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Homer: A Very Short Introduction by Barbara Graziosi
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Barbara Graziosi

Projects and relationships are interrupted by death. Protesilaus, the first Achaean warrior to disembark on Trojan soil, is killed straight away, and leaves a young wife in a ‘half-built house’. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 30,2019 )
Angels and Insects by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

In the early days of that Autumn, as the activity in the nest died down, the book was brought to its end, and the pages, William’s science, William’s brooding, Miss ...
( Category: Victorian December 25,2019 )
The Matisse Stories by A S Byatt
epub |eng | 1991-12-12 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

Shona McRury has topaz eyes and long, silky brown hair, like a huge ribbon, caught up at the back with a tortoiseshell comb. She wears topaz ear-rings, little spheres on ...
( Category: Surrealism December 25,2019 )
The Getaway Car by Donald E Westlake
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald E]

SIX LUNCH BREAK May’s Famous Tuna Casserole This recipe was Westlake’s contribution to a 1999 collection of recipes by mystery writers, A Taste of Murder. The University of Chicago Press ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective December 17,2019 )
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Ezra Pound [Pound, Ezra]

. . . . . Chaucer is aware of life … parity with Shakespeare. He is informed, and understands the intellectual conquests of Europe … in a way that Will ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics December 17,2019 )
Palace of Books by Roger Grenier
epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Roger Grenier [Grenier, Roger]

Reading Reading, as much if not even more than writing, is an act that belongs to private life. Alone with a book. Perhaps we’ll recognize ourselves in the pages someone ...
( Category: Essays December 16,2019 )
The Knights Hospitaller by Nicholson Helen
epub |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Nicholson, Helen [Nicholson, Helen]

1Abbé René d’Aubert de Vertot, Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem, appellez depuis Chevaliers de Rhodes, et aujourd’hui Chevaliers de Malthe, 5 vols (Paris, 1726), 3, pp. ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic December 12,2019 )
Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Morales
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-08-23 | Author:Helen Morales [Morales, Helen]

Know thyself Freud used classical myths throughout his writings as points of comparison and reference, but only three are discussed at any length: Oedipus, Prometheus, and Medusa. Freud’s interpretation of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 10,2019 )
Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Virginia Woolf

Montaigne Once at Bar-le-Duc Montaigne saw a portrait which René King of Sicily had painted of himself, and asked, ‘Why is it not, in like manner, lawful for everyone to ...
( Category: Feminist December 6,2019 )
African American Literature by Hans A. Ostrom
epub |eng | 2020-11-28 | Author:Hans A. Ostrom

Jones, Gayl (1949–) Fiction writer, poet, playwright, professor, and literary critic. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Gayl Jones was creatively precocious, writing her first short story at the age of seven. ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 29,2019 )
Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini
epub |eng | 2019-10-23 | Author:Nicola Gardini

I didn’t really start reading Ovid until after college. Rather than start right in on the Metamorphoses, I began with the Heroides, a collection of imaginary letters written by mythological ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 29,2019 )
Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg by Michael Schumacher
mobi |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Michael Schumacher

7 There was resistance to the radical changes taking place in New York’s bohemian community, and soon enough Allen found himself battling the political forces that advocated censorship in opposition ...
( Category: Beat Generation November 29,2019 )
Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-06 | Author:Johny Pitts

It seemed to me that the big challenge for Germany, being at the centre of the Eurozone, is to stop using the idea of multiculturalism as and when it sees ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies November 25,2019 )
The Measure of a Man by Marco Malvaldi
epub |eng | 2019-09-13 | Author:Marco Malvaldi [Malvaldi, Marco]

* * * “You see, Your Lordship, the letter is signed by Bencio Serristori, Accerrito Portinari’s associate and my good friend in Florence. It’s clearly dated the twenty-fourth of June ...
( Category: Renaissance November 20,2019 )
The Poetic Edda by Jackson Crawford
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Jackson Crawford [Crawford, Jackson]

{177} Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar Concerning Hjorvarth and Sigerlinn A king was named Hjorvarth; he had four wives. One was named Alfhild, and their son was named Hethin. The second was named ...
( Category: Medieval November 20,2019 )

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