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The Virtues of Poetry by James Longenbach
epub |eng | | Author:James Longenbach

Any reader might be forgiven for giving up at this point, since almost every line of Canto 74 demands a meticulous attention, diverting its readers from the increasingly unmanageable task ...
( Category: Poetry December 3,2015 )
You belong to me : and other true cases by Rule Ann
epub | | 1993-12-31 | Author:Rule, Ann

Rick Mcllwain and Phil Williams knew that they could not let Tim Harris cool off overnight. They still had too many unanswered questions. It just didn't make sense that Lorraine ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem December 1,2015 )
Wilfred Owen by Stallworthy Jon
epub |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Stallworthy, Jon [Stallworthy, Jon]

and Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, And ...
( Category: European November 27,2015 )
The Tale of Genji (unabridged) by Shikibu Murasaki
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Shikibu Murasaki [Murasaki, Shikibu]

1 This character does not appear elsewhere in the work. 2 The space was called the Kaedono. 3 The word for “early spring greens,” wakana, gives this chapter its title. ...
( Category: Japanese November 25,2015 )
The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-02 | Author:James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel [Kelly, James Patrick & Kessel, John]

For what makes SF wonderful and complicated is that mix of speculation and the fabulous: SF is both think-fiction and dream-fiction. For the first 60-odd years of the century American ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy November 24,2015 )
Hammett (CRIME MASTERWORKS) by Joe Gores
epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Joe Gores [Gores, Joe]

20 The three-room cottage was peak-roofed like the main house. Smoke wisped from the stovepipe through one side of the roof. Hammett rapped sharply at the door. ‘Hawkins, Mrs Starr. ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled November 24,2015 )
Selected Cronicas (New Directions Paperbook, 834) by Clarice Lispector
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 1996-11-16 | Author:Clarice Lispector

THE LEARNED MAN He now manages a shoe-shop. Not because he likes the job, but it was all he could find. He was forever asking himself: where did I go ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American November 17,2015 )
How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book) by Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Charles Van Doren & Mortimer J. Adler

15 Suggestions for Reading Stories, Plays, and Poems The parallel rules for reading imaginative literature that were discussed in the last chapter were general ones, applying across the board to ...
( Category: General November 15,2015 )
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion by Lee Gutkind
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Lee Gutkind [Gutkind, Lee]

The small Connecticut town my twin and I grew up in was called Bethel. Think of Mayberry, RFD, television’s version of Anytown, U.S.A. There was a brick town hall with ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 12,2015 )
Ted Hughes by Jonathan Bate
epub |eng | 2015-08-19 | Author:Jonathan Bate

In the summer of 1978, a year after the appearance of Gaudete, a black-bound volume of poems called Orts was published by Olwyn’s Rainbow Press, in an edition of 200 ...
( Category: Poetry November 12,2015 )
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Roland Barthes [Barthes, Roland]

La croisière du « Batory » Puisqu'il y a désormais des voyages bourgeois en Russie soviétique, la grande presse française a commencé d'élaborer quelques mythes d'assimilation de la réalité communiste. ...
( Category: Essays November 9,2015 )
Sketches By Boz by Dickens Charles
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

V. Horatio Sparkins ‘Indeed, my love, he paid Teresa very great attention on the last assembly night,’ said Mrs. Malderton, addressing her spouse, who, after the fatigues of the day ...
( Category: General November 4,2015 )
The Watsons by Jane Austen
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

"Now, my dear Emma," said Miss Watson, as soon as they were alone, "you must talk to me all the rest of the day without stopping, or I shall not ...
( Category: Historical November 1,2015 )
Jane Austen's Minor Works by Jane Austen
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

***** The next morning brought a great many visitors. It was the way of the place always to call on Mrs. Edwards the morning after a ball, and this neighbourly ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 1,2015 )
Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

The Steinbecks’ first Los Gatos house, Arroyo del Ajo (Garlic Gulch), where they lived from 1936 through 1938, and where the novelist wrote all of The Grapes of Wrath. [Steinbeck ...
( Category: United States October 19,2015 )

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