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Limbo by Fox Dan;
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Fox, Dan; [Dan Fox]

¶ The ocean. ‘A dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies ...
( Category: Modern March 27,2019 )
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard & Liza Picard
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Liza Picard & Liza Picard

Pardons The royal power to pardon may evoke a compassionate sovereign embracing his sinful subjects. The reality was rather different. Pardons could bring welcome additions to the sovereign’s treasury. Following ...
( Category: Medieval March 27,2019 )
Writing Animals by Timothy C. Baker
epub |eng | | Author:Timothy C. Baker

Open Narratives: Evie Wyld and Yannick Murphy Both All the Birds, Singing and The Call open with a vivid description of animal death, divorced from any context. Wyld’s novel begins ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2019 )
Bertie and the Tinman by Peter Lovesey
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Peter Lovesey

CHAPTER 13 Yes, thirteen—the unlucky number. When I arrive at a dinner party, I always count the places at the table. If they number thirteen, I call for my coat. ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Bertie and the Seven Bodies by Peter Lovesey
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Peter Lovesey

CHAPTER 13 “Has Bullivant appeared yet?” I asked. Inspector Sweeney gave me a persecuted look, then told me not only that the search for Bullivant had been unproduc­tive, but that ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Bertie and the Crime of Passion by Peter Lovesey
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:Peter Lovesey

CHAPTER 11 After that, I need fortifying,” I told Bernhardt. “Shall we find ourselves some lunch?” This being a fine morning, the first promise of spring, we strolled in the ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen, Henrik]

OSWALD Yes, I know he was. MRS. ALVING It was like a breezy day only to look at him. And what exuberant strength and vitality there was in him! OSWALD ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2019 )
Adaptation and Appropriation by Sanders Julie;
epub |eng | | Author:Sanders, Julie;

Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: ‘Just another adaptation’? During an early period of her life when she is housed and schooled in the Dominican Convent of Saint Innocenzia, the protagonist ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 24,2019 )
The Shipment and Lear by Young Jean Lee
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Young Jean Lee [Lee, Young Jean]

MICHAEL (To Thomasina): Didn’t you say Thomas was your most social and happy friend? THOMASINA: He was! OMAR: He’s definitely my most social and happy friend! THOMASINA: So what do ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 23,2019 )
Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity by Tyrone Tillery
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Tyrone Tillery [Tillery, Tyrone]

McKay was especially outraged that his poems had been published in the same publication that had castigated his Home to Harlem. As Claude vehemently put it, "I particularly resent the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 23,2019 )
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:E. M. Cioran

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: Renaissance March 23,2019 )
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

[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: Essays March 23,2019 )
The Clive Cussler Adventures by Steven Philip Jones
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Steven Philip Jones

Repeating Plot Elements While the prologue for Deep Six is unique in many ways, Cussler is as prone to repeating plot elements in his stories as any writer. Deep Six ...
( Category: United States March 23,2019 )
Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling by Porter Jeff
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Porter, Jeff [Porter, Jeff]

For McWhinnie, BBC’s conventional sound effects would not do. In his reading of Beckett’s radio script, All That Fall’s sound design required a more avant-garde treatment, something that would move ...
( Category: United States March 17,2019 )
Machiavelli in hell by Sebastian De Grazia
epub |eng | 1989-03-13 | Author:Sebastian De Grazia

Moses, perhaps his £freatest hero, is the model of the babe in the bulrushes. CHAPTER lO death of Lorenzo de’ Medici the elder, the Duomo was struck in its highest ...
( Category: Renaissance March 14,2019 )

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