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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

THE MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves And repeats words without ...
( Category: United States June 24,2014 )
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Ivan Turgenev

TATYANA BORISOVNA AND HER NEPHEW GIVE me your hand, dear reader, and come on an outing. The weather is beautiful. The May sky glows a gentle blue. The smooth young ...
( Category: Ancient June 24,2014 )
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Mendlesohn Farah
epub |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:Mendlesohn, Farah

So what conclusions can we draw? More than any other form described here, the intrusion fantasy holds true to the unreasoning delights of fancy eschewing the rules and rigors of ...
( Category: Classics June 24,2014 )
Les écureuils De Central Park Sont Tristes Le Lundi by Pancol Katherine
epub |eng | 2011-06-26 | Author:Pancol, Katherine [Pancol, Katherine]

Marcel en était là de ses sombres pensées quand Junior frappa à la porte. — Hum ! Hum ! Je peux entrer ou je dérange ? May I come in ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 23,2014 )
The Novel by Michael Schmidt
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Michael Schmidt [Schmidt, Michael]

Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have ...
( Category: General June 23,2014 )
The Riddles of The Hobbit by Adam Roberts
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Adam Roberts [Roberts, Adam]

The story of The Lord of the Rings is that even ‘the little people’ (which is to say: people like you and me) have their part to play in the ...
( Category: Modern June 23,2014 )
Lesbian Pulp Fiction by Katherine V. Forrest
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Katherine V. Forrest

From eleven to five they shopped. Ellen chose only the best stores where everything was good so that they didn’t have to waste too much time in selection. They went ...
( Category: Pop Culture June 23,2014 )
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
epub |eng | 1999-06-22 | Author:Robert L. Heilbroner

We need not spell out the whole emotionally charged argument; the crux of it lies in this passage. Henry George is outraged at the spectacle of men whose incomes—sometimes fabulous ...
( Category: Theory June 23,2014 )
The White Goddess by Robert Graves
epub |eng | 1997-02-02 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

We can go further: with the help of the names given to the tribes by their mothers in Genesis XXIX and XXX, and of the prophetic blessings or curses bestowed ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 23,2014 )
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Ryan Holiday [Holiday, Ryan]

WHAT’S RIGHT IS WHAT WORKS The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That’s all you need to know. —MARCUS AURELIUS ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement June 21,2014 )
Last Tales by Isak Dinesen
epub, mobi |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

New Winter’s Tales COUNTRY TALE There was a wood path running along the stone fence at the western edge of a wood. Outside the fence the open landscape lay calm ...
( Category: Anthologies June 20,2014 )
Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Anita Shreve [Shreve, Anita]

24 Lana held her drink up to the two men. “Death is in my sight today.” Q. shifted nervously on the silk toile of the doctor’s couch. The huntress was ...
( Category: Family Life June 20,2014 )
A Severe Mercy by Vanauken Sheldon
epub |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Vanauken, Sheldon [Vanauken, Sheldon]

But if the agony and death go on, Our Lady’s tears, Our Lord’s most mortal cry, So, too, the timeless lovely birth again— And the forsaken tomb. Today: the dawn ...
( Category: Religious June 6,2014 )
#Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Sophia Amoruso [Amoruso, Sophia]

Treat Your Thoughts Like Your Dollar Bills: Don’t Waste ’Em Though I believe in magic, I’m not hippy-dippy and I generally abhor people who are. I remember I had a ...
( Category: Business June 6,2014 )
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

THE LIBRARY AS MIND … to give visible form to the psychic presence and to the movements of the soul. Aby Warburg, Ausgewählte Schriften Like Machiavelli, I often sit among ...
( Category: General June 6,2014 )

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