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Those Who Write for Immortality by H. J. Jackson
epub |eng | 2015-11-27 | Author:H. J. Jackson

Barry Cornwall Keats was not the only small, boyish, pugilistic, sensitive young poet whose talent was fostered by Hunt and his circle in the last years of the Regency; who ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2015 )
Wilfred Owen by Stallworthy Jon
epub |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Stallworthy, Jon [Stallworthy, Jon]

and Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, And ...
( Category: European November 27,2015 )
A Game of Thrones 01 - A Game Of Thrones by Martin R.R. George
epub |eng | 2009-05-16 | Author:Martin, R.R. George [Martin, R.R. George]

EDDARD He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood. In the dream his friends rode ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy November 26,2015 )
Belgariad 04 - Castle Of Wizardry by Eddings David
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Eddings, David [Eddings, David]

"It needs fixing, dear," she told him placidly. "There are a hundred people around who could do it for you." "I prefer to do it myself." "Put it down and ...
( Category: Epic November 26,2015 )
The Tale of Genji (unabridged) by Shikibu Murasaki
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Shikibu Murasaki [Murasaki, Shikibu]

1 This character does not appear elsewhere in the work. 2 The space was called the Kaedono. 3 The word for “early spring greens,” wakana, gives this chapter its title. ...
( Category: Japanese November 25,2015 )
The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-02 | Author:James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel [Kelly, James Patrick & Kessel, John]

For what makes SF wonderful and complicated is that mix of speculation and the fabulous: SF is both think-fiction and dream-fiction. For the first 60-odd years of the century American ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy November 24,2015 )
Hammett (CRIME MASTERWORKS) by Joe Gores
epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Joe Gores [Gores, Joe]

20 The three-room cottage was peak-roofed like the main house. Smoke wisped from the stovepipe through one side of the roof. Hammett rapped sharply at the door. ‘Hawkins, Mrs Starr. ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled November 24,2015 )
When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School by Sam Kashner
epub |eng | 2004-02-22 | Author:Sam Kashner [Kashner, Sam]

28. Saint Petersburg One morning in the middle of the fall semester, Peter came over early to wash my face—he said I didn’t do it right. He wore a white ...
( Category: West November 20,2015 )
Streetwise by Mohamed Choukri
mobi |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Mohamed Choukri [Choukri, Mohamed]

16 It was a fresh, breezy morning as I left Habiba’s house. I felt as light as a feather, as if I was walking on air. She was still asleep. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 20,2015 )
Selected Cronicas (New Directions Paperbook, 834) by Clarice Lispector
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 1996-11-16 | Author:Clarice Lispector

THE LEARNED MAN He now manages a shoe-shop. Not because he likes the job, but it was all he could find. He was forever asking himself: where did I go ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American November 17,2015 )
Conversations with Kafka by Janouch Gustav
epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Janouch, Gustav

* ‘Jews and Germans have much in common,’ said Kafka, in a conversation about Dr Karel Kramář.54 ‘They are energetic, able, industrious, and thoroughly detested by everyone else. Jews and ...
( Category: German November 16,2015 )
How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book) by Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler

15 Suggestions for Reading Stories, Plays, and Poems The parallel rules for reading imaginative literature that were discussed in the last chapter were general ones, applying across the board to ...
( Category: General November 15,2015 )
0425276562 by Carolyn Hart
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Carolyn Hart [Hart, Carolyn]

Sam Cobb’s office was familiar, a long, wide room with an old brown leather sofa facing the windows. He sat with his back to the sofa at a battered oak ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling November 14,2015 )
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes & Stephanie Benson
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Virginie Despentes & Stephanie Benson [Despentes, Virginie & Benson, Stephanie]

This particular image of the prostitute that we so love to display-stripped of all her rights, deprived of her independence and her capacity to decide-has several functions. Above all, to ...
( Category: Feminist Theory November 13,2015 )
In a Dark Wood by Joseph Luzzi
epub |eng | 2015-04-16 | Author:Joseph Luzzi

CHAPTER 6 Rough Draft Maybe I’ll go to law school.” It was just hours after Katherine’s death on November 29, 2007, and I was standing in Poughkeepsie’s Vassar Brothers Hospital ...
( Category: Medieval November 12,2015 )

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