General Books & Reading
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Meredith Maran [Maran, Meredith]
I got sober twenty years ago. I wrote my first two books of poetry while I was still drinking. I revised the second one in the loony bin. I knew ...
( Category:
Essays
March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Money
'Columbia, Slick... Chicago, LA, wherever — in America our seats of learning are surrounded by the worst, the biggest, the most desperate ratshit slums in the civilized world. It seems ...
( Category:
Satire
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick
14 Unflinching Reality Within weeks of meeting Melville in August 1850, Hawthorne had procured copies of the young novelist’s two latest books, Redburn and White-Jacket. Both were based on Melville’s ...
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United States
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1999-01-15 | Author:Henry Petroski
In the 1777 edition of Comenius’s book the illustration of the bookseller’s shop was updated to show that the shelves were stocked with bound books with their spines facing out. ...
( Category:
General
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
How to Use Reference Books There are many kinds of reference books. In the following section we will confine ourselves mainly to the two most used kinds, dictionaries and encyclopedias. ...
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General Books & Reading
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Zadie Smith
2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category:
Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Frederick Busch
And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would throw himself back in reveries—tallied him, ...
( Category:
History of Books
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:David Foster Wallace
MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category:
Postmodernism
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-08 | Author:FRANCINE PROSE
EDWARD CASAUBON The marriage takes place, and next we catch up with Dorothea on her honeymoon in Rome, sobbing bitterly because she has just begun to understand what sort of ...
( Category:
Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Stanley Fish
(1925) Is this a sentence? It doesn’t have a beginning, middle, or end, and as you read it you can’t chart its progress toward a designed close. Who says “she ...
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General Books & Reading
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1995-12-14 | Author:Eugene H. Peterson
1. Dante, THE DIVINE COMEDY, translated by Dorothy Sayers (1949-62). There are occasional moments when a culture, the church, and an individual person converge in such a way that everything ...
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General Books & Reading
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Kathleen T. Horning
CHAPTER 6 Easy Readers and Transitional Books It is a common misconception among many adults that picture books are the best books to give a child who is just learning ...
( Category:
Children's Literature
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2004-09-21 | Author:A. J. Jacobs
mammals Elephant copulation lasts twenty seconds. That should make a lot of men feel better. Mann, Horace In his final speech, the educational reformer told students: "Be ashamed to die ...
( Category:
History of Books
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Edwidge Danticat
The next day, I called Tante Zi and explained all that I’d learned about Marius’s return to Haiti. Tante Zi was aware of the funeral home cost, she said; she ...
( Category:
Caribbean & Latin American
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]
“It’s a mercy she’s got something to distract her,” said Mrs Burt as Crosby passed the kitchen window the day after the funeral in her best mantle and bonnet; for ...
( Category:
European
March 25,2014 )
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