Criticism & Theory
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Gertrude Stein

ROOMS Act so that there is no use in a centre. A wide action is not a width. A preparation is given to the ones preparing. They do not eat ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Laurie Colwin

37 Although I had nowhere to go and nothing much to do, one afternoon a week a very nice girl from the local design college—a redhead who wore yellow and ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Brian Morton

54 Florence was planning to go to a meeting at NYU, not far from the library. She asked Emily to find her there that day and give her the next ...
( Category: Family Life December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Derek Walcott

III At the Queen’s Park Hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms, I reenter my first local mirror. A skidding roach in the porcelain basin slides from its path to Parnassus. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:May Sarton [Sarton, May]

15 It is time for a lull and I am happy to have the afternoon ahead of me here at the store, for once hoping that not too many people ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | 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 December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

We believe him because what he writes “rings true,” but also because, like Cephalus in Plato’s Republic, he is now nearly free of the world and its ambitions, of the ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-12 | Author:Anton Chekhov

V ‘I haven’t died,’ Olga thought when she became aware of her surroundings again and the pains had gone. A bright summer’s day looked in through the two wide-open bedroom ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Lurie, Alison [Lurie, Alison]

Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. Turning aside (in the light of the current political situation, an excellent choice), he continues “down long wiggled roads” toward what Seuss ...
( Category: Children's Literature December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Kuan-Chung, Lo [Kuan-Chung, Lo]

CHAPTER IXC SACRIFICE AT LU SHUI : HOMEWARD MARCH: ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL: CHUKO'S MEMORIAL Menghuo at the head of the Man Chieftains and Notables, with the Lotos, attended to ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Kuan-Chung, Lo [Kuan-Chung, Lo]

Vainly now for chances lost Yuan sighs; once he was great. Had he taken Hsu's advice, Ts'ao had rot set up a State. Hsu Yu stealthily left the camp and ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

Now, as I continue to dance about the memory of my foolish encounter with Canetti in Berlin, imitating Barth’s felicitous footfalls, the moment becomes as full of significance as it ...
( Category: Authorship December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-12-26 | Author:Anton Chekhov

IV On the morning of the Monday in Passion Week, Matvey was in his room and could hear Dashutka saying to Aglaya, ‘A few days ago Uncle Matvey was telling ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1979-06-16 | Author:Hilda Doolittle [Doolittle, Hilda]

May 10 This is an earlier Canto (IV), it is true, but this theme runs through the Pisan series and the later Rock-Drill, to the end, so far, to 1955. ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:James Phelan [Phelan, James]

‘That’s it!’ Sam said. ‘That’s your Gear!’ ‘Gear?’ ‘A cog, part of a machine—part of the machine I was telling you about.’ ‘Oh. Ohl’ ‘That’s why I’m here, Maria, to ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 27,2014 )