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American Little Magazines of the Fin De Siecle by MacLeod Kirsten;
epub |eng | | Author:MacLeod, Kirsten;

At the same time, portraits of writers were a dominant feature of the magazine in this early period, and would remain so. These generally appeared in conjunction with an article ...
( Category: History of Books June 26,2019 )
Wed, Read & Dead by V.M. Burns
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:V.M. Burns

Harold and Mom were already downstairs when we arrived. The last to arrive were the couple with the shortest commute. Margaret and Oscar strolled in right as the waiter was ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling June 12,2019 )
Shakespeare and Company by Beach Sylvia
epub |eng | 1959-04-28 | Author:Beach, Sylvia [Beach, Sylvia]

0> ^^- or those to be tipped could simply help themselves. Thus did Scott shed all he earned without concern for the future. It was through Scott, I imagine, that ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling May 29,2019 )
Consciousness and the Novel by David Lodge
epub |eng | 2002-11-06 | Author:David Lodge [David Lodge]

Furthermore, Forster grafted onto the form of the well-made traditional novel a subtle use of symbolic patterning, the repetition-with-variation of resonant phrases and images, which he himself called, in his ...
( Category: General May 18,2017 )
The Short Drop (The Gibson Vaughn Series) by Matthew FitzSimmons
epub |eng | 2015-12-01 | Author:Matthew FitzSimmons [FitzSimmons, Matthew]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Jenn watched Kirby Tate on a bank of monitors. It was dark in his cell, Tate a ghostly green on the screen. From bound wrists he hung, arms ...
( Category: Espionage April 26,2017 )
Sweet Theft by J.D. McClatchy
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:J.D. McClatchy

- “ ‘I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness.’ “ ...
( Category: General March 22,2017 )
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Richard Cohen [Cohen, Richard]

* * * *1 When concerns were expressed about over-subtlety in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen twitted: “I do not write for such dull elves/As have not a great deal ...
( Category: General August 11,2016 )
Discontent and Its Civilizations (NF8) by Mohsin Hamid
mobi |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Mohsin Hamid

POLITICS 8 The Usual Ally Divided We Fall After Sixty Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn? The Usual Ally I REMEMBER, as a boy in Lahore, the moment I learned Pakistan ...
( Category: General July 18,2016 )
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays by Cynthia Ozick
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick

Transcending the Kafkaesque How, after all, does one dare, how can one presume? Franz Kafka, named for the fallen crown of a defunct empire, has himself metamorphosed into an empire ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2016 )
The Well-Educated Mind by Bauer Susan Wise
epub |eng | 2015-11-15 | Author:Bauer, Susan Wise

THE PURPOSE OF DRAMA (OR, WHY BUY A TICKET?) In 1959, the dramatist Harold Habson—faced with plays full of symbols and absurdities—wrote indignantly, “It is time someone reminded our advanced ...
( Category: General June 11,2016 )
ABC of Reading (New Directions Paperbook) by Ezra Pound
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:Ezra Pound [Pound, Ezra]

. . . . . Chaucer is aware of life … parity with Shakespeare. He is informed, and understands the intellectual conquests of Europe … in a way that Will ...
( Category: United States May 14,2016 )
The True Tails of Baker and Taylor by Jan Louch
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Louch

* * * LIBRARY CAT PROFILE: STACKS Stacks is a brown tabby who has been a dedicated member of the staff at the New Castle Public Library in New Castle, ...
( Category: General May 12,2016 )
Second Words by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

The North, the Wilderness, has traditionally been used in Canadian literature as a symbol for the world of the unexplored, the unconscious, the romantic, the mysterious and the magical. There ...
( Category: United States May 9,2016 )
The Good Story by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

EIGHT Group experiences: music, football, ecstatic religion. Shared ‘knowledge’ within the group. Theoretical problems about group thought. The individual versus the group: personal experience in South Africa. Nationalism as regressive ...
( Category: General April 30,2016 )
A Most Dangerous Book by Christopher B. Krebs
epub |ara, deu, eng, fra, ita | 2011-08-08 | Author:Christopher B. Krebs

8. A Germanic farmer in Justus Möser’s History of Osnabrück. Widener Library, Harvard College Library, 47528.1.10. A woodcut adorns the History of Osnabrück. Traditional and Tacitean, it looks back to ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )

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