Criticism & Theory
mobi, pdf, epub |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 June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-11 | Author:George Bernard Shaw

LOUIS [ignoring their outcry] She was married to the steward of a liner. He cleared out and left her; and she thought, poor girl, that it was the law that ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Voltaire

XIX What happened to them at Surinam,ay and how Candide got to know Martin Our travellers’ first day’s journey was very pleasant; they were elated with the prospect of possessing ...
( Category: French June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-15 | Author:Booth, Wayne C. [Booth, Wayne C.]

“If anything I have said seems sharp or gossipy, remember that it is Folly and a woman who has spoken.” —ERASMUS “I had got my Lady into such a terror ...
( Category: Fiction June 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Tim Parks

DOES MONEY MAKE US WRITE BETTER? LET’S TALK ABOUT money. In his history of world art, E. H. Gombrich mentions a Renaissance artist whose uneven work was a puzzle, until ...
( Category: General June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Langdon Hammer [Hammer, Langdon]

Taki got his visa yesterday. Have I explained about him? If I haven’t it’s too complicated to go into, but we’ve known him 5 years, + now we are taking ...
( Category: Love Poems June 1,2015 )
azw |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Eliot, T. S. [Eliot, T. S.]

( Category: European June 1,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * FRIENDSHIP. A RUDDY drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. I fancied he was fled, And, ...
( Category: United States May 30,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Bergson, Henri [Bergson, Henri]

CHAPTER III THE COMIC IN CHARACTER * * * I We have followed the comic along many of its winding channels in an endeavour to discover how it percolates into ...
( Category: Rationalism May 30,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * GIFTS. Gifts of one who loved me,-- 'T was high time they came; When he ceased to love me, Time they stopped for shame. V. GIFTS. IT ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * NATURE[469] The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-27 | Author:Samuel Beckett [Samuel Beckett]

at the faint sound so brief it is gone and the whole globe not yet bare the eye opens wide wide till in the end nothing more shutters it again ...
( Category: European May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel Beckett

Enough All that goes before forget. Too much at a time is too much. That gives the pen time to note. I don't see it but I hear it there ...
( Category: Short Stories May 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Sylvia Plath]

Little Fugue The yew’s black fingers wag; Cold clouds go over. So the deaf and dumb Signal the blind, and are ignored. I like black statements. The featurelessness of that ...
( Category: Poetry May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Jamaica Kincaid

Notes and Comment A letter from a young woman we know: When I decided that the place I was living in was too small for me, I told everyone that ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American May 27,2015 )