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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:James Shapiro [Shapiro, James]

11 THE KING’S EVIL The first reports of the assassination of King James reached London as dawn broke on Saturday, March 22. According to the Venetian ambassador, as word spread ...
( Category: European November 1,2015 )
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski [Zaleski, Philip & Zaleski, Carol]

14 LOSS AND GAIN As the war wound down, so did Charles Williams. “I’m even more of a … prophet? priest? something—more of a Voice and less of a man ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy November 1,2015 )
Eternity's Sunrise by Leo Damrosch
epub |eng | 2015-10-30 | Author:Leo Damrosch

Apocalypse In Milton and Jerusalem, the culminating apocalypse—the breakthrough into Eternity when Albion awakens—is only briefly described, but in The Four Zoas it is described at great length. The chronology ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 31,2015 )
Friedrich de La Motte-Fouque by Undine
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Undine

A few footsteps more, and they were upon open ground. The imperial city lay bright before them, and the evening sun, which gilded its towers, kindly dried the garments of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 28,2015 )
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Douglas-Fairhurst Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert [Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert]

Dearest of all the signs that fleet From lips that lovingly repeat Again, again, their message sweet! In the context of the poem, these kisses come from a girl who ...
( Category: European October 28,2015 )
The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:John Dunning

* * * All the next day we were like tourists, walking the streets, talking to people we met, probing the babble of the marketplace not far from our door, ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling October 28,2015 )
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:John Dunning [Dunning, John]

27 * * * I finally reached Leith Kenney at midnight. The conversation was short but potent. “Mr. Kenney?” “Yes.” “I’m calling from Seattle.” I didn’t tell him who I ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling October 28,2015 )
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 by Mark Twain
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

As I have said, I reached Stormfield on the 7th of April. Things were buzzing, so to speak. Ashcroft came up a day or two later. Meantime I had seen ...
( Category: United States October 24,2015 )
We the Living (1936) by Ayn Rand
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

Its glass door was severely, immaculately polished, but the latch on its garden gate was broken. Weeds grew over what had been gravelled walks, and cigarette stubs rocked softly in ...
( Category: United States October 24,2015 )
Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism by Marcus Boon Eric Cazdyn & Timothy Morton & Eric Cazdyn
epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Marcus Boon, Eric Cazdyn & Timothy Morton & Eric Cazdyn [Boon, Marcus]

FREUD, CURE, AND PRAXIS This invocation of the political unconscious takes us to our third territory: to psychoanalytic praxis and the category of cure, as well as the question of ...
( Category: Asian October 21,2015 )
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

“I do not know,” he said aloud. “I never had a bone spur.” As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence, the time in the tavern at ...
( Category: Classics October 20,2015 )
Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

The Steinbecks’ first Los Gatos house, Arroyo del Ajo (Garlic Gulch), where they lived from 1936 through 1938, and where the novelist wrote all of The Grapes of Wrath. [Steinbeck ...
( Category: United States October 19,2015 )
Shelley by Richard Holmes
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Richard Holmes

Of her soft hair, which bent with gathered weight My neck near hers, her dark and deepening eyes, Which, as twin phantoms of one star that lies O’er a dim ...
( Category: Romance October 16,2015 )
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor by Darowski Joseph J.;
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Darowski, Joseph J.; [Darowski, Joseph J.]

Chapter Five Broadening the Mutant Metaphor The Uncanny X-Men #281 (Oct. 1991) to The Uncanny X-Men #393 (June 2001) Creators and General Storyline This period represents a significant change in ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 15,2015 )
Ages of Superman by Darowski Joseph;
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Darowski, Joseph;

The Man of Steel Byrne’s vision of the Superman narrative is fundamentally an immigrant story. The writer/artist stated in a 1988 interview that the Man of Steel is the “ultimate ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 13,2015 )

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