History & Criticism
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]

Bruce Chatwin doesn’t even get near to that kind of responsiveness and suggestiveness in the three hundred pages of The Songlines. ‘Have you noticed how often a writer’s letters are ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-14 | Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski [Kapuściński, Ryszard]

The historic role of a hare? Scholars agree that it was the Scythians who stopped Darius’s march on Europe. If this hadn’t happened, the fate of the world might have ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Slavoj Zizek

Rickeracke! Rickeracke! Geht die Mühle mit Geknacke. Hier kann man sie noch erblicken, Fein geschroten und in Stücken. In the original illustration, the shapes are sneering obscenely, insisting in their ...
( Category: Philosophy June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Jan Potocki

The Twenty-ninth Day We reassembled early and as the gypsy chief was free, he took up once more the story of his adventures: THE GYPSY CHIEF’S STORY CONTINUED After telling ...
( Category: Literary June 15,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:MICHAEL GORRA

17. THE MAGAZINES MIDSUMMER, 1881. HENRY James has had his Venetian spring and brought The Portrait of a Lady to within a shout of its close. But an Italian July ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe [Cafe, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop]

Vesta Adcock ran over her colored yard man, Jesse Thiggins, on her way to her Eastern Star meeting on Tuesday. Jesse had been napping under a tree when Vesta made ...
( Category: Women's Fiction June 15,2017 )
epub | | | Author:David Drake & David Drake & David Drake [Drake, David]

Kinner's grin spread. "Uh-huh." He went off to the galley stove and shook down ashes vigorously, drowning the brittle chipping of the ice as Blair fell to work again. IV ...
( Category: Science Fiction June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Blake Bailey [Bailey, Blake]

AFTER HE’D FINISHED The Fall of Valor, Jackson had been eager to get started on his Proustian saga, What Happened. By then his magnum opus—“which will earn me (I truly ...
( Category: Authors June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-14 | Author:Thomas Kunkel [Kunkel, Thomas]

Ross made several runs at this during the war but the magazine never did skip any issues. When Harper's magazine published a profile of Ross, he took quite a ribbing ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]

The Character of Hermann Ott For this very reason the story of Hermann Ott that forms the backbone of the Diary, and is used by the author to offer the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Kevin R. Grazier [Grazier, Kevin R.]

Did they really talk that way? The Plot The story begins with the appearance of a mortally injured man in the Arizona desert. He is raving and suffering from strange ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 15,2017 )
epub | | | Author:DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Obviously no intellectual dud herself, Shanna’s self-deprecating comments make evident the symbolic capital of other members and reinforce Bourdieu’s thesis that the cultural consumption process is informed and limited by ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hakim Bey

* * * Against the Reproduction of Death One of the signs of that End Time so many seem to anticipate would consist of a fascination with all the most ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1962-01-02 | Author:Hugh Kenner [Kenner, Hugh]

T. S. Eliot, 1925-1935 by D. W. Harding This new volume [Collected Poems, 1909-1935] is an opportunity, not for a review -- for "The Poetry of T. S. Eliot" begins ...
( Category: Poetry June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Stuart Kelly [Kelly, Stuart]

Abraham Cowley {1618–1667} LIKE MANY A child prodigy, Abraham Cowley found his middle age to be fraught with the dark memories of dashed hopes. The seventh son of a posthumous ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )