History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-02-15 | Author:Calvino, Italo [Calvino, Italo]

* * * never tired of believing (though he was also able to discern less obvious things in Italians: their lack of confidence, their anxiety, their caution). Whatever the original ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

14 Unflinching Reality Within weeks of meeting Melville in August 1850, Hawthorne had procured copies of the young novelist’s two latest books, Redburn and White-Jacket. Both were based on Melville’s ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1999-01-15 | Author:Henry Petroski

In the 1777 edition of Comenius’s book the illustration of the bookseller’s shop was updated to show that the shelves were stocked with bound books with their spines facing out. ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Shaunda Kennedy Wenger; Janet Jensen

2 cups fresh green beans, ends removed, cut into 1-inch pieces 1 16-ounce can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed 1 16-ounce can kidney beans, drained and rinsed ½ cup yellow ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

How to Use Reference Books There are many kinds of reference books. In the following section we will confine ourselves mainly to the two most used kinds, dictionaries and encyclopedias. ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Sean Manning

DFW, in his sleep: “It’s fun to read.” “Doctors can’t say ‘Oops,’” the doctor said. “Doctors say ‘There.’” The doctor had his costume—the same one Dr. Drew wears, except a ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Charlie Lovett

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 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-02 | Author:Steve Berry

FIFTY RAMSEY WAS THRILLED. EVERYTHING HAD PLAYED OUT PRECISELY as he’d predicted. Aatos Kane might or might not be the next president but, if he managed the feat, Ramsey’s legacy ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Lee Child

* * * CODES USED BY THE MILITARY POLICE * * * 10–2 Ambulance urgently needed 10-3 Motor vehicle accident 10-4 Wrecker requested 10-7 Pick up prisoner 10-8 Subject in ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-06 | Author:Philip K. Dick

11 Garland said, “I guess so.” He jabbed a finger at the bounty hunter Phil Resch. “But I’m warning you: you’re not going to like the results of the tests.” ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1971-05-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac

15 I put on my new flannel shirt and new socks and underwear and my jeans and packed the rucksack tight and slung it on and went to San Francisco ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Georges Perec

The Altamonts hesitated for a long time before ordering their portrait, probably held back by Hutting’s prices, pitched beyond the means of all but the chairmen and managing directors of ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:F. G. Cottam

Eighteen In the Windmill on Lambeth High Street, the bell tolled for last orders. Through the little speakers on their shelf behind the bar, Marvin Gaye lamented his good friend ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Ramsey Campbell

The Show Goes On The nails were worse than rusty; they had snapped. Under cover of several coats of paint, both the door and its frame had rotted. As Lee ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2004-06-13 | Author:Louisa May Alcott

* * * Chapter VIII Jasper She led them to the north gallery, and pausing at the door, said, merrily: "The ghost, or ghosts rather, for there were two, which ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )