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The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit by Stratford Caldecott
mobi |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:Stratford Caldecott

Given its centrality in Tolkien’s mythology as the link between the world of today and the Elder Days when the world was flat, between mythical time and historical time, the ...
( Category: British & Irish February 15,2015 )
The Power of the Ring by Stratford Caldecott
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Stratford Caldecott

Given its centrality in Tolkien’s mythology as the link between the world of today and the Elder Days when the world was flat, between mythical time and historical time, the ...
( Category: European February 15,2015 )
On Judaism by Martin Buber
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Martin Buber [Buber, Martin]

I repeat: not truth as idea nor truth as shape or form but truth as deed is Judaism’s task; its goal is not the creation of a philosophical theorem or ...
( Category: Torah February 14,2015 )
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Dante Alighieri

[395] Duke of Athens: Theseus, instructed by Ariadne, daughter of Pasiphaë and Minos, how to outwit the Minotaur, entered the labyrinth in the character of a victim, slew the monster, ...
( Category: European February 13,2015 )
Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011 by Jesse Cohn
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Jesse Cohn

The breathless lyricism of this “ideal voyage” could make us miss the poetics of horror that initiate it: diabolical, vertiginous, monstrous, infernal. Why should this Dantesque language be the vehicle ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 13,2015 )
Chaucer's Tale by Paul Strohm
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Paul Strohm

CHAPTER FIVE The Other Chaucer One can immerse oneself in the extensive Life-Records without learning that Chaucer was a writer at all. This does not mean that he wasn’t writing, ...
( Category: Medieval February 13,2015 )
Fortress Besieged by Ch'ien Chung-shu
mobi |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Ch'ien Chung-shu

Chapter15-16 By this time he had completely forgotten the French superstition he had told Mr. Sun on the boat. All he wanted was to win money. At the end of ...
( Category: Asian February 13,2015 )
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Segall Ken
mobi |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Segall, Ken [Segall, Ken]

Simplicity can make itself known in many forms: products, strategies, corporate hierarchies, processes, ads, speeches, and a hundred other places. But nowhere is Simplicity found in such a concentrated form ...
( Category: Marketing February 13,2015 )
The Sorrows of Young Werther
mobi |eng | 2001-01-31 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

OCTOBER 10. Only to gaze upon her dark eyes is to me a source of happiness! And what grieves me, is, that Albert does not seem so happy as he—hoped ...
( Category: German February 13,2015 )
The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett
mobi |eng | 2004-07-02 | Author:Arnold Bennett

Now, if one of us two had understood the elementary principles of human engineering, that one would have said (privately): 'Truth is indestructible. Truth will out. Truth is never in ...
( Category: Contemporary February 13,2015 )
The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
mobi, epub |zh | 2010-11-04 | Author:Virginia Woolf

( Category: British & Irish February 12,2015 )
I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Charlie Brooker

PART SIX In which EastEnders is revealed to be a work of fiction, Nick Clegg worries about human beings with feet, and a teenager incurs the wrath of the internet ...
( Category: European February 11,2015 )
Hannibal Lecter 03 - Hannibal by Thomas Harris
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Thomas Harris

"I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Judy in all this time. Cordell says she's bowlegged. How long have you two been an item, Margot?" "Five years." "Why don't you ...
( Category: Ghosts February 9,2015 )
Waldo by Robert Heinlein
mobi |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein

Waldo tried again through his own agents, received the same answer. The situation was, to him, almost intolerable; it had been years since he had encountered a man whom he ...
( Category: Adventure February 9,2015 )
Gold-The Final Science Fiction Collection by Isaac Asimov
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Isaac Asimov

1. “Robbie:” This is the first robot story I wrote. I turned it out between May 10 and May 22 of 1939, when I was nineteen years old and was ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 9,2015 )

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