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Chicago and the Making of American Modernism by Michelle E Moore
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michelle E Moore [Moore, Michelle E]

The bad business of patronage By late 1924, Hemingway had seen enough of the avant-garde writing business to understand that one couldn’t really go at it well without a patron. ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2018-05-03 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Descriptions of Humanity (Physical) ¶ They rode through those five years in an open car with the sun on their foreheads and their hair flying. They waved to people they ...
( Category: Essays January 17,2020 )
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson
epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Tove Jansson [Tove Jansson]

Ham and I spent ten days: See Letters to Vivica Bandler, Unknown date in a snowstorm. 1950. Started writing the first Moomin story: The date of writing Småtrollen och den ...
( Category: Scandinavian January 17,2020 )
The Cat in the Treble Clef by Louis de Bernières
epub |eng | | Author:Louis de Bernières

IN HAMBLEDON CHURCHYARD, THE GRAVE OF LUCY PARKER I saw your stone and stood appalled, Here in the Surrey Hills, With heaven so close, it’s but a pace From where ...
( Category: Renaissance January 17,2020 )
The House of the Prophet by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | | Author:Louis Auchincloss

Roger Cutter (3) I HAD KNOWN Felix Leitner since my childhood, but it was at Seal Cove, Maine, in my twenty-second year that we first became friends. Seal Cove contained ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 17,2020 )
J. R. R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter
epub |eng | 1982-01-16 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter [Carpenter, Humphrey]

Lewis and Tolkien continued to see much of each other. Tolkien read aloud to Lewis from The Silmarillion, and Lewis urged him to press on and finish writing it. Tolkien ...
( Category: European January 17,2020 )
The Case of the Spellbound Child by Mercedes Lackey
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Mercedes Lackey

11 ELLIE had gotten all of the beds cleaned and restuffed with clean straw; she’d washed what passed for blankets, and everyone’s clothing, at least once. Odd, she had never ...
( Category: Victorian January 16,2020 )
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by Michael Cox
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]

'Certainly not, dearest,' I said soothingly. 'I wish I could solve the mystery,' he pursued, more excitedly; 'I would make somebody suffer for it! One's peace destroyed, and people terrified, ...
( Category: European January 16,2020 )
Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
epub |eng | 2001-02-03 | Author:Judith Thurman [Judith Thurman]

CHAPTER 28 The perversity necessary to satiate an adolescent lover doesn’t devastate a woman sufficiently; on the contrary. Giving becomes a kind of neurosis, of ferocity, an egotistical frenzy. —COLETTE, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 13,2020 )
C. S. Lewis by James Como
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:James Como

That Hideous Strength Lewis seems always to have had some piece of writing in the works. This was true of The Chronicles, his autobiography, a narrative poem, and of Abolition ...
( Category: Modern January 8,2020 )
Tim by Colleen Mccullough
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Colleen Mccullough [Mccullough, Colleen]

Nineteen Tim sat silently in the car all the way to Artarmon. He had not slept in her Sydney house very often, and the room he always occupied there did ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 4,2020 )
Shostakovich by Elizabeth Wilson
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Wilson [Elizabeth Wilson]

With Stalin’s death in March 1953, I noticed Dmitri Dmitriyevich’s sense of relief. Although the enormous pressure that weighed on him throughout life was somewhat eased, he felt no sense ...
( Category: Classical January 2,2020 )
Habibi by Craig Thompson
mobi |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Craig Thompson [Thompson, Craig]

( Category: Renaissance January 2,2020 )
A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien by David Day
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-16 | Author:David Day [Day, David]

Noldor Elves NORSE MYTHOLOGY The myths and legends of the Norse people found in a rich body of medieval texts, principally such Old Norse poems as the Poetic Edda and ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )
Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Jenny Hartley

Coming to the city The young man coming to the city to seek his fortune is an old story. Dickens told it himself many times, with its stages of initiation, ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )

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