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The Ages of the X-Men by Joseph J. Darowski
epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Joseph J. Darowski

Can’t Go Around Him In many ways, Wolverine was the idealized male. He overcame any weakness he experienced as a child, either in character or in physicality. He experienced personal ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 13,2015 )
The Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon
epub |eng | 2001-12-06 | Author:Frantz Fanon

On National Culture It is not enough to write a revolutionary hymn to be a part of the African revolution, one has to join with the people to make this ...
( Category: History & Theory October 13,2015 )
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-01 | Author:Jonathan Bate [Bate, Jonathan]

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 October 13,2015 )
Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
epub |eng | 2005-01-08 | Author:Miguel de Unamuno [Unamuno, Miguel de]

I must advert here once again to my view of the opposition that exists between individuality and personality, notwithstanding the fact that the one demands the other. Individuality is, if ...
( Category: European October 12,2015 )
Tentacles Longer Than Night by Eugene Thacker
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Eugene Thacker [Thacker, Eugene]

What I find most evocative about hair’s almost mythical status is its ambivalent relation to death. Horror films excel at highlighting this ambivalence. For instance, take Antonio Margheriti’s 1964 film ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 12,2015 )
Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Eugene Thacker [Thacker, Eugene]

4 Prayers for Negation What Should Not Be. In the depths of labyrinthine caves, embedded in gigantic rocks, buried in the hottest geothermal vents, and in the cold stellar dust ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 12,2015 )
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Rachel Cusk

Extra Fox There are books about motherhood, as there are about most things. To reach them you must pass nearly everything, the civilised world of fiction and poetry, the suburbs ...
( Category: Motherhood October 11,2015 )
1985 by Anthony Burgess
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-10 | Author:Anthony Burgess

3 You was on the telly Like good Muslims, the British millers who produced what Britain called flour – a fine white dust with carcinogens but little nutritive content – ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory October 11,2015 )
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
epub |eng | 1740-01-02 | Author:Samuel Richardson [Richardson, Samuel]

Three o’clock He continues exceedingly wroth. He has ordered his travelling chariot to be got ready with all speed. What is to come next, I wonder! Sure I did not ...
( Category: European October 11,2015 )
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism by Updike John
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...
( Category: General October 11,2015 )
Poetry Notebook by Clive James
epub |eng | | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

Threatening always to give birth to Edith Sitwell like Venus in a seashell, even in its heyday such billowing foam-froth counted as high spirits at best, and in the long ...
( Category: Poetry October 11,2015 )
Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil by Jean-Claude Izzo
epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Jean-Claude Izzo

GARLIC The first girl I ever kissed smelled of garlic. It was in a hut in Les Goudes, at that hour on a summer’s day when adults take an afternoon ...
( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Walmsley

12 CHRISTMAS IN PRISON CHRISTMAS IN PRISON was like a poorly attended Visitors Day in a seniors’ home. Many men at Collins Bay remained unvisited and lonely. And those who ...
( Category: Memoirs October 11,2015 )
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Valerie Fitzgerald

CHAPTER 11 We descended another staircase, traversed several cavernous corridors and at last Mr Khan opened a door and ushered us into our apartment, a suite of three lofty rooms, ...
( Category: Family Saga October 11,2015 )
To the Islands by Randolph Stow
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Randolph Stow [Stow, Randolph]

6 Heriot woke to the harsh outcry of crows, it was a crow his eyes saw first as they opened unwillingly on the light of day. A shining bird, it ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 11,2015 )

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