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A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:John Sutherland [Sutherland, John]

The American writer of this period who most perfectly fits Baudelaire's description of the modern poet is Walt Whitman (1819–92). The title of one of his poems, ‘Manhattan Streets I ...
( Category: General April 22,2015 )
After the Tall Timber by Renata Adler
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Renata Adler [Adler, Renata]

ON VIOLENCE FILM ALWAYS ARGUES YES THE MOTION picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people—on acts, and ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction April 17,2015 )
Education for a World Community by Wm. Theodore de Bary
epub | | 2013-06-24 | Author:Wm. Theodore de Bary

What is important here is not Huang’s evident hostility to Buddhism. It is true that his survey is motivated by a desire to uphold the orthodox Confucian tradition, but for ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education April 13,2015 )
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Yasunari Kawabata

2 Fumiko brought in two bowls on a tray. They were cylindrical, a red Raku and a black Raku. She set the black before Kikuji. In it was ordinary coarse ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 12,2015 )
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Yasunari Kawabata [Kawabata, Yasunari]

The Bell in Spring In Kamakura in the season of cherry blossoms, the seven-hundredth anniversary of the Buddhist capital was being celebrated. The temple bell rang all through the day. ...
( Category: Literary April 12,2015 )
How to Read a Book by Doren Charles Van;Mortimer J. Adler
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Doren, Charles Van;Mortimer J. Adler [Doren, Charles Van;Mortimer J. Adler]

15 SUGGESTIONS FOR READING STORIES, PLAYS, AND POEMS The parallel rules for reading imaginative literature that were discussed in the last chapter were general ones, applying across the board to ...
( Category: Study & Teaching April 8,2015 )
There Is Simply Too Much to Think About by Saul Bellow
epub |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Saul Bellow [Bellow, Saul]

An Interview with Myself How do you, a novelist from Chicago, fit yourself into American life? Is there a literary world to which you belong? When I entered the Restaurant ...
( Category: United States April 7,2015 )
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
epub |eng | 2002-04-04 | Author:Will Durant

CHAPTER FIVE The Ten “Peaks” of Human Progress INTHE YEAR 1794 a young French aristocrat by the magnificent name of Marquis Marie Jean de Condorcet was hiding from the guillotine ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
Moo by Jane Smiley
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Jane Smiley

42 Leben und Arbeit EVERY DAY, Dean Jellinek had to dig a little deeper to haul up the remaining glow from his courtship by the Final Four corporations who had ...
( Category: Satire April 5,2015 )
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Gary Paulsen

CHAPTER SEVEN TOWN LIFE They went into camp again and this time they sat for three months. They were there so long they thought of the camp as a town ...
( Category: Military & Wars April 5,2015 )
Disgustingly Dirty Joke Book by Jackie Martling
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-10-07 | Author:Jackie Martling

McCreedy goes up to the drugstore counter and says, “I need some condoms and some pesticide.” The girl says, “Don’t you mean spermicide?” He says, “No, I mean pesticide. My ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )
A Fine Family: A Novel by Gurcharan Das
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-13 | Author:Gurcharan Das

9 In the following weeks, Arjun tried to find out everything he could about Priti and her family. This was not difficult because they were well known. But it was ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 5,2015 )
The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John D. Rateliff

(ii) The Black Arrow The motif of the Black Arrow both harkens back to the alliterative poems of the 1920s and ahead to the Númenórean blades in The Lord of ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy April 5,2015 )
Vita Sexualis by Ogai Mori
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ogai Mori

* * * When I was fifteen . . . After the final exams at the close of the past year there had been such a great weeding out of ...
( Category: Japanese April 5,2015 )
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olivia Laing

6 GOING SOUTH WE CAME IN ABOVE MIAMI at half past ten. First the lights, in their beautiful switchboard patterns, and then things passing in the space beneath the plane: ...
( Category: United States April 5,2015 )

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