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Baltasar and Blimunda (Harvest Book) by Saramago José
azw3 |eng | 1998-10-15 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

WE ARE LIVING in an age where a nun, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, is likely to encounter the Child Jesus in the cloister, ...
( Category: Renaissance June 26,2019 )
The Double by Saramago José
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-10-02 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

MAY I SPEAK TO SENHOR DANIEL SANTA-CLARA, ASKED Tertuliano Máximo Afonso when the man’s wife answered, You’re the same person, I presume, who phoned the other day, I recognize your ...
( Category: Renaissance June 26,2019 )
Why We Read Fiction by Lisa Zunshine
epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Lisa Zunshine [Zunshine, Lisa]

FIGURE 2. Clarissa dying. Reproduced courtesy of McMaster University Library. (a) Mind-Games in Clarissa Clarissa is a story of two brilliant young people, Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace, fatally misreading ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 25,2019 )
Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub |swe | 2005-09-06 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

10 – I shall be asked why I have really narrated all these little things which according to the traditional judgement are matters of indifference: it will be said that ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 25,2019 )
The Book of Lists by Amy Wallace Del Howison & Scott Bradley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Amy Wallace, Del Howison & Scott Bradley [Amy Wallace, Del Howison & Bradley, Scott]

the power of that smile. (Note: Spielberg tried to use the same Scatman modalities in “Kick the Can,” his installment in Twilight Zone: The Movie. 200 THE BOOK OF LIS ...
( Category: Shows June 24,2019 )
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies: The Stage Adaptation by Mike Poulton
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Mike Poulton [Poulton, Mike]

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...
( Category: Renaissance June 24,2019 )
The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair
epub |eng | | Author:Upton Sinclair

Deutschland Ueber Alles * As a result of Luther's treason to humanity, his church became the state church of Prussia, and Bible-worship and Devil-terror played their part, along with the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 22,2019 )
The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950 by Various & William Rees
epub |fra | 1992-01-01 | Author:Various & William Rees [Various & Rees, William]

A Renewal of Lyricism French poetry at the turn of the century reacted in a number of ways against the aesthetic refinements of Symbolism. The most radical and far-reaching changes ...
( Category: Renaissance June 22,2019 )
Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by David Seed
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:David Seed [Seed, David]

The golden age of utopias From the late 19th century up to the outbreak of the First World War, over 200 utopias were published, the majority of which, with a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 22,2019 )
On Sparta by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2008-11-20 | Author:Plutarch

14. The Mantineans, then, were the first to appeal to him. And when he crept into the city by night, they expelled the Achaean garrison with his help, and then ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 21,2019 )
The Erotic Poems by Ovid
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Ovid

433–6 Again, the request for a loan without intention of repayment recalls the advice given by Dipsas at Am 1.8.101–2. The word used here (435) to describe these gold-diggers is ...
( Category: Love Poems June 21,2019 )
The American Shore by Delany Samuel R. Cheney Matthew
epub |eng | 2014-06-21 | Author:Delany, Samuel R., Cheney, Matthew

118) “Why not?” asked Tancred, who could never resist disagreeing. “They came from every different state and every branch of the service. It has to be complete or the people ...
( Category: Medieval June 21,2019 )
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2019 )
Extreme States by Coco d'Hont
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Coco d'Hont

Half-Formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic Identities Beloved demonstrates that transgression does not only cross existing boundaries, such as the one between past and present, to problematize power relationships that ...
( Category: United States June 16,2019 )
An Asimov Companion by Donald E. Palumbo
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Donald E. Palumbo

Little Miss (A.D. 2120–2210)—Known to Andrew Martin as Little Miss, Amanda “Mandy” Laura Martin Charney was the younger of Gerald Martin’s two daughters, the mother of George Charney, and the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 12,2019 )

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