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Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-11 | Author:George Bernard Shaw

LOUIS [ignoring their outcry] She was married to the steward of a liner. He cleared out and left her; and she thought, poor girl, that it was the law that ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
Faker's Guide to the Classics by Michelle Witte
epub |eng | | Author:Michelle Witte [WITTE, MICHELLE]

Macbeth by William Shakespeare Published: 1606 Category: play (tragedy) Banned for: witchcraft. Those hags get such a bad rap. It’s not like they wanted murder and mayhem. They just set ...
( Category: General June 9,2015 )
Where I'm Reading From by Tim Parks
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Tim Parks

DOES MONEY MAKE US WRITE BETTER? LET’S TALK ABOUT money. In his history of world art, E. H. Gombrich mentions a Renaissance artist whose uneven work was a puzzle, until ...
( Category: General June 4,2015 )
Winds of Doctrine
mobi |eng | | Author:Santayana, George [Santayana, George]

* * * V SHELLEY: OR THE POETIC VALUE OF REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES It is possible to advocate anarchy in criticism as in politics, and there is perhaps nothing coercive to ...
( Category: General May 30,2015 )
When Day is Done
mobi |eng | | Author:Guest, Edgar A. [Guest, Edgar A.]

Produced by Ted Garvin, Ginny Brewer and PG Distributed Proofreaders Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions ...
( Category: State & Local May 30,2015 )
Beckett Remembering / Remembering Beckett
epub | | 2010-12-31 | Author:James Knowlson

Eileen O’Casey Eileen O’Casey née Carey (1900-95), singer, dancer and actress who married Sean O’Casey in 1927. Mother of Niall, Shivaun and Breon. She wrote a biography of her husband, ...
( Category: General May 28,2015 )
The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Harold Bloom [Bloom, Harold]

There is power in this pathos, but Priscilla is possessed in a mode that discomforts me; yet that is Hawthorne’s deliberate artistry. Her clinging weakness provokes eros in Hollingsworth and ...
( Category: United States May 25,2015 )
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Batuman Elif
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Batuman, Elif [Batuman, Elif]

Every day for two hours, after my language class with Muzaffar, I studied “Old Uzbek” literature with Dilorom Salohiy, an assistant professor at Samarkand State University. Dilorom, who held doctoral ...
( Category: Russian April 27,2015 )
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:John Sutherland [Sutherland, John]

The American writer of this period who most perfectly fits Baudelaire's description of the modern poet is Walt Whitman (1819–92). The title of one of his poems, ‘Manhattan Streets I ...
( Category: General April 22,2015 )
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
epub |eng | 2002-04-04 | Author:Will Durant

CHAPTER FIVE The Ten “Peaks” of Human Progress INTHE YEAR 1794 a young French aristocrat by the magnificent name of Marquis Marie Jean de Condorcet was hiding from the guillotine ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Jacques Bonnet

6 READING PICTURES Libraries, like museums, are a refuge from old age, sickness and death. JEAN GRENIER In my study, the bookshelves are all devoted to art history. On my ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:John Sutherland

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
The New York Times Book of New York by The New York Times
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:The New York Times

They’re Her Colors. We Just Wear Them. By AMANDA PRISCHAK | June 22, 2008 Essie Weingarten, founder and president of Essie Nail Polish based in Astoria, Queens. ESSIE WEINGARTEN IS ...
( Category: General April 5,2015 )
Reading Style by Jenny Davidson
mobi |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Jenny Davidson

Anton Voyl n’arrivait pas à dormir. Il alluma. Son Jaz marquait minuit vingt. Il poussa un profond soupir, s’assit dans son lit, s’appuyant sur son polochon. Il prit un roman, ...
( Category: Fiction April 5,2015 )
Edge of Midnight by Shannon McKenna
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-14 | Author:Shannon McKenna [McKenna, Shannon]

Chapter 16 S omething was wrong with Tam. She wasn’t any pricklier than usual, but she had a strange vibe. Stranger than usual, that was.He would almost describe it as ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 27,2015 )

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