History & Criticism
epub | | 2010-12-31 | Author:James Knowlson

Eileen O’Casey Eileen O’Casey née Carey (1900-95), singer, dancer and actress who married Sean O’Casey in 1927. Mother of Niall, Shivaun and Breon. She wrote a biography of her husband, ...
( Category: General May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel Beckett

Enough All that goes before forget. Too much at a time is too much. That gives the pen time to note. I don't see it but I hear it there ...
( Category: Short Stories May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-09 | Author:Margery Fish [Fish, Margery]

13. Some Failures As a gardener I was a great trial to my husband and I marvel now that he was so patient with me. He wanted me to concentrate ...
( Category: Essays May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Sylvia Plath]

Little Fugue The yew’s black fingers wag; Cold clouds go over. So the deaf and dumb Signal the blind, and are ignored. I like black statements. The featurelessness of that ...
( Category: Poetry May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Jamaica Kincaid

Notes and Comment A letter from a young woman we know: When I decided that the place I was living in was too small for me, I told everyone that ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Household [Household, Geoffrey]

Chapter Three Again I must write an exact account of my operations while memory is fresh, in case I am ever compelled to justify them. I feel that I am ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Huang, Yunte [Huang, Yunte]

IN JUNE 2008, during a research trip to Honolulu, I went to visit Apana’s house at 3737 Waialae Avenue. As soon as the sun rose from behind craggy Diamond Head ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective May 27,2015 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Matthew Parker [Parker, Matthew]

Messing about in the water with Blanche Blackwell. In 1945, Chris had been taken to England and put into a Catholic school, where he spent most of his time in ...
( Category: Authors May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Hamilton, Edith [Hamilton, Edith]

A king sat on the rocky brow That looks on sea-born Salamis, And ships by thousands lay below, And men by nations—all were his. He counted them at break of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Lawrence Watt-Evans

35 The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002) (with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen) ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE A DISCWORLD STORY about Rincewind interfering with the evolution of Roundworld, ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-26 | Author:Harold Pinter [Harold Pinter]

DUFF Do you like me to talk to you? Pause Do you like me to tell you about all the things I’ve been doing? Pause About all the things I’ve ...
( Category: Drama May 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-26 | Author:Harold Pinter [Harold Pinter]

THE HOTHOUSE Author’s Note I wrote The Hothouse in the winter of 1958. I put it aside for further deliberation and made no attempt to have it produced at the ...
( Category: Drama May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:David Gessner [Gessner, David]

DURING MY MAY trip to study the Abbey papers at the library in Tucson, I’d driven up to the Glen Canyon Dam and taken a raft trip that started at ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Winston Graham [Graham, Winston]

A reluctance, therefore, to change from this method of narrative in Angell, Pearl and Little God is understandable, and it was only after an agony of indecision that I eventually ...
( Category: European May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:E. B. White

In Florida at this time of year, the sun does not take command of the day until a couple of hours after it has appeared in the east. It seems ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )