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How To Do Biography. A Primer by Nigel Hamilton
epub |eng | 2008-05-10 | Author:Nigel Hamilton [Nigel Hamilton]

TEN Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 12,2015 )
The Prince of Minor Writers by Max Beerbohm Phillip Lopate
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm,Phillip Lopate

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European June 12,2015 )
Leonora by Elena Poniatowska
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Elena Poniatowska

33 WHITE RABBITS LEONORA REVOLVES BENEATH THE SKYSCRAPERS, in ecstasy over this new life which makes her seasick with its speed and the force of its energy. How is it ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 12,2015 )
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

CHAPTER XXIII Retaliation The public-house that had been chosen by the leaders of the press-gang in Monkshaven at this time, for their rendezvous (or ‘Randyvowse’, as it was generally pronounced), ...
( Category: Victorian June 12,2015 )
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

CHAPTER FIFTEEN He could not sleep. Thin rays of the moon passed through the cracks in the wall into the hut and fell at various spots on the floor. It ...
( Category: African June 11,2015 )
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-10 | Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]

*[‘On the threshold’. Ed.] *[The bells of the church opposite Newgate Prison, which tolled to announce impending executions. Ed.] †[Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–71), a former watchmaker from Blois who became one ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 11,2015 )
Vathek and Other Stories by William Beckford
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:William Beckford [Beckford, William]

SATIRES II From Modern Novel Writing or the Elegant Enthusiast, by Lady Harriet Malowy [i.e. William Beckford], 2 Vols, London, 1796. The extracts are given the volume number and the ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer
mobi |eng | 2004-09-20 | Author:Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 11,2015 )
Talking about detective fiction by P. D. James
mobi |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:P. D. James

It seems a little unjust to classify Agatha Christie's characters as being on the Punch level. She is more than that. She may draw them in clear outline with none ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective June 11,2015 )
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2010-08-29 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

The next day, I called Tante Zi and explained all that I’d learned about Marius’s return to Haiti. Tante Zi was aware of the funeral home cost, she said; she ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
The Outfit: A Parker Novel by Richard Stark
mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Richard Stark

5 THE SAME DAY and seven hundred miles to the east- Once a month, Eric LaRenne put on a brown suit with $75,000 in cash sewn into the jacket lining ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled June 11,2015 )
The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction on the War by Stewart O'Nan
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-05-15 | Author:Stewart O'Nan

From Dear America Letters Home from Vietnam BERNARD EDELMAN, EDITOR 1985 Sept. 7th [1969] We’re all scared. One can easily see this emotion in the eyes of each individual. One ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 11,2015 )
The Hunter: A Parker Novel by Richard Stark
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Richard Stark

PART THREE 1 FOR PARKER, it had been a cold thin trail from Stegman the cabman in Canarsie to the window of the St David Hotel. The Canarsie thing had ...
( Category: Mystery June 11,2015 )
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-12-14 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

I drove straight to the hotel after renting the car. There was still no sign of my attorney, so I decided to check in on my own - if only ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 11,2015 )
Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel by Lisa Zunshine
mobi |eng | 2006-03-22 | Author:Lisa Zunshine

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: General June 11,2015 )

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