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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas 1998 by Machado de Assis
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Machado de Assis [Assis, Machado de]

( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Walt Whitman
epub |eng | | Author:Walt Whitman

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
The Public World Syntactically Impermanence by Leslie Scalapino
epub |eng | 1999-08-26 | Author:Leslie Scalapino [Scalapino, Leslie]

WEATHERMAN: The black ocean of irises is hanging in a half sky. Not even jetting on the black stream, as that is an image of one (or of oneself)not have ...
( Category: Poetry March 26,2014 )
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America by Thomas C. Foster
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas C. Foster

Chapter Thirteen It Takes a Weary Man to Sing a Weary Song The Weary Blues The point of a literary conversation is that it is a conversation. Back and forth. ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Gottschall

VIRTUE REWARDED The Greek philosopher Plato banished poets and storytellers from his ideal republic for, among other sins, peddling immoral fare. And Plato’s was just the first in a long ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
The Poetry of Thought by George Steiner
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Steiner [Steiner, George]

Whoever is ultramodern and ascetic Will find Husserl most sympathetic. Though there is rumor going through the land He was someone Heidegger could never understand. Austria generates and experiences the ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Nick Hornby

1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and amenable… They do not create scenes over a hammer or a mislaid eraser; they do ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Pierre Bayard [Bayard, Pierre]

[The host] came charging back: he was dying, it was clear, to talk about the novel. Gastinel rebuffed him, then consented, all the same, after emitting a declamatory sigh, to ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

II. WHEN, PUNCTUALLY AT TEN minutes to seven, her husband had emerged from the house, Margaret Ransom remained seated in her bedroom, addressing herself anew to the difficult process of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add, that there is that in us which changes not, and which ranks all sensations and states ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Jane Smiley [Smiley, Jane]

2. Snorri Sturluson Egilssaga TRANS. BERNARD SCUDDER, IN THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS, ED. OBERT KELLOGG (1220-40; REPR., NEW YORK: PENGUIN, 2000), PP. 3-184. Egilssaga, the only saga for which we ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Sven Birkerts
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sven Birkerts [Birkerts, Sven]

I want to stay near this business of voice, the particular spanning of outer and inner that Bellow has fashioned to such a high art. For the voice was a ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn G. Hart
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Carolyn G. Hart [Hart, Carolyn G.]

11 A chalky billow of masonry grit eddied from the doorway to the Crier offices. The door hung crazily from one hinge. “Emily!” Brad Kelly pelted up the central hall ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 26,2014 )
Dead By Midnight by Hart Carolyn
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Hart, Carolyn [Carolyn, Hart,]

Chapter Nine Max used a short stroke and the ball rolled up and over a slight ridge to curl beautifully into the hole of the indoor putting green. “Way to ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 26,2014 )
The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett
epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Charlie Lovett [Lovett, Charlie]

London, 1875 In a sumptuously appointed office above his retail premises just around the corner from St. Paul’s, Benjamin Mayhew sat at a wide desk composing correspondence. He had expected ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 26,2014 )

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