Criticism & Theory
epub |eng | 2011-03-12 | Author:Janet Burroway [Burroway, Janet]

22.3 Better, since we are dealing with a verbal medium, these questions might be translated: Who speaks? To whom? In what form? At what distance from the action? With what ...
( Category: Fiction June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Elena Poniatowska

33 WHITE RABBITS LEONORA REVOLVES BENEATH THE SKYSCRAPERS, in ecstasy over this new life which makes her seasick with its speed and the force of its energy. How is it ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

CHAPTER XXIII Retaliation The public-house that had been chosen by the leaders of the press-gang in Monkshaven at this time, for their rendezvous (or ‘Randyvowse’, as it was generally pronounced), ...
( Category: Victorian June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-10 | Author:Medora Sale [Sale, Medora]

Fielding was containing his joy at the sight of Sanders pretty effectively. “Yes?” he said, drawling out the word insultingly. “Simple matter, Mr. Fielding. I would like to know the ...
( Category: Women Writers June 11,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:William Beckford [Beckford, William]

SATIRES II From Modern Novel Writing or the Elegant Enthusiast, by Lady Harriet Malowy [i.e. William Beckford], 2 Vols, London, 1796. The extracts are given the volume number and the ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
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: Poetry June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:V. S. Naipaul

‘Savi, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘Anand, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘It nice?’ ‘Very nice.’ ‘Ma, Savi and Anand drinking Ovaltine. Their pappa give it to them.’ ‘Well, let me tell ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:P. D. James

It seems a little unjust to classify Agatha Christie's characters as being on the Punch level. She is more than that. She may draw them in clear outline with none ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-03-29 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

We suffered much, and made a narrow escape; but fortune befriended us, as well as our mates in the long-boat. We landed, in fine, more dead than alive, after four ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-07 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

The Oval Portrait THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1997-08-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“August, 1845. “Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright, as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-12-15 | Author:Tony Augarde

( Category: Criticism & Theory June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-11-08 | Author:Oscar Wilde

I knew the Church condemned accidia, but the whole idea seemed to me quite fantastic, just the sort of sin, I fancied, a priest who knew nothing about real life ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-12-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-03-22 | Author:Lisa Zunshine

FIGURE 2. Clarissa dying. Reproduced courtesy of McMaster University Library. (a) Mind-Games in Clarissa Clarissa is a story of two brilliant young people, Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace, fatally misreading ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )