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Tentacles Longer Than Night by Eugene Thacker
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Eugene Thacker [Thacker, Eugene]

What I find most evocative about hair’s almost mythical status is its ambivalent relation to death. Horror films excel at highlighting this ambivalence. For instance, take Antonio Margheriti’s 1964 film ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 12,2015 )
Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Eugene Thacker [Thacker, Eugene]

4 Prayers for Negation What Should Not Be. In the depths of labyrinthine caves, embedded in gigantic rocks, buried in the hottest geothermal vents, and in the cold stellar dust ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 12,2015 )
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Rachel Cusk

Extra Fox There are books about motherhood, as there are about most things. To reach them you must pass nearly everything, the civilised world of fiction and poetry, the suburbs ...
( Category: Motherhood October 11,2015 )
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism by Updike John
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...
( Category: General October 11,2015 )
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Valerie Fitzgerald

CHAPTER 11 We descended another staircase, traversed several cavernous corridors and at last Mr Khan opened a door and ushered us into our apartment, a suite of three lofty rooms, ...
( Category: Family Saga October 11,2015 )
To the Islands by Randolph Stow
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Randolph Stow [Stow, Randolph]

6 Heriot woke to the harsh outcry of crows, it was a crow his eyes saw first as they opened unwillingly on the light of day. A shining bird, it ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 11,2015 )
Odd Jobs by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...
( Category: General October 11,2015 )
Rupert Brooke by Nigel Jones
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Nigel Jones

I’ve been in love with Ka: & I am in love with her in a way, & I shall be, I suppose; & I know her better than anyone does. ...
( Category: Authors October 10,2015 )
The Lost Landscape by Joyce Carol Oates
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

14. A WEEK BEFORE THE recital Cynthia told me suddenly that she’d changed her mind –“Lee Ann is going to accompany me, after all. It just seemed easier.” I was ...
( Category: United States October 9,2015 )
On Grief And Reason: Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) by Joseph Brodsky
mobi |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Joseph Brodsky

IV By standing next to the woman, the man acquires her vantage point. Because he is larger than she, and also because this is his house (as line 23 shows), ...
( Category: Essays October 6,2015 )
The Skepticism of Michel de Montaigne by Manuel Bermúdez Vázquez
epub |eng | | Author:Manuel Bermúdez Vázquez

Many of these skeptical themes were later taken up and Christianized by St. Paul. Paul’s thought was deeply rooted in the traditions of the Old Testament and in the articulation ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 4,2015 )
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Sather Classical Lectures) by Beard Mary
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:Beard, Mary [Beard, Mary]

This is a simple set of connections between laughter and mimicry and mime but one that can enrich our understanding of some famous passages of Roman literature. I have already ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical September 24,2015 )
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Ernst Robert Curtius

L’ amor dell’ apparenza e il suo pensiero. Ed ancor questo quassù si comporta Con men disdegno che quando è posposta La divina scrittura o quando è torta. The word ...
( Category: Medieval September 24,2015 )
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Alain De Botton [Botton, Alain de]

In this view, our notion of reality is at variance with actual reality, because it is so often shaped by inadequate or misleading accounts. Because we are surrounded by clichéd ...
( Category: European September 22,2015 )
Why Call Them Back From Heaven by Clifford D. Simak
epub, mobi |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Clifford D. Simak [Simak, Clifford D.]

Frost nodded. “It figures. Papers tipped off to shut their eyes and rumors started to make it seem that I ran away. Do you think Center knows where I am?” ...
( Category: Movements & Periods September 14,2015 )

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