse
epub |eng | 1993-08-18 | Author:Hella S. Haasse

2. Like a ghost surrounded by malignant spectres in a borderland of death, I wandered through the Imperial heart of the City which had for years seemed more unreal to ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 18,2017 )
Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig by Oliver Matuschek
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Oliver Matuschek [Matuschek, Oliver]

Seeing the photographs later, I realised that the road we had travelled together was the very one where the murderers lay in wait, not long afterwards, for the same car: ...
( Category: Historical August 18,2017 )
Tom Sharpe by Vintage Stuff
mobi |eng | 1982-07-01 | Author:Vintage Stuff

Chapter 14 For the next hour the occupants of the Château Carmagnac were subjected to some of the horrors of Peregrine's literary education. The fact that they were a strange ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 18,2017 )
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other Excursions by Martin Amis
epub |eng | 1995-05-01 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

A pair of lovers was its subject — the usual depraved-desolate couple in a typical setting of tombstones and yews. The man was brutal-looking and the long-haired woman (I think ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 18,2017 )
The English Novel: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Terry Eagleton [Eagleton, Terry]

9 THOMAS HARDY Not all that long ago, a standard account of Thomas Hardy might have run rather like this: Hardy was a self-educated author who struggled his way up ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 18,2017 )
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
mobi |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

II At the restaurant, I hardly recognized Liebkind Bendel. Even though he wore a yellow jacket, a red shirt, and a tie with golden dots, his face looked as pale ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 18,2017 )
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
epub |eng | 1900-01-02 | Author:William Shakespeare [Shakespeare, William]

'For further I could say this man's untrue, And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling; Heard where his plants in others' orchards grew; Saw how deceits were gilded in ...
( Category: Poetry August 17,2017 )
The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works by William Shakespeare & Ann Thompson & David Scott Kastan
epub |eng | 1998-08-17 | Author:William Shakespeare & Ann Thompson & David Scott Kastan

( Category: Dramas & Plays August 17,2017 )
Stotan! by Chris Crutcher
epub |eng | 1986-08-17 | Author:Chris Crutcher

The dance was great. I took Devnee to the roof of the Ridpath Hotel for dinner; it has a real nice view of the city and is formal and grown-up ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 17,2017 )
Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd
epub |eng | | Author:Declan Kiberd [Declan Kiberd]

SEXUAL POLITICS SEXUAL POLITICS In the 1920s James Joyce liked to joke that his country was entering "the devil's era"; and historians now tend to agree that the next three ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
Sartre by Iris Murdoch
mobi |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Iris Murdoch

* * * 1 What is Literature? pp. 210–11. Quotations from What is Literature? are taken from Bernard Frechtman’s translation. All other translations quoted are my own. 2 I owe ...
( Category: Philosophy August 17,2017 )
Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara by Tim Robinson
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Tim Robinson [Tim Robinson]

THE PERSON The Synges came to Ireland in the seventeenth century from England, produced a succession of bishops for the Protestant Church of Ireland, and married land. J.M. Synge’s father, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 17,2017 )
Mimesis by Erich Auerbach Edward W. Said Willard R. Trask
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Erich Auerbach,Edward W. Said,Willard R. Trask

12 L’HUMAINE CONDITION LES autres forment l’homme: je le recite; et en représente un particulier bien mal formé, et lequel si j’avoy à façonner de nouveau, je ferois vrayment bien ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 17,2017 )

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