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King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
epub |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare

1 MURDERER. 'T is, my good lord. SUFFOLK. Away! be gone. [Exeunt Murderers.] [Sound trumpets. Enter the KING, the QUEEN, CARDINAL BEAUFORT, SOMERSET, with attendants.] KING. Go, call our uncle ...
( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
Hoe God Verdween Uit Jorwerd by Geert Mak/Hoe God Verdween Uit Jorwerd
mobi |nld | 1998-01-01 | Author:Geert Mak/Hoe God Verdween Uit Jorwerd [Mak, Geert]

viii intermezzo: de toren en de houten gezichten Op zaterdagochtend 25 augustus 1951, om zeven minuten over vijf, stortte de toren van Jorwerd met donderend geraas ineen. Zomaar, uit zichzelf, ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
epub |eng | 2008-06-12 | Author:James Joyce [Joyce, James]

The transept of the Jesuit Church in Gardiner Street was almost full; and still at every moment gentlemen entered from the side-door and, directed by the lay-brother, walked on tiptoe ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov
epub |eng | 1992-11-26 | Author:Omer Bartov [Bartov, Omer]

( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal
epub |eng | 2012-06-02 | Author:Ben Crystal [Crystal, Ben]

* * * Verse or prose? Carrying on the idea that Shakespeare used verse to make his kings sound kingly, it’s not surprising that the only plays he wrote entirely ...
( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
epub, azw3 |eng | 1937-03-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

PART TWO 8 The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it are not immediately clear. In the earlier chapters of this book ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
Nets of awareness Urdu poetry and its critics by Frances W. Pritchett
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-05-08 | Author:Frances W. Pritchett [Pritchett, Frances W.]

But it is by no means the only effective strategy, for implication (kinayah) is also a basic technique. Hall asserts that "implication is always more eloquent than straightforwardness." 17 Here ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
The Opium War by Julia Lovell
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Julia Lovell

Chapter Fourteen THE TREATY OF NANJING In April 1842, a seventy-one-year-old Manchu called Yilibu received some terrible news. His distant relative, the emperor, had revoked his sentence of banishment to ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
Encounters With Chinese Writers by Annie Dillard
epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]

Softly, very softly, we turned to Tiziano and asked, "If you were in India, what would you be saying?" And softly, very softly, Tiziano Terzani, stirring sugar into his coffee ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-07-02 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Xueqin, Cao]

Chapter XXX * Pao-ch'ai avails herself of the excuse afforded her by a fan to administer a couple of raps. While Ch'un Ling traces, in a absent frame of mind, ...
( Category: China March 26,2014 )
Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed by William O. Stephens
epub |eng | | Author:William O. Stephens [Stephens, William O.]

THE BEES AND THE HIVE Marcus believes that the source of good and bad for rational and political beings lies in actively doing, not in being acted upon. Goodness and ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
Iliad (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Homer
epub |eng | | Author:Homer

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2014 )
A Cabinet Of Greek Curiosities by J.C. McKeown
epub |eng | | Author:J.C. McKeown [McKeown, J.C.]

The Athenians do not allow the populace as a whole to be the target of criticism in comedy, whereas they encourage attacks on individuals. They are well aware that a ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 26,2014 )
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Gordon S. Wood [Wood, Gordon S.]

When someone as aristocratic as William Byrd could write of the natural equality of all men, even those of different nations and races, and conclude that “the principal difference between ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
Legacy of ashes: the history of the CIA by Tim Weiner
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Tim Weiner [Weiner, Tim]

In retrospect, you see, I really do not believe that an intelligence organization in this government is able to deliver an honest analytical product without facing the risk of political ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )

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