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For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Graham Tarrant

GRIM REAPINGS Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899–1977) Writers have made some bizarre exits from ...
( Category: Poetry August 3,2019 )
Coming, Aphrodite! by Willa Cather
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

A Wagner Matinée I RECEIVED one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined note-paper, and bearing the postmark of a little Nebraska village. This communication, worn and ...
( Category: Victorian August 3,2019 )
Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen
epub |eng | 2016-05-21 | Author:Henrik Ibsen

SCENE 3 Low, treeless hills near the mountain plateau; peaks in the distance. There are long shadows; it is late in the day. PEER [enters, running, and halts on the ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic August 3,2019 )
The Penguin Book of English Verse by Paul Keegan
epub |eng | 2004-09-29 | Author:Paul Keegan [Keegan, Paul]

( Category: Renaissance August 3,2019 )
The Complete Fables by Aesop
epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop [Aesop]

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...
( Category: Medieval August 3,2019 )
The Duchess of Malfi by Frank Kermode
epub |eng | 2010-12-29 | Author:Frank Kermode [Kermode, Frank]

We all, I hope, will take it that are here. EVAD. Nay, then, I’ll give you o’er. DULA. So I will make The ablest man in Rhodes, or his heart ...
( Category: Renaissance August 3,2019 )
Tenants and Cobwebs by Samir Naqqash
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Samir Naqqash

I . . . I’m a living unit called “I.” I’m a pot in which all kinds of humans are subjected to an amazing flexibility. It melts and toys with ...
( Category: Renaissance August 3,2019 )
The Crack-Up by F Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 1964-06-15 | Author:F Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F Scott]

M MOMENTS (WHAT PEOPLE DO) Dogs: We went through a routine, with a lot of false starts, charges, leg and throat holds, rolling over, and escapes. I only barked a ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
epub |eng | | Author:Algernon Blackwood

The Wood of the Dead * One summer, in my wanderings with a knapsack, I was at luncheon in the room of a wayside inn in the western country, when ...
( Category: Occult August 3,2019 )
Guinevere's Tale by Nicole Evelina
epub |eng | 2019-07-01 | Author:Nicole Evelina

Arthur and I decided to hold a pleading day at Corbenic to give the southern people a chance to speak with us without having to traverse the country to reach ...
( Category: Feminist August 3,2019 )
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England by Kathy Lynn Emerson
epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Kathy Lynn Emerson [Emerson, Kathy Lynn]

DOMESTIC COINS angel: A gold coin worth 6s. 8d. until Henry VIII and then 10s. In 1565, England was flooded with Flemish-made counterfeit angels. angelet or half angel: A gold ...
( Category: Renaissance August 2,2019 )
Temptation's Darling by Johanna Lindsey
epub |eng | | Author:Johanna Lindsey

Chapter Twenty-four CONDOLENCES? AND MONTY DIDN’T stick around to explain such an incredible remark. He’d very rudely left the parlor directly after saying it. Layla was alarmed and asked Vanessa, ...
( Category: Renaissance August 2,2019 )
The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature by Peter E Knox & J C McKeown (ed)
epub |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Peter E Knox & J C McKeown (ed) [Knox, Peter E & McKeown, J C]

MEDEA The background to this play is formed by the heroic exploits of Jason in bringing back the Golden Fleece to Greece from the barbarian land of Colchis. He was ...
( Category: Medieval August 2,2019 )
Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno
epub |eng | 2019-06-09 | Author:Kate Zambreno

Wittgenstein’s Mistress It doesn’t seem believable Kate could get laid, said my graduate student. We had been reading David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Is it because, I asked, she is the ...
( Category: Feminist August 2,2019 )
George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles by Timothy Larsen
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Timothy Larsen

For the world is—allow us the homely figure—the human being turned inside out. All that moves in the mind is symbolized in Nature. Or, to use another more philosophical, and ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic August 2,2019 )

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