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A Companion to Ancient Education by Bloomer W. Martin;
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Bloomer, W. Martin;

2. Tullia Because few letters survive from Tullia’s early years, information is sparse. The schooling of a girl was brief, because she could expect to marry soon after puberty, though ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 30,2016 )
The Good Story by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

EIGHT Group experiences: music, football, ecstatic religion. Shared ‘knowledge’ within the group. Theoretical problems about group thought. The individual versus the group: personal experience in South Africa. Nationalism as regressive ...
( Category: General April 30,2016 )
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2 VOLUMES) by S. T. Joshi
epub |eng | 2010-08-20 | Author:S. T. Joshi [Joshi, S. T.]

The rest of the year was spent variously in activity with the Kalems, in receiving out-of-town guests, and in solitary travels of an increasingly wider scope in search of antiquarian ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural April 28,2016 )
The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Viertel

12. Intermission When I was first taken to the theater, in 1955, intermission refreshments were limited to a watery form of orange drink served in a waxed cardboard carton. I ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals April 26,2016 )
The City and the Pillar: A Novel by Gore Vidal
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-12-02 | Author:Gore Vidal [Vidal, Gore]

Jim was soon a friend of the corporal, whose name was Ken Woodrow, from Cleveland, aged twenty-one, in the Army a year and a half. He was a graduate of ...
( Category: Coming of Age April 25,2016 )
A Most Dangerous Book by Christopher B. Krebs
epub |ara, deu, eng, fra, ita | 2011-08-08 | Author:Christopher B. Krebs

8. A Germanic farmer in Justus Möser’s History of Osnabrück. Widener Library, Harvard College Library, 47528.1.10. A woodcut adorns the History of Osnabrück. Traditional and Tacitean, it looks back to ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
The Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Bates

13. Shapeshifters In the real Middle-earth, it was believed that certain people could alter their shape and spirit from human to animal form. So that they appeared, sounded and behaved ...
( Category: European April 25,2016 )
Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics) by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
Aurora Leigh and Other Poems by Elizabeth Browning
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Browning

And dash his brute front unabashed against The steep snow-bosses of the shield of God Who soon shall rise in wrath and shake it clear,) 105 Came hither also,—raking up ...
( Category: Love Poems April 22,2016 )
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
mobi, epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:T. S. Eliot

Polyphiloprogenitive2 The sapient sutlers3 of the Lord Drift across the window-panes. In the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. Superfetation4 of τò eν, 5 And at ...
( Category: Love Poems April 22,2016 )
0393333590 (N) by John Matteson
epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:John Matteson [Matteson, John]

CHAPTER TEN ORCHARD HOUSE “My associations with the place are of the happiest and holiest kind” —A. BRONSON ALCOTT, Journals, April 28, 1880 BRONSON FELT HE HAD A STROKE OF ...
( Category: United States April 21,2016 )
Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Kevin J. Hayes [Hayes, Kevin J.]

Andalusia, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, south elevation, showing hexastyle doric portico. Shortly after returning from Andalusia, Poe was stricken ill and confined to bed for around a month. Consequently, he had ...
( Category: United States April 21,2016 )
Notes towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:T. S. Eliot [Eliot, T. S.]

CHAPTER V A Note on Culture and Politics Politics did not, however, so much engage him as to withhold his thoughts from things of more importance. SAMUEL JOHNSON ON GEORGE ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 21,2016 )
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Shapiro

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. To which Juliet replies: Good pilgrim, ...
( Category: Shakespeare April 20,2016 )
Wallace Stevens among Others by Jarraway David R.;
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Jarraway, David R.;

As a means of teasing out further the implications of Cukor’s both-sides-and-neither approach to filmmaking, and the rather complex treatment of character that its collaborative work entails, I turn now ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction April 20,2016 )

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