History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Scott McCrea

(Hmnlct, I.iii.78-80) Bacon states in another essay that "chiefly, the mold of a mans fortune is in his own hands,"" which is the same idea as Cassius' line in Julius ...
( Category: Shakespeare May 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-18 | Author:Duriez, Colin [Duriez, Colin]

M McCallum, Ronald Buchanan (1898–1973) A member of the Inklings* and a fellow and tutor of history of Pembroke College, Oxford* University, until 1955, when he was elected Master of ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-19 | Author:Matthew Bevis

From the 18th century onwards, comedy increasingly imagines the stock type from within, pondering what it would feel like to be a fool or clown (see Figure 11). 11. Henry ...
( Category: Humor May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

The North, the Wilderness, has traditionally been used in Canadian literature as a symbol for the world of the unexplored, the unconscious, the romantic, the mysterious and the magical. There ...
( Category: United States May 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:David Stuttard

The battle between the Centaurs and Lapiths formed the subject matter for metopes on the south side of the fifth-century BC Parthenon at Athens. The apple bore an inscription: ‘for ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:The Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]

Cu2+(aq) + Zn(s) → Cu(s) + Zn2+(aq) Here are the half-reactions and E0 values. Oxidation: Zn(s) → Zn2+(aq) + 2e−; E0ox = 0.76 V Reduction: Cu2+ (aq) + 2e− → ...
( Category: SAT May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:Roger Ebert [Ebert, Roger]

The Best—Some Introductory Words Movie critics are required by unwritten law to create a list of the ten best films of every year, and although I avoid “best” lists whenever ...
( Category: Guides & Reviews May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-26 | Author:John Worthen

Grasmere was not simply a place which encouraged Wordsworth to write poems and pastorals. It reminded him not only of what others had lost, but of what he too had ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-19 | Author:Gene Andrew Jarrett

Scene 2 [Scene 2 changes, disclosing interior of cavern, damp fire, table, three or four rude stools. Some of fugitives sitting, some stretched before fire.] MAMMY: Wonder whar dat boy ...
( Category: Renaissance May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitaro

Amida’s Original Prayer (or Vow) does not speak of good and evil, does not consider the abundance or lack of good deeds, does not choose between a pure and an ...
( Category: Asian May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Steven Shaviro

FIVE Thinking Like a Killer Michael Swanwick’s short story “Wild Minds” (1998) reads like a riposte to Scott Bakker’s Neuropath – even though it was written a decade earlier. The ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy May 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Anne Perry

“I would be delighted to escape it,” Pitt replied ruefully. “But I don’t see how I can.” “What do you expect from me?” The firelight accentuated the shadows on Narraway’s ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sarah Alexander [Alexander, Sarah]

EDDIE: What did the seaweed say when it got stuck at the bottom of the sea? ELSIE: I don’t know. EDDIE: Kelp! Kelp! ELSIE: That’s funny, Eddie. Your best one. ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Brent Frankenhoff [Frankenhoff, Brent]

LEEJA CLAINE # 56 Magnus, Robot Fighter may have had steel-hard hands to destroy the renegade robots of North Am, but his buxom girlfriend knew how to appeal to his ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Hard, Robin; Hard, Robin;

Theseus is acknowledged as heir to the Athenian throne, and sets off for Crete with the tribute Theseus was faced with perils of a more insidious nature on his arrival, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 30,2016 )