Criticism & Theory
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Anaïs Nin [Nin, Anaïs]

Suicide was a grand, dark continent to be charted and I was its cartographer. Suicides were the aristocrats of death—God’s graduate students, acting out their theses to prove how limited ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1992-08-16 | Author:Hugo, Richard [Hugo, Richard]

Be glad of the green wall You climbed across one day, When winter stung with ice That vacant paradise. It is paradise because it is vacant, like a blank sheet ...
( Category: Poetry January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Jenny Davidson

Anton Voyl n’arrivait pas à dormir. Il alluma. Son Jaz marquait minuit vingt. Il poussa un profond soupir, s’assit dans son lit, s’appuyant sur son polochon. Il prit un roman, ...
( Category: Fiction January 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

The View from Castle Rock THE FIRST TIME Andrew was ever in Edinburgh he was ten years old. With his father and some other men he climbed a slippery black ...
( Category: Short Stories January 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1964-01-24 | Author:Snorri Sturluson [Snorri Sturluson]

Chapter 144. The King Proceeds South along the Land with His Fleet But now we shall tell about the happenings touched on before, namely King Óláf’s sailing with his fleet ...
( Category: Medieval January 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1986-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Crime January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou

22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 17,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Simon Malpas

4 HISTORY The second key aspect of modernity that Habermas’s discussion in Chapter 2 focused on is the notion of historical development and progress towards more rational and just forms ...
( Category: Postmodernism January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Alexander Kent [Kent, Alexander]

Richard Bolitho Midshipman 6 Face to Face `Easy there! Watch your stroke!' Hope, the Gorgon's fifth lieutenant, hissed in the darkness, craning forward from the sternsheets as if to seek ...
( Category: European January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Edward Bunker [Bunker, Edward]

Standard procedure for the parolee is to visit the parole officer - now known as the parole agent — the day after release, where he is given the rest of ...
( Category: Crime January 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1872-01-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER VII: DICK MAKES HIMSELF USEFUL The effect of Geoffrey’s incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...
( Category: British & Irish January 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]

( Category: African-American Studies January 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-02 | Author:Andrew Bernstein

Howard Roark Summary In the spring of 1935, Howard Roark completes a summer resort, Monadnock Valley, in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Monadnock Valley is both an artistic and a commercial ...
( Category: United States January 10,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Daum, Meghan [Daum, Meghan]

TOY CHILDREN Though I had a stuffed-animal collection that rivaled the inventory of a Toys “R” Us, I was a child who hated dolls. By “hate,” I’m not talking about ...
( Category: Essays January 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-19 | Author:Matthew Bevis [Bevis, Matthew]

From the 18th century onwards, comedy increasingly imagines the stock type from within, pondering what it would feel like to be a fool or clown (see Figure 11). 11. Henry ...
( Category: Humor January 8,2015 )