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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 )
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews
epub, azw3 |eng | 1976-01-02 | Author:Harry Crews [Crews, Harry]

*** They had fought each other to an absolute draw on the bench, but they both knew that one of them would have lost if Duffy Deeter had not run ...
( Category: General March 22,2015 )
Dalva by Jim Harrison
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Harrison

May, the week of the 22nd, 1866 Camped here ten days along a stream I take to be Warbonnet Creek. I am now more alone than I thought possible and ...
( Category: General March 21,2015 )
Hours by Cunningham Michael
epub |eng | 2000-02-07 | Author:Cunningham, Michael [Cunningham, Michael]

Laura glances over at Richie. He is still holding the red truck. He is still watching. "Please don't worry," Laura says to Kitty. "You'll be fine." Kitty stands, gracefully, without ...
( Category: United States March 19,2015 )
Year of Reading Dangerously : How Fifty Great Books (And Two Not-so-great Ones) Saved My Life (9780062100627) by Miller Andy
epub |eng | | Author:Miller, Andy

III ‘Mais ne lisez pas, comme les enfants lisent, pour vous amuser, ni comme les ambitieux lisent, pour vous instruire. Non, lisez pour vivre.’ ‘But do not read, as children ...
( Category: General March 7,2015 )

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