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The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller by Erica Jong
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Erica Jong [Jong, Erica]

The home in Big Sur came to Henry in an almost magical way. He described the process to Anaïs Nin: I told you I am getting a piece of property—a ...
( Category: Authors August 4,2015 )
Homer the Preclassic by Gregory Nagy
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Gregory Nagy [Nagy, Gregory]

Footnotes [ back ] 1. Shaw 2001 gives a survey. [ back ] 2. Shaw 2001:170. [ back ] 3. Archaeologists have securely identified the site at Cape Burun as ...
( Category: Epic July 31,2015 )
The Best of Robert Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll
epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Robert Green Ingersoll [Ingersoll, Robert Green]

All the prayer in the world cannot take the place of the circulation of the blood. All the prayer in the world is no substitute for digestion. All the prayer ...
( Category: Management & Leadership July 31,2015 )
The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God by John L. Mackie
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:John L. Mackie [Mackie, John L.]

(b) Hume's Dialogues Discussion What are we to say about these five points? I shall postpone the fourth until Chapter 9, where I shall be considering the problem of evil ...
( Category: European July 31,2015 )
Crime And Punishment (Random House) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 1993-05-19 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

Part Four I “CAN THIS BE a continuation of my dream?” came once again to Raskolnikov’s mind. Cautiously and mistrustfully he stared at his unexpected visitor. “Svidrigailov? What nonsense! It ...
( Category: Historical July 31,2015 )
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 1878-12-31 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

“God was watching over me then,” Mitya used to say afterwards: just at that time, the sick Grigory Vasilievich woke up on his bed. Towards evening of that day he ...
( Category: Russian July 31,2015 )
The Brothers Karamazov (Ignat Avsey) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

5 A SUDDEN DECISION FENYA and her grandmother were sitting in the kitchen together, and were about to go to bed. Relying on Nazar Ivanovich, they had not bothered to ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 31,2015 )
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Musil Robert
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Musil, Robert [Musil, Robert]

It’s Lovely Here There are many people who on their vacations are drawn to famous places. They drink beer in their hotel gardens, and if in addition they happen to ...
( Category: European July 28,2015 )
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Samantha Ellis [Ellis, Samantha]

7 LUCY HONEYCHURCH It’s embarrassing to admit how wildly I misread A Room with a View when I was 20. Though I’m beginning to think all readings are provisional, and ...
( Category: Women Authors July 28,2015 )
The Story of Siegfried (Yesterday's Classics) by Baldwin James
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Baldwin, James [Baldwin, James]

CHAPTER XIII The Story of Balder THERE was mirth in King Gunther's dwelling, for the time of the Yule-feast had come. The broad banquet hall was gayly decked with cedar ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory July 26,2015 )
Unstuck in Time by Gregory D. Sumner
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Gregory D. Sumner [Sumner, Gregory D.]

Breakfast of Champions signals Vonnegut’s turn to the aggressively autobiographical approach of his later works, a decision to foreground from now on the contours of his turbulent interior life. “I ...
( Category: United States July 22,2015 )
Midnight's Children (25th Anniversary Edition) by Salman Rushdie
epub |eng | 1981-01-02 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

The Kolynos Kid FROM AYAH TO WIDOW, I’ve been the sort of person to whom things have been done; but Saleem Sinai, perennial victim, persists in seeing himself as protagonist. ...
( Category: Family Saga July 22,2015 )
Braided Lives by Marge Piercy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-20 | Author:Marge Piercy

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR LE DÉJEUNER SUR L’HERBE AT FIRST DONNA is pleased with her new lover Charlie. He is twenty-four. (“A man ought to be a little older, Stu, because boys ...
( Category: Political July 21,2015 )
Points and Lines (Japan's Mystery Writers) by Seicho Matsumoto
epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Seicho Matsumoto [Matsumoto, Seicho]

9 Landscape with Figures The house stood at the bottom of a slight slope, some distance from the station. Most of the houses in the neighborhood were of wood, the ...
( Category: Asian July 19,2015 )
Living by Fiction
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Dillard, Annie [Dillard, Annie]

The sentences of this prose may be very long, heavily punctuated throughout, and welded together with semicolons. Its lexicon is enormously wide, its spheres of reference global. We think of ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 18,2015 )

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