History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Tom Shippey

No motion has she now, no force, She neither hears nor sees, Roll’d round in earth’s diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees! He should have written ‘stocks’, not ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

my vision fell from me exactly so the instant a new light beat on my face, a light outshining any that men know. I was looking all about, as if ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist

The Beggarwoman of Locarno IN the foothills of the Alps, near Locarno in northern Italy, there used to stand an old castle belonging to an Italian marquis, which can now, ...
( Category: German March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-06-28 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

where, turned towards us, Beatrice stood. ‘Make sure,’ they said, ‘you do not spare your eyes. 115 We’ve placed you here before these emeralds, from which Love aimed his arrows ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Alexandre Dumas

Chapter XXXVIII PYRAMUS AND THISBE Our readers must permit us to conduct them to the enclosure surrounding Monsieur de Villefort’s house, and, behind the gate half hidden by wide-spreading chestnut-trees, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2008-09-17 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

13 Eric and Tom drove off in Eric’s car for the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, which Eric said was less than fifteen minutes away. Peter had departed, promising to come ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-04-15 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

Twenty-four For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

Chapter 13 Tom got a taxi, after several minutes’ effort, and asked the driver please to aim for Covent Garden, and gave Ed’s address. Seven twenty-two by Tom’s watch. His ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

14 It was one of the worst lunches Tom had ever sat through, matching almost the lunch with Heloise and her parents after Heloise had told them they were already ...
( Category: Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Stanislaw Lem

Metafantasia: The Possibilities of Science Fiction Let us demonstrate three possible types of science fiction by way of three fictional examples. Our first example is a work about a system ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1938-03-24 | Author:Lovecraft, Howard Phillips [Lovecraft, Howard Phillips]

Chapter 9 The Weird Tradition in the British Isles Recent British literature, besides including the three or four greatest fantaisistes of the present age, has been gratifyingly fertile in the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-10 | Author:David Baggett; Shawn Klein

There is one last point we must note about Aristotle’s account of the virtues. Aristotle recognized that all of our important choices in life take place in emotional contexts. What ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-09-01 | Author:Thomas Mann

11 Herr Klöterjahn knocked at the door of Herr Spinell’s room; he held a large, neatly written sheet of paper in one hand, and wore the air of a man ...
( Category: German March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Lewis Hyde

I opened the chapter on the increase of gifts with a description of a first-fruits ritual—the salmon bones returned to the sea that the salmon might remain plentiful. In the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )