History & Criticism
epub, mobi |eng, eng | | Author:Gregory,Philippa

Greenwich Palace, London, Christmas 1529 Dressed in her best gown, wrapped in furs, I take Princess Mary by royal barge down the river to Greenwich for Christmas and we go ...
( Category: Renaissance May 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:The Voyage Out [Out, The Voyage]

CHAPTER XV Whether too slight or too vague the ties that bind people casually meeting in a hotel at midnight, they possess one advantage at least over the bonds which ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory May 2,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Virginia Woolf

The employment, which was thus censured, was, as far as one can see, the harmless one of rambling about the fields and dreaming: My hand delights to trace unusual things, ...
( Category: Women Writers May 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-12 | Author:Edward Albee [Albee, Edward]

STEVIE What? Kill you? MARTIN No; learn about it. STEVIE (Big) No! I don’t really want to! (Normal tone again) I want the whole day to rewind—start over. I want ...
( Category: United States May 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

And Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, said: “Why say you: ‘O dead thing’? Have you been thus long in this Garden and know not that there is nothing dead ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious April 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

(5) See Wesley's anthem, Eccles. xliv. 1, "Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." Per. All that you say, Socrates, is most true, but do ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

Footnotes: 1 (return) [ Or, "Socrates' Defence before the Dicasts." For the title of the work see Grote, "H. G." viii. 641; Schneid. ap. L. Dindorf's note {pros tous dikastas}, ...
( Category: Philosophy April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Gabrielle Zevin [Zevin, Gabrielle]

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1865 / Mark Twain Proto-postmodernist story of a habitual gambler and his bested frog. The plot isn’t much, but it’s worth reading because ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Zen in the Art of Writing (pdf) [Writing, Zen in the Art of]

the trees to seed the blood. I was amused and somewhat astonished at a critic a few years back who wrote an article analyzing Dandelion Wine plus the more realistic ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris [Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris]

M * * * MACHPELAH was a double-chambered cave in western Hebron, which Abraham bought for a family burial place. Ragan’s web of war drops “with crimson gore with the ...
( Category: European April 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-03 | Author:Thorne Smith

Chapter 13 Escape Before the sun had set Mr. Topper had left a trail of dust across his native state and carried warfare deep into the heart of Connecticut. Like ...
( Category: Ghosts April 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:David Eddings

Chapter Fourteen It was the first day of spring, and King Belgarion of Riva was terribly nervous. He had watched the approach of Princess Ce’Nedra’s sixteenth birthday with a steadily ...
( Category: Epic April 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-05-01 | Author:May, Rollo [May, Rollo]

The self for him, thus, exists on the archaic, infantile level of selfhood. The world of relationship, the complex, fascinating, difficult, endlessly new, this world is rich in demands but ...
mobi, epub |ru | 2010-01-01 | Author:Brian Joseph Martin

CHAPTER 8 Military Daddies & Veteran Rogues Balzac’s Major Genestas and Colonel Bridau In the lamplight of a country barn, an old veteran listened to his buddy’s tall tales. For ...
( Category: LGBT April 20,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Alberto Moravia

12 THE DAY ARRIVED when we were to leave for Capri. Battista had decided to accompany us to the island, to do us the honors of his house, as he ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 20,2014 )