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The Poetic Species by Edward Wilson Robert Hass Lee Briccetti
epub |eng | | Author:Edward Wilson, Robert Hass, Lee Briccetti [Wilson, Edward O; Hass, Robert; Briccetti, Lee]

APPENDIX A short list of great classic literary works of science or nature writing and what these books in particular reveal about our evolving attitudes toward science Robert Hass: You ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 15,2017 )
Letter to a Child Never Born by Oriana Fallaci
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Oriana Fallaci

All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 15,2017 )
Doctorow by E.L. Doctorow
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:E.L. Doctorow

When Betty told me she would go that night to Walter John Harmon, I didn’t think I reacted. But she looked into my eyes and must have seen something—some slight ...
( Category: Literary August 15,2017 )
The Post Office Lady with the Dragon Tattoo by Laurie Notaro
epub |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Laurie Notaro [Notaro, Laurie]

*The corn-nut lady, by the way, sent her package to some P.O. box in rural Louisiana, where I am positive that not only are corn nuts available, but they’re a ...
( Category: Humor August 15,2017 )
World Within The Word by William H. Gass
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:William H. Gass

It was these small movements of which Valéry was such a master, if we think of them as the movements of a mind which has practiced passage to the point ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed by Harlan Ellison
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Harlan Ellison

FEAR NOT YOUR ENEMIES This argument for gun control, written shortly after the December, 1980 murder of John Lennon, appeared in the adult fantasy magazine Heavy Metal, which is referenced ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 15,2017 )
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
epub |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

4 7 mai 18— Homme sans mœurs et sans religion! FROM A CORRESPONDENCE LIZAVETA IVANOVNA was sitting in her room, still in her ball dress, lost in thought. On returning ...
( Category: Classics August 15,2017 )
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Eliot Weinberger

One of the classics says that a horse’s ribs should be slender and numerous. An ordinary horse has only ten ribs. One with more than this is a noble steed. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car by William Kennedy
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:William Kennedy

* When I wrote this review for the National Observer it carried the headline “All of Life, Sense and Nonsense/ Fills an Argentine’s Daring Fable.” The only biographical information I ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 15,2017 )
The Way by Joseph Bruchac
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Bruchac [Bruchac Joseph]

Chapter 11 NEED TO KNOW The wise man knows what he knows. The sage knows what he does not. —Sifu Sahn “How many people does this seat?” I ask. Mom ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths August 15,2017 )
Three Plays by Alan Ayckbourn
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Ayckbourn

MARGE: Is Paid coming down? DIANA: I have no idea. I have no idea at all. I have done my best. I have now given up. Most probably it will ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays August 14,2017 )
The Complete Poems by William Blake
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-08-14 | Author:William Blake

30 Is this our Femin[in]e Portion the Six-fold Miltonic Female Terribly this Portion trembles before thee O awful Man Altho’ our Human Power can sustain the severe contentions Of Friendship, ...
( Category: Poetry August 14,2017 )
No End (Post Apocalypse Stock Market, Book 1) by Timothy Cox
epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Timothy Cox [Cox, Timothy]

(10) Wind swept leaves under cars; on a highway littered with molded steel. It was a long stretch of road many families once favored. It was the road that took ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 14,2017 )
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians by Twain Mark
epub |eng | 1989-08-14 | Author:Twain, Mark

Chapter 10 THE MORNING of the trial Tom’s aunt Polly stopped him and warn’t going to let him go; she said it warn’t any place for boys, and besides, they ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 14,2017 )
Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
epub |eng | 1974-08-14 | Author:Jane Austen

* On the third day after the ball, as Nanny at five minutes before three, was beginning to bustle into the parlour with the tray and the knife-case, she was ...
( Category: Classics August 14,2017 )

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