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Gay Before God: An Awakening Love Forbidden by the Church
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Bruce, William [Bruce, William]

Chapter 9 “Hello, Rachel, my dear,” spoke the bishop as he reached forward to kiss her on the cheek. “How are you?” His concern seemed genuine enough. The bishop’s wife ...
( Category: Gender & Sexuality November 12,2015 )
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
epub |eng | 1980-08-28 | Author:Wolfram von Eschenbach [Eschenbach, Wolfram von]

Chapter 10 WE are approaching strange tales such as can empty us of joy and bring high spirits: they have to do with both. The term of one year was ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 12,2015 )
A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Harkup

Three Act Tragedy Mr Babbington was peering across the room with amiable short-sighted eyes. He took a sip of his cocktail and choked a little. He was unused to cocktails, ...
( Category: European November 12,2015 )
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Viviane Forrester
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Viviane Forrester [Forrester, Viviane]

A final note: shortly after Adrian’s death, Karin committed suicide. Virginia moved to Fitzroy Square, still in Bloomsbury, with her younger brother; Adrian would escort her to dances, concerts, costume ...
( Category: Women Authors November 12,2015 )
The Stephen King Companion by George Beahm
epub |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:George Beahm

63 MICHAEL COLLINGS ON FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT 1990 As with Different Seasons, which shares the overriding time metaphor both in its title and in the arrangement of its stories, each ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 12,2015 )
Biggins by Christopher Biggins
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Christopher Biggins [Christopher Biggins]

I was playing Babes in the Wood in Birmingham when Alan Boyd came to see me. He was a big-league London Weekend Television producer and I admit I was flattered ...
( Category: United States November 12,2015 )
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion by Lee Gutkind
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Lee Gutkind [Gutkind, Lee]

The small Connecticut town my twin and I grew up in was called Bethel. Think of Mayberry, RFD, television’s version of Anytown, U.S.A. There was a brick town hall with ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 12,2015 )
Basil Street Blues by Michael Holroyd
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Holroyd [Holroyd, Michael]

15 Legal and Military My first half-dozen years after leaving Eton were strikingly indecisive. They began with two minor operations. The first – to correct some complications in my right ...
( Category: Great Britain November 12,2015 )
Ted Hughes by Jonathan Bate
epub |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:Jonathan Bate

In the summer of 1978, a year after the appearance of Gaudete, a black-bound volume of poems called Orts was published by Olwyn’s Rainbow Press, in an edition of 200 ...
( Category: Poetry November 12,2015 )
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life by Ann Beattie
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Ann Beattie [Beattie, Ann]

Prophetic Moments Princess Diana’s sisters, upon learning of her reservations about marrying Prince Charles: “Too late, Duch, your face is on the tea towels.” Mrs. Nixon’s best friend, Helene Drown, ...
( Category: Women November 12,2015 )
Thurber: Writings & Drawings by James Thurber
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:James Thurber [Thurber, James]

Here Lies Miss Groby MISS GROBY taught me English composition thirty years ago. It wasn’t what prose said that interested Miss Groby; it was the way prose said it. The ...
( Category: United States November 12,2015 )
Contested Will by James Shapiro
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:James Shapiro [James Shapiro]

O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from ...
( Category: Shakespeare November 12,2015 )
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:Marina Warner [Warner, Marina]

This enchanted fortress conceals a torture chamber. The bride is initiated into erotic pleasure by this Bluebeard, but rescued, in a rightly celebrated, exuberant twist at the end of the ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 12,2015 )
Vintage Reading by Robert Kanigel
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Kanigel [Kanigel, Robert]

The Greek Way to Western Civilization ____________ By Edith Hamilton. First published in 1930 Ever get your Thucydides mixed up with your Pericles? Do Aeschylus and Agathon and Aristophanes run ...
( Category: Reference November 12,2015 )
Sunlight On The Lawn by Beverley Nichols
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Beverley Nichols

Then the miracle happened. From the other side of the door there had come a tiny mew. I could not believe it. But there it was again, faint but unmistakable, ...
( Category: By Region November 10,2015 )

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