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Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:T. S. Eliot

Per me si va nella città dolente; per me si va nell’ eterno dolore; per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la ...
( Category: United States May 25,2015 )
Tumbleweed by Janwillem van de Wetering
mobi |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Janwillem van de Wetering [Wetering, Janwillem van de]

10 THE KLM PLANE BEGAN ITS DESCENT TOWARD PLESMAN Airport, , and the commissaris woke up. His small wizened face looked almost eager and he acknowledged his own excitement with ...
( Category: European May 25,2015 )
The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Seamus Heaney

Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas is by now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. Mention of his name is enough ...
( Category: Poetry May 25,2015 )
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]

Taking our cue from Junger’s observation that the platoon, the group, counts for so much more than the individual, what—leaving aside particular merits or otherwise—do books of this kind reveal ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 25,2015 )
Banker to the Poor by Yunus Muhammad
epub | | 2015-05-21 | Author:Yunus, Muhammad [Yunus, Muhammad]

From the very beginning, Grameen has gone against traditional methods of poverty alleviation by handing out cash without any attempt to first provide skills training. We have received a great ...
( Category: Curricula May 25,2015 )
The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Harold Bloom [Bloom, Harold]

There is power in this pathos, but Priscilla is possessed in a mode that discomforts me; yet that is Hawthorne’s deliberate artistry. Her clinging weakness provokes eros in Hollingsworth and ...
( Category: United States May 25,2015 )
Poetry For Dummies by The Poetry Center & John Timpane
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-06 | Author:The Poetry Center & John Timpane

Published in 1923, this poem had much to say both about the chaotic state of Yeats’s Ireland and about the state of the world. It is a horror movie of ...
( Category: Poetry May 24,2015 )
The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Zachary Leader [Leader, Zachary]

THAT AUGIE IS JEWISH and speaks an English in which Yiddish inflections, constructions, and expressions are heard, is part of what makes him a Columbus. In recounting his adventures, he ...
( Category: United States May 13,2015 )
City Life (9781476737348) by Rybczynski Witold
epub |eng | | Author:Rybczynski, Witold

* * * I. In his 1909 Plan of Chicago, which I will discuss later, Daniel Burnham never uses the term “City Beautiful”; nor did Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets ...
( Category: Architecture May 11,2015 )
City Life by Rybczynski Witold
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rybczynski, Witold [Rybczynski, Witold]

* * * I. In his 1909 Plan of Chicago, which I will discuss later, Daniel Burnham never uses the term “City Beautiful”; nor did Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets ...
( Category: Architecture May 11,2015 )
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Harold Bloom

It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, The dark threw its patches down upon me also, The best I had done seem’d to me blank and suspicious, ...
( Category: United States May 10,2015 )
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays (Collected Works of W. B. Yeats) by William Butler Yeats
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-16 | Author:William Butler Yeats

Chorus: Then raise the scarlet standard high! Within its shade we’ll live or die. Tho’ cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We’ll keep the red flag flying here. Harry Edward Piggott ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 28,2015 )
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV by William Butler Yeats
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:William Butler Yeats

John Shawe-Taylor There is a portrait of John Shawe-Taylor by a celebrated painter in the Dublin Municipal Gallery, but painted in the midst of a movement of the arts that ...
( Category: European April 28,2015 )
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
epub, azw3 |eng | 1983-03-19 | Author:Renata Adler [Adler, Renata]

After dinner, the men and the women separate briefly, to different bedrooms, the men downstairs, the women upstairs, the two places, apparently, where the bathrooms are. It is bitter cold ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 27,2015 )
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Batuman Elif
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Batuman, Elif [Batuman, Elif]

Every day for two hours, after my language class with Muzaffar, I studied “Old Uzbek” literature with Dilorom Salohiy, an assistant professor at Samarkand State University. Dilorom, who held doctoral ...
( Category: Russian April 27,2015 )

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