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The Undiscovered Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov

THE GRATEFUL GERMAN IONCE KNEW A GRATEFUL GERMAN. The first time I met him was in Frankfurt-am-Main. He was walking along Dummstrasse with a monkey on a leash. One could ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
Collected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Adrienne Rich [Rich, Adrienne]

(not from these, surely, Protestant separatists, Jew-baiters, nightriders who fired in Irasburg in nineteen-sixty-eight on a black family newly settled in these hills) From where the dew grows thick late ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Blood, Bread, and Poetry by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 1994-07-17 | Author:Adrienne Rich [Rich, Adrienne]

I wrote this essay in ig82 for Evelyn Torton Beck’s Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology. It was later reprinted in Fathers, an anthology edited by Ursula Owen for Virago ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory February 24,2017 )
An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

1990–1991 II SHE goes through what must be gone through: that catalogue she is pitching out mildew spores velvet between the tiles soft hairs, nests, webs in corners, edges of ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

III I saw a beggar leaning on his crutch, He said to me: Why do you ask for so much? I saw a woman leaning in a door, She said, ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Your Native Land, Your Life by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

What Was, Is; What Might Have Been, Might Be What’s kept. What’s lost. A snap decision. Burn the archives. Let them rot. Begin by going ten years back. A woman ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

I am traveling at the speed of time, along the Massachusetts Turnpike. For months, for years, for most of my life, I have been hovering like an insect against the ...
( Category: General February 24,2017 )
What Is Found There by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

One rainy day in the spring of 1960, the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan arrived at my door, sent to me by our mutual friend Denise Levertov. I had a ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Fox by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 2001-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

Not moved yet she and hers her child inside gazing at a screen and she a reader once now a woman foreseeing elbows sore with the weight she has placed ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Dark Fields of the Republic by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Altogether the angels arrive for the chorus in rapidly grabbed robes they snatch scores of hallelujahs complicit with television cameras they bend down their eyes. However they sing their voices ...
( Category: LGBT February 24,2017 )
Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Rich

Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts After the text of my letter to Jane Alexander, then chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, had been fragmentarily ...
( Category: Essays February 24,2017 )
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Dostoevsky Fyodor
epub, azw3 | | 2012-07-10 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor

“Why, you—” “What?” “Why, you—you’re speaking as though you were reading from a book,” she said, and something that sounded like irony could suddenly be heard in her voice. I ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub, mobi |eng | 1987-12-31 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

MAKAR DEVUSHKIN September 30 Makar Alekseyevich, my precious friend! It is all done! My lot is cast; I have no knowledge of what it is to be, but I am ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

CHAPTER SIX My new life was as serene and peaceful as if I had settled among hermits… I lived for more than eight years with my new guardians, and in ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 24,2017 )
The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER 9 At the top of the steps of the hotel’s wide porch, carried up the stairs in a chair and surrounded by footmen, maidservants and numerous obsequious hotel staff, ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )

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