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Odd Type Writers: From Joyce and Dickens to Wharton and Welty, the Obsessive Habits and Quirky Techniques of Great Authors by Johnson Celia Blue
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Johnson, Celia Blue [Johnson, Celia Blue]

In the Shadow of Masters Many great writers developed their voices, in part, by tracing the words of their favorite predecessors. While Jack London handwrote Rudyard Kipling’s stories, Ray Bradbury ...
( Category: Authorship July 31,2014 )
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems by Alice Walker
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

Thousands of Feet Below You Thousands of feet Below you There is a small Boy Running from Your bombs. If he were To show up At your mother’s House On ...
( Category: Love Poems July 31,2014 )
Revolutionary Petunias (Harvest Book) by Alice Walker
epub |eng | 1973-03-21 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

The Old Warrior Terror Did you hear? After everything the Old Warrior Terror died a natural death at home, in bed. Just reward for having proclaimed abroad that True Believers ...
( Category: United States July 31,2014 )
Living by the Word: Essays
epub |eng | 1989-10-23 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

JOURNEY TO NINE MILES By five o’clock we were awake, listening to the soothing slapping of the surf, and watching the sky redden over the ocean. By six we were ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory July 31,2014 )
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories by Haruki Murakami
epub |inh | 2006-10-14 | Author:Haruki Murakami [Murakami, Haruki]

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. Now I regret, a little, that I didn’t tell the girl anything. Perhaps I should ...
( Category: Surrealism July 31,2014 )
Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Rapp Anthony
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Rapp, Anthony [Rapp, Anthony]

Falling and Spinning The next time I saw Mom was two months later, on July 1st. I only had one day off a week, but now that I could afford ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers July 28,2014 )
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Bertolt Brecht [Brecht, Bertolt]

SERGEANT. There’s a man here we don’t know the name of, but he has to be registered to keep the records straight. He bought a meal from you. Look at ...
( Category: German July 25,2014 )
Anthology of Japanese Literature by Donald Keene
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Keene

Footnotes 1 The Todaiji is a temple completed in 752 in Nara, and is known for the colossal statue of the Buddha Vairocana which is its principal object of worship. ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory July 24,2014 )
Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life by Blanton Ward
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Blanton, Ward

VICISSITUDES OF BEATIFICATION To articulate the full irony of this situation, it is worth reflecting for a moment on the carefully organized and ploddingly elaborated Christian historiographical conservatism of Theodore ...
( Category: New Testament July 23,2014 )
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke & L. G. Mitchell
azw3, epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Edmund Burke & L. G. Mitchell

These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men are the pretexts. The pretexts are always found in some specious appearance of ...
( Category: European July 23,2014 )
George Steiner at The New Yorker (New Directions Paperbook) by Steiner George
epub |eng | 2009-01-30 | Author:Steiner, George [Steiner, George]

My feet tread the shadows of the lances that spar for the kill. The taunts of my death, the horses, the horsemen, the horses’ manes, tighten the ring around me. ...
( Category: Essays July 23,2014 )
On Difficulty by George Steiner
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Steiner

6 Whorf, Chomsky, and the Student of Literature 1974 The two positions we are considering can be termed ‘monadist’ or ‘relativist’, and ‘universalist’. The monadist case holds that differences between ...
( Category: General July 23,2014 )
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation by Steiner George
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Steiner, George [Steiner, George]

2 In the history and dieory of literature translation has not been a subject of the first importance. It has figured marginally, if at all. The exception is the study ...
( Category: Linguistics July 23,2014 )
The Death of Tragedy (Faber Library) by Steiner George
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Steiner, George [Steiner, George]

THE MASKED MAN: It is I! RUY BLAS: Great God!—Flee, madam! DON SALLUSTE [now unmasked]: It is too late for that. Madame de Neubourg is no longer queen of Spain. ...
( Category: Cultural July 23,2014 )
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
mobi, epub, azw3 | | | Author:Terry Pratchett

HERE’S a werewolf with Pre-Lunar Tension in Ankfe-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude and a golem who’s begun to think for itself. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City ...
( Category: Humorous July 22,2014 )

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