Criticism & Theory
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Tom Shippey

No motion has she now, no force, She neither hears nor sees, Roll’d round in earth’s diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees! He should have written ‘stocks’, not ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist

The Beggarwoman of Locarno IN the foothills of the Alps, near Locarno in northern Italy, there used to stand an old castle belonging to an Italian marquis, which can now, ...
( Category: German March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2008-09-17 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

13 Eric and Tom drove off in Eric’s car for the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, which Eric said was less than fifteen minutes away. Peter had departed, promising to come ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-04-15 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

Twenty-four For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

Chapter 13 Tom got a taxi, after several minutes’ effort, and asked the driver please to aim for Covent Garden, and gave Ed’s address. Seven twenty-two by Tom’s watch. His ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Stanislaw Lem

Metafantasia: The Possibilities of Science Fiction Let us demonstrate three possible types of science fiction by way of three fictional examples. Our first example is a work about a system ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1938-03-24 | Author:Lovecraft, Howard Phillips [Lovecraft, Howard Phillips]

Chapter 9 The Weird Tradition in the British Isles Recent British literature, besides including the three or four greatest fantaisistes of the present age, has been gratifyingly fertile in the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-10 | Author:David Baggett; Shawn Klein

There is one last point we must note about Aristotle’s account of the virtues. Aristotle recognized that all of our important choices in life take place in emotional contexts. What ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-09-01 | Author:Thomas Mann

11 Herr Klöterjahn knocked at the door of Herr Spinell’s room; he held a large, neatly written sheet of paper in one hand, and wore the air of a man ...
( Category: German March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Lewis Hyde

I opened the chapter on the increase of gifts with a description of a first-fruits ritual—the salmon bones returned to the sea that the salmon might remain plentiful. In the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

How to Use Reference Books There are many kinds of reference books. In the following section we will confine ourselves mainly to the two most used kinds, dictionaries and encyclopedias. ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Georges Perec

The Altamonts hesitated for a long time before ordering their portrait, probably held back by Hutting’s prices, pitched beyond the means of all but the chairmen and managing directors of ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2004-06-13 | Author:Louisa May Alcott

* * * Chapter VIII Jasper She led them to the north gallery, and pausing at the door, said, merrily: "The ghost, or ghosts rather, for there were two, which ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-04-15 | Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle

4. ONE SLIT’S ENOUGH As it turned out, Dr. Brush wasn’t a man to rock the boat, even if it was in his power to do so, which it wasn’t. ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )