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Uncensored by Joyce Carol Oates
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

HAS THERE been, in recent memory, a first story collection, American or otherwise, as ambitious, varied, and compelling as John Murray’s A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies? These eight ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
The Life and Times of the Real Winnie-The-Pooh: The Teddy Bear Who Inspired A. A. Milne by Shirley Harrison
epub |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Shirley Harrison [Harrison, Shirley]

Chapter Twelve The Doldrums ON 6 JANUARY 1930, Pooh took his first steps towards America. Literary agent Stephen Slesinger had arrived in London to visit the Milnes. He was a ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles June 14,2017 )
Shakespeare and the Book Trade by Erne Lukas & Lukas Erne
epub |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Erne, Lukas & Lukas Erne [Erne]

The chief publishers of Shakespeare’s plays James Roberts, like Richard Field, could have published several of Shakespeare’s works but chose not to do so. He was the playbill printer from ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Andrew Taylor [Taylor, Andrew]

In the evening Whichcote laid a coin at one end of the mantelpiece. At the other end of Mrs. Phear’s mantelpiece stood a lighted candle, the only one in the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 14,2017 )
The Confindence-Man by Herman Melville
mobi |eng | 2010-08-27 | Author:Herman Melville

Page 260 and his book was praised for its “fidelity to nature” and its “thorough impression and conviction of reality.” The “reflection” in it (a potential danger) was of the ...
( Category: Classics June 14,2017 )
Stephens Plays, 2 by Stephens Simon
epub |eng | 2010-05-12 | Author:Stephens, Simon

Two Danny and Marley. Danny Lee told me that you went to see him. He told me that you didn’t want to see me any more. That you told him ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays June 14,2017 )
The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-27 | Author:Vivian Gornick

<><><><><><><><><><><><> She was born in 1873 in Virginia, into a family of highly literate country people (both grandmothers knew Latin and Greek), people who took as their birthright the idea ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 14,2017 )
U and I by Nicholson Baker
epub, mobi |eng | 2077-08-23 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

[and in Updike’s real version: Then Sally flew; she became a bird, a heroine. She took the sky on her back, levelled out on the cloudless prairie above the clouds—boiling, ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past by Gregory Nagy
epub |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Gregory Nagy [Nagy, Gregory]

houtos ho Kroisos barbarôn prôtos tôn hêmeis idmen tous men katestrepsato Hellênôn es phorou apagôgên... Herodotus 1.6.2 This Croesus was the first barbarian ever, within our knowledge, to reduce some ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
El camino by Delibes Miguel
epub, mobi | | 2009-12-12 | Author:Delibes, Miguel [Delibes, Miguel]

X X I I I I El tío Aurelio, el hermano de su madre, les escribió desde Extremadura. El tío Aurelio se marchó a Extremadura porque tenía asma y le ...
( Category: 20th Century June 14,2017 )
Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan
epub |eng | 2007-12-23 | Author:Maurice Francis Egan [Egan, Maurice Francis]

Dickens would not have done the scene quite this way; he could not have so conceived it, and he might have overdone it, but Booth Tarkington gets it just right. ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2017 )
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
epub |eng | 1979-01-02 | Author:Gregory Nagy [Nagy, Gregory]

kuklou d' exeptan barupentheos argaleoio. I rushed out of the woeful kuklos of heavy penthos [grief]. Whether we translate kuklos abstractly as "circle" or concretely as "wheel," it clearly applies ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2017 )
Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954-1983 by Bernard Diederich & Richard Greene & Pico Iyer
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Bernard Diederich & Richard Greene & Pico Iyer [Diederich, Bernard & Greene, Richard & Iyer, Pico]

In response, John Scali, US Ambassador to the UN and a former television newsman, said Torrijos was ‘knocking on an open door’ and that the ‘world knows the United States ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 13,2017 )
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 by Dave Eggers
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dave Eggers [Eggers, Dave]

There are places where Ebert exists as the Ebert he remembers. In 2008, when he was in the middle of his worst battles and wouldn't be able to make the ...
( Category: United States June 13,2017 )
Ends of Enlightenment by John Bender
epub |eng | 2012-08-08 | Author:John Bender [Bender, John]

CHAPTER 8 Impersonal Violence The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in Caleb Williams With a Postscript on My Gross Anatomy Lab My subject is the violence habituated within ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2017 )

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