Criticism & Theory
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

CHAPTER XI Nevertheless events did not turn out as Chichikov had intended they should. In the first place, he overslept himself. That was check number one. In the second place, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Truman Capote

I went straight upstairs, got the bird cage, took it down and left it in front of her door. That settled that. Or so I imagined until the next morning ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2000-07-25 | Author:Henry James

| Go to Contents | Longstaff's Marriage Forty years ago that traditional and anecdotical liberty of young American women which is notoriously the envy and despair of their foreign sisters ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-30 | Author:Anne Perry

Tea was actually served nearly ten minutes late, and Vita was not present. It was left to Clarice to host the small gathering and to try to make some sort ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Michael Ondaatje

October 3. Old white trees. We take a brush light in one hand and ride into the aspens at night. There were horses in there, half asleep, walking like an ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:A. S. Byatt

The People in the House in the House There was once a little girl who was very kind to little creatures. She used to make nests and put them out ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1979-12-31 | Author:William Horwood

26 THEY stayed for several weeks near the field to which Boswell had led them. Not only were they all tired and in need of rest and food to regain ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Salman Rushdie

Two days after Haroun lectured an egg-laying turtle about revolution, Rani Harappa at Mohenjo was telephoned by a male voice so muted, so crippled by apologies and embarrassment that it ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Laurence Sterne

CHAP. XXXIV With two strokes, the one at Hippocrates, the other at Lord Verulam, did my father atchieve it. The stroke at the prince of physicians, with which he began, ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ross, David A. [Ross, David A.]

with Laura playing the role of vivien ( MM 35). (1928) Yeats included Time and the Witch Vivien in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889), but see Part ...
( Category: Poetry March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-10-24 | Author:Irwin, Robert [Irwin, Robert]

Essentially the same pneumatic image can be reconstructed from the Nights. When, in ‘The Tale of Omar bin al-Nu’uman’, the Muslim warrior Sharrkan wrestled with the Christian princess Abrizah, he ...
( Category: Medieval March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1975-01-15 | Author:Ayn Rand

(May-July 1969) 7. The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age PRIOR to the nineteenth century, literature presented man as a helpless being whose life and actions were determined by forces beyond ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Marjorie Garber

The reading tactic deployed here is, as I’ve noted, what has been variously called close reading or slow reading or reading in slow motion. The latter phrase is that of ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:William Irwin; Gregory Bassham

PART FOUR THE ROOM OF REQUIREMENT: A POTTER POTPOURRI 10 IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHO’S TO SAY? Tamar Szabó Gendler On October 19, 2007, before a packed audience at Carnegie Hall ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Christopher Booker

`Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom ... all was clear ... the cache had ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )