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Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen, Henrik]

( Category: Drama February 2,2015 )
Blood Lyrics by Katie Ford
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Katie Ford

Before the war the soul spoke so clearly we took it for an imbecile. But now the war can’t know what it wants: we make meals, pay a tax, and ...
( Category: Poetry January 29,2015 )
Skylight by José Saramago
epub |eng | | Author:José Saramago

22 With the natural vitality of a six-year-old, Henrique made a rapid recovery. And yet, despite the relatively benign nature of the illness, his character seemed to have undergone a ...
( Category: Surrealism January 29,2015 )
South of Haunted Dreams by Eddy L. Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Eddy L. Harris

XI Do not wish to be anything but what you are—but be that perfectly. —Francis de Sales I settled into the saddle of my bike and rode, taking my time, ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
Tristana (NYRB Classics) by Galdos Benito Perez
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Galdos, Benito Perez [Galdos, Benito Perez]

*“Discovery reveals that only nothingness grows”: from Leopardi’s poem “Ad Angelo Mai.” †A reference to Francesca di Rimini in Dante’s Inferno, who was damned for her illicit affair with the ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese January 29,2015 )
The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Eric Rasmussen

(The Drayton mentioned here was Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare’s; John Ward, an early vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, is the source for the anecdotal story of Shakespeare’s death: “Shakespear, Drayton ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
Hawthorne's Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

THE CELESTIAL RAILROAD NOT a great while ago, passing through the gate of dreams, I visited that region of the earth in which lies the famous City of Destruction. It ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Michel de Montaigne

And when we others do foolishly fear a kind of death, when as we have already passed and daily pass so many others. For not only (as Heraclitus said) the ...
( Category: Renaissance January 29,2015 )
The Book of Books
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
The World of Raymond Chandler by Raymond Chandler
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Raymond Chandler [Chandler, Raymond]

I don’t think any of the changes made were in conflict with your basic conception. In fact, you would have had to make them yourself. I do not doubt that ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective January 29,2015 )
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Jack Kerouac

23 BUT IN THE MORNING (and I’m no Milarepa who could also sit naked in the snow and was seen flying on one occasion) here comes Ron Blake back with ...
( Category: Beat Generation January 29,2015 )
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Edmund White [White, Edmund]

That summer, Maria flew home to Iowa and my mother went to Europe for two months. She left me twenty-five dollars a week to live on and the key to ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 29,2015 )
The Queen's Cipher by David Taylor
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:David Taylor [Taylor, David]

ALL SOULS DAY To greet All Souls Day a dry, bitingly cold wind had come in from the east. Slumped in the corner of his coach with watering eyes and ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
Dickens' Women by Miriam Margolyes
epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Miriam Margolyes [Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser]

I love doing that – sexual greed and economic greed in the same scene. Dickens’ most successful females always teetered on the edge of monstrosity. It’s with his grotesques, with ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

19 The fog lifted enough to reveal the wet tops of the reeds. Here and there the fog turned to dew that dampened the road and the weeds by the ...
( Category: War January 29,2015 )

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