mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Bloom, Harold [Bloom, Harold]

In leprosy; thin dry blades pricked the mud Which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, Stood stupefied, however he came there: Thrust ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Gottschall, Jonathan [Gottschall, Jonathan]

VIRTUE REWARDED The Greek philosopher Plato banished poets and storytellers from his ideal republic for, among other sins, peddling immoral fare. And Plato’s was just the first in a long ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Philbrick, Nathaniel

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 ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-07 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

6—Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete All that evening smart sounds denoting an active packing up came from Yeobright's room to the ears of his mother downstairs. Next morning ...

epub |eng | | Author:Francine Prose

True, the ending happens just as the Franks and their friends had feared all along: their hiding place is discovered, and they are carried away to their doom. But the ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Karen Joy Fowler

The phone rang and Grigg went to get it. “Bianca,” we heard. There was genuine pleasure in his voice, but not that kind of pleasure. Just a friend, we thought. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Anna Quindlen [QUINDLEN, ANNA]

Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you’ll go away and only ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Ryan, Michael [Ryan, Michael]

While many cultural assumptions about gender difference may be prejudices generated by past patriarchal practices that once served communal needs that are no longer as pressing, some are nevertheless real: ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Bruce McCall

After dunking a bunch of moldy old novels in the bathtub for fifteen minutes and letting them dry so the pages stick together, give one book to each person in ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Andrew Pettegree [Pettegree, Andrew]

An unintended victim of this crisis was the Licensing Act, which had been due for renewal and now lapsed. The collapse of the Gazette’s monopoly led to a flurry of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Pat Williams

Reading gives delight, information, stimulation, and ability. The wise crave it, the superficial discourage it, and the stupid neglect it. —Haddon Robinson, communicator Amazingly enough, in the first chapter, mention ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Stanley Wiater

KINGDOM HOSPITAL: PRIMARY SUBJECTS PETER RICKMAN: A gifted artist, Peter Rickman functions as King’s alter ego in the miniseries. Rickman (perhaps named after British horror writer Phil Rickman) finds himself ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Mendelsund, Peter [Mendelsund, Peter]

*** We colonize books with our familiars; and we exile, repatriate the characters to lands we are more acquainted with. We transpose works of nonfiction to similar effect. When I ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:John Gardner

or In the so-called periodic sentence, highly recommended by high-school English teachers, the most interesting or important thing in the sentence is pushed into the final slot, as in "Down ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Johnson, Celia Blue [Johnson, Celia Blue]

In the Shadow of Masters Many great writers developed their voices, in part, by tracing the words of their favorite predecessors. While Jack London handwrote Rudyard Kipling’s stories, Ray Bradbury ...