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From Here to Eternity (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Jones
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:James Jones

30 It was while they were at Hickam Field on this problem that they wrote the Re-enlistment Blues. It was to be the original, the real, the one and only, ...
( Category: Military February 16,2020 )
The Marquise of O– by Heinrich von Kleist
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist [Heinrich Von Kleist]

Before she could read even halfway through this unprecedented piece the Colonel’s wife was speechless. She glanced fleetingly at the end and gave the sheet back to the Commandant. He ...
( Category: German February 16,2020 )
There's Something About Darcy by Gabrielle Malcolm
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Gabrielle Malcolm [Malcolm, Gabrielle]

Hugh Thomson illustration, 1894 Thomson’s illustrations of Austen were set in an idealised, non-industrial nineteenth-century world without grimness or deprivation. This effect is now light-heartedly known as the ‘Cranfordisation’ of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 16,2020 )
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 1998-07-21 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 16,2020 )
The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
epub |eng | 2004-04-29 | Author:Baldassare Castiglione [Castiglione, Baldassare]

‘This kind of joke is played very often; but more amusing still are jokes that are frightening to begin with but have a happy ending, for then the victim too ...
( Category: Renaissance February 16,2020 )
Smoke (Alma Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | 2019-10-17 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

17 Litvinov did not return home; he went off into the mountains and, making his way into a thicket, threw himself to the ground and lay there prone for about ...
( Category: Russian February 16,2020 )
Selected Poems by Victor Hugo
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

At Villequier Now that the monuments of Paris and its streets, Its fog and its buildings, are far from my eyes; And now that I am under the branches of ...
( Category: Renaissance February 16,2020 )
The Complete Old English Poems by Craig Williamson
epub |eng | 2017-02-03 | Author:Craig Williamson [Williamson, Craig]

THE WIFE’S LAMENT The Wife’s Lament has been read as a riddle, an allegory of the Church’s longing for Christ, a retainer’s lament for his lost lord, a speaking sword, ...
( Category: Renaissance February 15,2020 )
Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:David S. Reynolds [Reynolds, David S.]

The tensions between liberty and power, states’ rights and union, are here resolved by an “I” who proclaims both individuality and total equality with others. In the aftermath of Kansas-Nebraska ...
( Category: American Civil War February 15,2020 )
Viktor Shklovsky by Viktor Shklovsky Alexandra Berlina
epub |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:Viktor Shklovsky,Alexandra Berlina

Narrative Prose On the Absence of Clear Demarcations between “Fiction” and “Non-Fiction” There are no clear demarcations between imaginative literature and what we call non-fiction. Many texts that we ascribe ...
( Category: Russian February 14,2020 )
Shklovsky by Vitale Serena; Richards Jamie;
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Vitale, Serena; Richards, Jamie;

You knew Esenin, no? When he was still in his “peasant” period, before the revolution. Yes, and I’ve written about the spats incident. When Zinaida Gippius asked him: “It seems ...
( Category: Russian February 14,2020 )
Complete Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Edmund Spenser

Canto X Prince Arthur takes the enterprize For Belgee for to fight: Gerioneos seneschall He slayes in Belges right. I SOME clarkes doe doubt in their devicefull art, Whether this ...
( Category: Renaissance February 14,2020 )
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-10-02 | Author:Graham Greene

Chapter 11 AFTER HE LEFT me, Martins went straight off to drink himself silly. He chose the Oriental to do it in, the dreary smoky little night club that stands ...
( Category: Murder February 14,2020 )
A Life with Mary Shelley by Johnson Barbara
epub |eng | 2014-02-13 | Author:Johnson, Barbara [Johnson, Barbara]

CHAPTER FOUR Lord Byron Byron was a commercial success and a famous figure in English Romanticism. But his fame as the “Byronic hero” was more biographical than textual, more mythical ...
( Category: European February 14,2020 )
The American Classics by Denis Donoghue
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Denis Donoghue

2 If Walden and the other books constitute, as I suggest, Thoreau’s “song of myself,” we need to trace its coordinate terms, beginning with his god-term. Like Emerson, Thoreau tended ...
( Category: United States February 13,2020 )

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