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A Sleep and a Forgetting by William Dean Howells
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:William Dean Howells [Howells, William Dean]

VI The caprice of a climate which vaunted itself perpetual summer was a godsend to all the strangers strong enough to bear it without suffering. For the sick an indoor ...
( Category: Surrealism November 20,2019 )
The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Lee M Hollander
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lee M Hollander [Hollander, Lee M]

13. OF EARL STRÚT-HAROLD AND VÉSETI AND THEIR SONS At that time there ruled in the island of Zealand an earl by the name of Harold. He was nicknamed Strút-Harold,35 ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 20,2019 )
Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Diane Samuels [Samuels, Diane]

ACT TWO Scene One The room is dim. The air is stale and smoke-filled. EVELYN’s clothes and hair are unkempt. Beside her is an ashtray containing a large number of ...
( Category: Playwriting November 20,2019 )
The Monk (Oxford World's Classics) by Matthew Lewis
epub |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Matthew Lewis [Lewis, Matthew]

Ah! Happy Swain! Such bliss to me denying, Fortune thy lot with envy bids me view; Me, who from home and Spain an Exile flying, Bid all I value, all ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 20,2019 )
Graham Greene by Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur

GRAHAM GREENE was born in 1904 in Berkhamsted, the son of a school headmaster and part of the family that owned the Greene King brewery empire. Quickly discovering his love ...
( Category: Modern November 20,2019 )
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Nicola Gardini

* * * […] quique a me morte revelli heu sola poteras, poteris nec morte revelli. (IV.152–53) […] and you, whom death alone could steal from me, you can be ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 18,2019 )
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Lobo Antunes António
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Lobo Antunes, António [Lobo Antunes, António]

13 At Christmastime the supply column brought four women stuck between the crates of the last Mercedes, not very young, not very attractive, not very clean of course, with soldiers’ ...
( Category: European November 14,2019 )
Uncommon Tongues by Nicholson Catherine;
epub |eng | 2013-11-09 | Author:Nicholson, Catherine;

The Unrestful Shepherd Spenser’s pastoral narrative performs a similarly complex rereading of the literary significance of exile. For most sixteenth-century English rhetorical and poetic theorists, exile functions as a metaphor ...
( Category: Renaissance November 10,2019 )
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner & James B. Meriwether (ed)
mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:William Faulkner & James B. Meriwether (ed)

[University of Virginia Magazine, Spring 1958; collected in Faulkner in the University, edited by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, University of Virginia Press, 1959. The text printed here ...
( Category: Letters November 7,2019 )
The Poetry of Sappho by Powell Jim; Powell Jim;
epub |eng | 2007-11-04 | Author:Powell, Jim; Powell, Jim;

As a hyacinth in the mountains that men shepherding tread underfoot, and to the ground its flower, all purple [ [LP 105c] As a poet of Lesbos surpasses foreigners [LP ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 5,2019 )
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-08-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]

Composition………by Jackie Duluoz.…. 6-B “Now up yonder in Suskahooty,” said Dead Eye Dick—no, I exaggerate, his name was Black Dan—“up yonder in Saskahoty,” said Dead Eye Dick Black Dan, “we ...
( Category: Beat Generation November 1,2019 )
Book of Haikus (Penguin Poets) by Jack Kerouac
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]

You’d be surprised how little I knew Even up to yesterday Two Japanese boys singing Inky Dinky Parly Voo Take up a cup of water from the ocean And there ...
( Category: Surrealism November 1,2019 )
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
epub |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Jack Kerouac

I always rush up and take off ninety miles an hour for the nearest whore house, hor hor hor!” This was his “laugh” laugh---when he wasn’t really laughing. “Say Jack, ...
( Category: Beat Generation November 1,2019 )
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) 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 October 26,2019 )
Without feathers by Allen Woody 1935-
epub |eng | 1983-10-25 | Author:Allen, Woody, 1935-

ally fine veal cordon bleu which the masses found was too appealing to turn down, but such gourmet dishes are rare. The problem with the hunger strike is that after ...
( Category: Parodies October 26,2019 )

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