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Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Halldór Laxness

25 Banquet of Dried Halibut Pastor Jón Prímus has a word with the overnight guest that evening as he sits on the edge of his bed, still glancing through his ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
epub |eng | 1967-01-28 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT THREE Opens in pitch darkness. Soft sea sounds. After several seconds of nothing, a voice from the dark . .. GUIL : Arc you there? ROS : Where? GUIL ...
( Category: Drama January 29,2015 )
Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions by Duncan Hal
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Duncan, Hal [Duncan, Hal]

The Model and the Machine Ghosts, golems—these metaphysical quirks of fantasy are incongruous in an exploration of SF surely. Ah, well, let’s just employ the Paradigm Shift Caveat here. Let’s ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy January 29,2015 )
Where Have You Been? by Michael Hofmann
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Hofmann

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Zbigniew Herbert died in 1998. He was a very great and idiosyncratic poet—something in me wants to say a peerless poet—and, it is reported, a perennial Nobel bridesmaid. ...
( Category: German January 29,2015 )
The Best American Poetry 2014 by David Lehman
epub |eng | | Author:David Lehman

from The Literary Review PATRICK ROSAL * * * You Cannot Go to the God You Love with Your Two Legs And because you’re not an antelope or a dog ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
The Science of Shakespeare by Dan Falk
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Falk

WHEN SHALL WE 1,250 MEET AGAIN? The Shakespeare Association of America is to Shakespeare studies what the American Astronomical Society is to astronomy. The SAA* is the world’s largest professional ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick [Ozick, Cynthia]

Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, the day President John Kennedy was assassinated, I wrote the last words of Trust, my first novel. I had ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy by Richard Huijing
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Huijing

No one observes this death. Nobody visits the faun, by the last train and the last bus, by cars standing at night on the verge, on bikes put askew against ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Ivan Turgenev

XXVI TWO days later Marya Dmitrievna, according to her promise, arrived in Vasilyevskoye with all her young people. The little girls at once ran into the garden, while Marya Dmitrievna ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 29,2015 )
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings by Sylvia Plath
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Sylvia Plath

Day of Success Ellen was on her way to the bedroom with an armload of freshly folded nappies when the phone rang, splintering the stillness of the crisp autumn morning. ...
( Category: Poetry January 29,2015 )
Hymn to Old Age by Hermann Hesse
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Hermann Hesse [Hermann Hesse]

THINKING BACK The hills are purple with heathery sheen. The branches of the brown broom sway. But who knows now how rich and green The forest was in May? Who ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
Oscar Wilde by André Gide
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:André Gide

III AS SOON AS HE LEFT PRISON, OSCAR WILDE CAME BACK to France. At Berneval, a quiet little village in the neighborhood of Dieppe, a certain Sebastian Melmoth took up ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
French Lover by Nasrin Taslima
epub |eng | 2002-01-22 | Author:Nasrin, Taslima [Nasrin, Taslima]

Thus We Float Away Danielle went back to Paris, after wilting under the dust, pollution, traffic jams and violent honking, and eating snacks off the roadside and falling ill, chatting ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 29,2015 )
The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton
epub |eng | | Author:May Sarton

Part IV Waging Peace It was spring before Jane’s dream of going to Germany with the Unitarian Service Committee began to seem a real possibility, but by then her sister ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers January 29,2015 )
My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles by Alec Waugh
epub |eng | 1967-01-28 | Author:Alec Waugh

Part Two 13 Arthur Waugh’s Last Years When I was young, we were taught history in terms of battles and betrayals; of treaties and capitulations, of crowns and dynasties. Henry ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )

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