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Christopher and His Kind: A Biography by Christopher Isherwood
mobi |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Christopher Isherwood

TEN On March 26, 1934, Christopher left London to rejoin Heinz in Amsterdam. Thus he symbolically rejected Kathleen’s England. But this short journey was to be only the first phase ...
( Category: Literary Criticism August 23,2014 )
The Best of Edward Abbey by Edward Abbey
epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Edward Abbey [Abbey, Edward]

A day later we’re riding the ferrocarril, the iron road from Creel to the west coast of Mexico. But we stop for two days at a point on the rim ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 23,2014 )
The Jane Austen Anthology by Jane Austen
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jane Austen

CHAPTER 10 The Allens, Thorpes, and Morlands all met in the evening at the theatre; and, as Catherine and Isabella sat together, there was then an opportunity for the latter ...
( Category: Anthologies August 22,2014 )
What We See When We Read (9780804171649) by Mendelsund Peter
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Mendelsund, Peter [Mendelsund, Peter]

*** We colonize books with our familiars; and we exile, repatriate the characters to lands we are more acquainted with. We transpose works of nonfiction to similar effect. When I ...
( Category: General August 22,2014 )
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:John Gardner

or In the so-called periodic sentence, highly recommended by high-school English teachers, the most interesting or important thing in the sentence is pushed into the final slot, as in "Down ...
( Category: Fiction August 21,2014 )
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Gutting Gary
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-23 | Author:Gutting, Gary [Gutting, Gary]

to be modern is not to accept oneself as one is in the flux of the passing moments; it is to take oneself as object of a complex and difficult ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 21,2014 )
Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Fulcher James
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-12 | Author:Fulcher, James [Fulcher, James]

America was the home of the ‘managerial revolution’ theory, discussed briefly in Chapter 3. Although this underestimated the continued power of owners, it has been argued convincingly by Alfred Chandler ...
( Category: Arms Control August 21,2014 )
Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Melanie Rehak

The two sisters now running the Stratemeyer Syndicate, Mrs. Russell V. Adams of 48 North Terrace, Maplewood, and Mrs. C. Wesley Squier of Summit, have a full working day, watching ...
( Category: Children's Literature August 21,2014 )
Poet in New York by Frederico Garcia Lorca
epub |eng | 1986-08-19 | Author:Frederico Garcia Lorca

DAWN Dawn in New York has four columns of filth and a hurricane of black doves splashing in putrid waters. Dawn in New York whimpers down the huge stairs seeking ...
( Category: European August 20,2014 )
High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier by Borland Hal
mobi |eng | 2011-11-28 | Author:Borland, Hal [Borland, Hal]

10 AT FIRST I COULDN’T quite realize that Father was gone. Every time I turned around I expected to find him there. I would get up early, the way I ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 20,2014 )
This Generation by Han Han
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Han Han

What is it you’re so afraid of? April 17, 2010 Today, through some chat rooms, I heard about the three people who have been sentenced to jail terms in Mawei, ...
( Category: Music August 20,2014 )
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Shlomo Sand

REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING THE “PEOPLE OF THE LAND” “He shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant” (Dan. 11: 30)—the consoling prophecy of the prophet ...
( Category: Jewish August 19,2014 )
Development as Freedom by Sen Amartya
epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Sen, Amartya [Sen, Amartya]

CHAPTER 8 WOMEN’S AGENCY AND SOCIAL CHANGE Mary Wollstonecraft’s classic book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792, had various distinct claims within the general program of ...
( Category: Social Policy August 19,2014 )
The Big Sleep / Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
epub |eng | 1939-01-01 | Author:Raymond Chandler [Chandler, Raymond]

( Category: Private Investigators August 14,2014 )
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Beth Macy

By the time Shirley retired, things in the American furniture industry were dire. By 2001, no production incentive could compete with dressers as cheap as the ones from Dalian. The ...
( Category: Industrial Relations August 1,2014 )

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