History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Brian Morton

54 Florence was planning to go to a meeting at NYU, not far from the library. She asked Emily to find her there that day and give her the next ...
( Category: Family Life December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Derek Walcott

III At the Queen’s Park Hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms, I reenter my first local mirror. A skidding roach in the porcelain basin slides from its path to Parnassus. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:May Sarton [Sarton, May]

15 It is time for a lull and I am happy to have the afternoon ahead of me here at the store, for once hoping that not too many people ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

The View from Castle Rock THE FIRST TIME Andrew was ever in Edinburgh he was ten years old. With his father and some other men he climbed a slippery black ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

We believe him because what he writes “rings true,” but also because, like Cephalus in Plato’s Republic, he is now nearly free of the world and its ambitions, of the ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

TO: Maxwell Perkins TLS, 3 pp. Princeton University 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15, 1935. Dear Max: You don’t say anything about “Taps” so I gather it hasn’t caught ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-12 | Author:Anton Chekhov

V ‘I haven’t died,’ Olga thought when she became aware of her surroundings again and the pains had gone. A bright summer’s day looked in through the two wide-open bedroom ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Luo Guanzhong

Lu Su hastened back to Zhou Yu to tell him that all was going as he desired and Liu Bei would come out to welcome the army. Zhou Yu laughed ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Roy, David Tod

Ch’un-mei Manages Coquettishly to Resist Hsi-men Ch’ing Laid by every man in the street, and Fucked by every guy in the alley, why should I deserve to be so reviled ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Sakutaro Hagiwara

Surveying the Offing On this beach here not even grasses grow what a lonely beach as I quietly watch the waves like this upon waves waves pile and a white ...
( Category: Surrealism December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Nicholas Basbanes [Basbanes, Nicholas]

The decision to dispose of his modern first editions came after Holtzman made his first trip to Israel in 1973, when he decided to pursue a “new direction” that could ...
( Category: History of Books December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Luo Guanzhong

On hearing of the approach of Cao Cao and his army, Zhang Xiu wrote to Liu Biao for help. Then he led his men out of the city under the ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Leopardi, Giacomo [Leopardi, Giacomo]

This consequence derives from the principle assumed. But since the principle is false, so too the consequence is not true, and this proposition if considered again just by itself, will ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Lurie, Alison [Lurie, Alison]

Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. Turning aside (in the light of the current political situation, an excellent choice), he continues “down long wiggled roads” toward what Seuss ...
( Category: Children's Literature December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Asne Seierstad

The three boys have been driving for a couple of hours when they catch up with the backlog of pilgrims. The queue is immovable. It has started to snow. Fog ...
( Category: Operation Desert Storm December 27,2014 )