History & Criticism
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Wolfgang Koeppen [Koeppen, Wolfgang]

He sat at the bottom end of the dining-room table in the hostel for travelling priests, bathed in a dirty brown penumbra, because the window opened on to a small ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 6,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Larry McMurtry

-31- “We’re lucky this town had a good-sized tree,” Doc said. He was speaking about Mobetie, Texas, the town with one tree. He and Wyatt had just been concluding a ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Woolf, Virginia

Lighthouse But the voice had stopped. She looked round. She made herself get up. Augustus Carmichael had risen and, holding his table napkin so that it looked like a long ...
( Category: European June 5,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

And now outside the window, deep on the horizon, a new thing appears, as if we needed a new thing. It is a new land blue beyond islands, hitherto hidden ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-25 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

4. What Is a Novelist? To Understand, We Must Compare WHEN HERMANN BROCH WANTED TO BLOCK out a character, he first seized on the character’s essential position and then progressed ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 5,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

C.S.: By that broad a definition, we could even call The Decameron a novel! All of its stories are connected by the same theme of love and told by the ...
( Category: Fiction June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft [Wollstonecraft, Mary]

SECTION 5.3. Such paternal solicitude pervades Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, that I enter on the task of criticism with affectionate respect; but as this little volume has many ...
( Category: History & Theory June 4,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Berry, Steve [Berry, Steve]

MALONE WAS THE LAST TO HOP FROM THE BOAT ONTO THE CONCRETE quay. They were back downtown, in San Marco, where the famous square ended at the lagoon. Ripples slapped ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling June 4,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Berry, Steve [Berry, Steve]

“Let us say that he’s aroused my curiosity. Are you free tomorrow? The club is gathering for an important session.” “I’m a Jew. Christmas is not a holiday for me.” ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling June 4,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Berry, Steve [Berry, Steve]

DEROQUEFORT HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THE DOOR THAT LED OUT of the archives. He’d descended from the ramparts and knew the woman would want to make a hasty retreat, but her ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers June 4,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-11-27 | Author:Berry, Steve [Berry, Steve]

nobody's the wiser. This is pretty barren territory, less than three people per square mile. It's doubtful we were seen. Like I said before. You always wanted to know what ...
( Category: Kidnapping June 4,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Pablo Hidalgo

AUTHOR · Paul Balsamo PUBLICATION HISTORY · Short story, West End Games · Star Wars Adventure Journal #1, February 1994 TIME LINE PLACEMENT · 4 ABY WORLDS VISITED · Balis-Baurgh ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 1,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Beard

DEATH BY LAUGHTER—AND SOME AGELASTIC TRADITIONS There were even wider—and sometime dangerous—implications in Roman connections between different forms of imitation and laughter. One of these is starkly illustrated in an ...
( Category: Humor June 1,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:James Wood [Wood, James]

80 In fact, the ubiquitous flat character of the English novel, from Mr. Collins to Charles Ryder’s father, tells us something deep about the dialectic of British reticence and sociability, ...
( Category: Fiction June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:John Irving

WHEN I HAPPENED UPON Aunt Muriel, she greeted me in her usual insincere fashion: “Oh, hi, Billy—how’s everything? I hope all the normal pursuits of a young man your age ...
( Category: Political May 30,2014 )