History & Criticism
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Rebecca Mead [Mead, Rebecca]

CONSIDERABLE scholarly energy has been expended over the decades upon the question of whether the Rector of Lincoln and his wife inspired the characters of Edward Casaubon and Dorothea Brooke, ...
( Category: European April 13,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Andrei Makine [Unknown]

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE Andrei Makine was born and brought up in Russia, but Music of a Life, like his other novels, was written in French. The book is set in Russia, ...
( Category: Russian April 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

2 THE OLD PEOPLE 1. At first there was nothing. There was the faint, cold, steady rain, the gray and constant light of the late November dawn, with the voices ...
( Category: Short Stories April 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

2 So he should have hated and feared Lion. He was thirteen then. He had killed his buck and Sam Fathers had marked his face with the hot blood, and ...
( Category: Classics April 12,2014 )
epub |eng | 1931-01-01 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

V The Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he ...
( Category: United States April 12,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-08-11 | Author:Dunnett, Dorothy [Dunnett, Dorothy]

Chapter 22 FAR FROM THE RAVAGES he had unwittingly caused, the Charetty lawyer Gregorio saw the time draw near at last when he could find and confront the Scottish lord ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1955-08-15 | Author:Jean Plaidy

A September haze hung in the air. Pinto was in one of the attics looking out over the countryside. How quiet it seemed! Yesterday she had watched the Fair people ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1976-08-16 | Author:Dunnett, Dorothy [Dunnett, Dorothy]

Then the contests began. Seated with the rest round the wide, grassy space beside the half-finished church, Groa said to her husband, ‘The dress Thora is wearing. Isn’t that the ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1971-08-14 | Author:Jean Plaidy

To Philip those were not unhappy days. He felt that his journey had not been in vain. He knew that throughout Spain there would be rejoicing. God and the Emperor ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Plaidy, Jean [Plaidy, Jean]

The tiring day was over. Lucrezia’s women clustered about her to help her undress. They removed the mulberry and gold gown and the jeweled headdress; they combed the long golden ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-22 | Author:Jean Plaidy

After that I suffered such a tragedy that I forgot all my anxieties about everything else. My little Anne fell ill. She had always been the delicate one and had ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:John Sutherland

This splatter for others to clear up is a main reason that Derek Humphry, the guru of ‘assisted death’ (i.e. suicide), urges against this particular ‘solution’. If it is employed ...
( Category: General April 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-08 | 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 April 10,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

( Category: Gothic & Romantic April 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Granger [Granger, John]

Profiteers, Fools, and Blood-Sucking Parasites: Fleet Street in Satirical Story Ms. Rowling’s relationship with the media, by which inclusive term I mean television and print journalists, is a remarkable one. ...
( Category: Pop Culture April 10,2014 )