General Books & Reading
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:John O'Connell

After her death the dolphin, injured and bleeding, emerges from the water in an attempt to find its old friend, only to die itself. But Camara and Shambowa’s idyll is ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 7,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]

Description: Odds and Ends Emotional Description Physical sensations can be among the most difficult experiences to describe. An itch for instance: in most cases just the word itch works well ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Daniel Mendelsohn

This is the conclusion to which many good biographies, to say nothing of some very good novels, also lead. “The poor thing that is himself ” is hardly the way ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-05 | Author:Robert Hass

In this case right relation to nature is, it would seem, an eye to beauty and an imagination open to the myth-world. HORACE 7.Horace published—I am a little hazy about ...
( Category: Poetry March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Pettegree;Arthur der Weduwen;

CHAPTER ELEVEN Bookshop of the World IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS we have had the opportunity to marvel at the sheer number of books emerging from the print shops of the ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Abbott, Allyson R. [Abbott, Allyson R.]

Revealing the ending. Never, ever do that. Or spoil the book for future readers. Even if it’s romance and everyone knows a romance has a HEA (Happy Ever After) ending. ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Arnold Weinstein

UNFOLDING OUR PAST At the end of To the Lighthouse, Woolf’s great novel about life, death, memory, and art, Lily Briscoe, trying to re-create via her painting the lost Mrs. ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp [Gelman, Judy]

Check for bones in the fillets and place the big chunks of fish into the béchamel, stirring them in gently so the fish doesn’t break up too much. Butter an ...
( Category: Thanksgiving February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jen Adams

McCOURT Angela’s Ashes He made me fall back in love with words. After giving me Vonnegut, Heller, Salinger, and Orwell, my first love shyly offered his copy of Angela’s Ashes ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gladys Hunt [Gladys Hunt]

Biography Since I sing the merits of reading the writings of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, I have devoured Humphrey Carpenter’s The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. ...
( Category: Women's Issues February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-11 | Author:Ander Monson

Over the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, ...
( Category: Essays February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Haycraft, Howard;

III It is perhaps inevitable that any evolutionary study of a literary form must give most of its attention to the innovators and experimentalists. The very number of the conventionalists, ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-18 | Author:Jerome Charyn

5 BABEL MAY HAVE WALKED PARIS, but he was no flâneur, like Walter Benjamin or Baudelaire. Benjamin was a pathfinder who could feel the lyrical pull between epochs, fall upon ...
( Category: Jewish February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-03 | Author:Helen Taylor

Killer Women and Cozy Crime As I’ve discussed in relation to romance and erotica, in recent years the issue of violence against women has become a major moral, political, and ...
( Category: History of Books February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-23 | Author:Jane Alison

I’m wearing a dress of real silk, but it’s threadbare, almost transparent. It used to belong to my mother. . . . I’m wearing a leather belt with it, perhaps ...
( Category: General Books & Reading February 18,2020 )