azw3 |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Pu Songling [Songling, Pu]

66 MYNAH BIRD Wang Fenbin once told this story about a man in his native town who kept a mynah bird. The man taught it to speak, and they became ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:mountain tasting [tasting, mountain]

* * * 49 Nothing left to eat; Today's sunrise. 50 If it shines, it bleats; If it is cloudy, it bleats-- The single goat. 51 Now I stand here, ...

epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Ezra Pound & Haun Saussy & Ernest Fenollosa & Jonathan Stalling & Lucas Klein [Pound, Ezra]

But this transcendence of parts of speech is only the beginning of the matter. So far we have been dealing with visible acts and truths; but by far the larger ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Knight, Sabina [Knight, Sabina]

Though Selections of Literature excluded “little talk,” by the early Song dynasty the genre had developed to the point that the emperor commissioned a compendium of roughly seven thousand such ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Shikibu Murasaki [Murasaki, Shikibu]

1 This character does not appear elsewhere in the work. 2 The space was called the Kaedono. 3 The word for “early spring greens,” wakana, gives this chapter its title. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ogai Mori

* * * When I was fifteen . . . After the final exams at the close of the past year there had been such a great weeding out of ...

mobi |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:

Father Pedro de San Dominico Matthias Francisco Gorosuke Miguel Shin’emon Dominico Kisuke This list includes only the names of the priests and monks who were martyred in the village in ...

epub | | | Author:Confessions of a Mask (New Directions, 1958)

epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Luo Guanzhong

Lu Su hastened back to Zhou Yu to tell him that all was going as he desired and Liu Bei would come out to welcome the army. Zhou Yu laughed ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Roy, David Tod

Ch’un-mei Manages Coquettishly to Resist Hsi-men Ch’ing Laid by every man in the street, and Fucked by every guy in the alley, why should I deserve to be so reviled ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Luo Guanzhong

On hearing of the approach of Cao Cao and his army, Zhang Xiu wrote to Liu Biao for help. Then he led his men out of the city under the ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa

An hour later he sat at breakfast with Toshihito and his father−in−law, Arihito. In front of him was a huge vat filled to the brim with a tremendous sea of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Fumiko Enchi [Enchi, Fumiko]

Korechika had commissioned the Daigen Service, a rite properly limited to the court—had all been eclipsed by their one distinct act of attacking retired Emperor Kazan. All at once, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Izumi Kyoka [Kyoka, Izumi]

21 "That made sense, as he had noticed what looked like coins scattered among the leaves on the ground. With the curtain open, he could see the shallow cavity carved ...

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 ...