Movements & Periods
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Holroyd [Holroyd, Michael]

15 Legal and Military My first half-dozen years after leaving Eton were strikingly indecisive. They began with two minor operations. The first – to correct some complications in my right ...
( Category: Great Britain November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Ann Beattie [Beattie, Ann]

Prophetic Moments Princess Diana’s sisters, upon learning of her reservations about marrying Prince Charles: “Too late, Duch, your face is on the tea towels.” Mrs. Nixon’s best friend, Helene Drown, ...
( Category: Women November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:James Shapiro [James Shapiro]

O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from ...
( Category: Shakespeare November 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Beverley Nichols

Then the miracle happened. From the other side of the door there had come a tiny mew. I could not believe it. But there it was again, faint but unmistakable, ...
( Category: By Region November 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-11 | Author:Arthur Miller

THE PRICE A PLAY 1968 Characters VICTOR FRANZ ESTHER FRANZ GREGORY SOLOMON WALTER FRANZ ACT ONE Today. New York. Two windows are seen at the back of the stage. Daylight ...
( Category: Drama November 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Jeffrey Meyers [Meyers, Jeffrey]

THIRTEEN THE EVOLUTION OF NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR In this essay I argued forcefully against the prevailing critical opinion that Nineteen Eighty-Four is a “nightmare vision” of a totalitarian future. I believe, ...
( Category: European November 8,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-08-15 | Author:Michael Dirda

Charlottesville A few weeks back I received, from out of the blue, an email from the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE). This isn’t, I should point out, a professional organization ...
( Category: General November 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Dirda

Charlottesville A few weeks back I received, from out of the blue, an email from the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE). This isn’t, I should point out, a professional organization ...
( Category: General November 5,2015 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

V. Horatio Sparkins ‘Indeed, my love, he paid Teresa very great attention on the last assembly night,’ said Mrs. Malderton, addressing her spouse, who, after the fatigues of the day ...
( Category: General November 4,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-04-11 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

EDINBURGH, MARCH, 26, 1858. [On the above date Mr. Dickens gave a reading of his Christmas Carol in the Music Hall, before the members and subscribers of the Philosophical Institution. ...
( Category: Linguistics November 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-19 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

My Father’s Trees in Dehra Our trees still grow in Dehra. This is one part of the world where trees are a match for man. An old peepul may be ...
( Category: Contemporary November 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:James Shapiro [Shapiro, James]

11 THE KING’S EVIL The first reports of the assassination of King James reached London as dawn broke on Saturday, March 22. According to the Venetian ambassador, as word spread ...
( Category: European November 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-30 | Author:Leo Damrosch

Apocalypse In Milton and Jerusalem, the culminating apocalypse—the breakthrough into Eternity when Albion awakens—is only briefly described, but in The Four Zoas it is described at great length. The chronology ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Undine

A few footsteps more, and they were upon open ground. The imperial city lay bright before them, and the evening sun, which gilded its towers, kindly dried the garments of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 28,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-01 | Author:Jonathan Bate [Bate, Jonathan]

In the summer of 1978, a year after the appearance of Gaudete, a black-bound volume of poems called Orts was published by Olwyn’s Rainbow Press, in an edition of 200 ...
( Category: Poetry October 13,2015 )