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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature by Ayn Rand
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 1975-01-15 | Author:Ayn Rand

(May-July 1969) 7. The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age PRIOR to the nineteenth century, literature presented man as a helpless being whose life and actions were determined by forces beyond ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 11,2015 )
Candide, Or, Optimism by Voltaire
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Voltaire

XIX What happened to them at Surinam,ay and how Candide got to know Martin Our travellers’ first day’s journey was very pleasant; they were elated with the prospect of possessing ...
( Category: French June 11,2015 )
Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Ode Ogede
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Ode Ogede

Things Fall Apart CHAPTER TWELVE On the following morning the entire neighbourhood wore a festive air because Okonkwo's friend, Obierika, was celebrating his daughter's uri. It was the day on ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 11,2015 )
Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
epub |eng | 2012-08-10 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

A Terrible Vengeance I There was a bustle and an uproar in a quarter of Kiev: Gorobets, Captain of the Cossacks, was celebrating his son’s wedding. A great many people ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 9,2015 )
Mr Ma and Son by Lao She
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Lao She

XII SINCE HE’D recovered from his illness, Mr Ma had been very keen to please others. Breakfast over, he’d go into the backyard and water the flowers, remove caterpillars and ...
( Category: Historical June 8,2015 )
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

The newspaperman was angry at this and thought he would call the desk and have them both thrown out of the hotel, and he would have too if they had ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 6,2015 )
By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Hemingway Ernest
epub |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

There She Breaches! OR Moby Dick off the Morro Esquire • MAY, 1936 IT was a clear, cool day in October and we were drifting about three miles off Cabañas ...
( Category: Essays June 6,2015 )
The Rhetoric of Fiction by Booth Wayne C
epub |eng | 2010-05-15 | Author:Booth, Wayne C. [Booth, Wayne C.]

“If anything I have said seems sharp or gossipy, remember that it is Folly and a woman who has spoken.” —ERASMUS “I had got my Lady into such a terror ...
( Category: Fiction June 6,2015 )
Where I'm Reading From by Tim Parks
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Tim Parks

DOES MONEY MAKE US WRITE BETTER? LET’S TALK ABOUT money. In his history of world art, E. H. Gombrich mentions a Renaissance artist whose uneven work was a puzzle, until ...
( Category: General June 4,2015 )
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (Biography and Autobiography) by Stephen Parker
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Stephen Parker

Brecht questioned the reality of the regime’s apparent strength: On the whole the ruling apparatus is consolidating itself, growing stronger but more isolated, losing its metastases in the ‘people’, becoming ...
( Category: German June 2,2015 )
Men and Women
mobi |eng | | Author:Browning, Robert [Browning, Robert]

Thyrsus: the ivy-coiled staffer spear stuck in a pine-cone, symbol of Bacchic orgy. These, with the other Pagan tokens and pictures, mingle oddly but significantly with the references to the ...
( Category: General May 30,2015 )
Philebus
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Philebus by Plato * * * by Plato A free ebook from http://manybooks.net/ Philebus Table of Contents
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 30,2015 )
Nature of Things
mobi |eng | | Author:Lucretius,

* * * End of Project Gutenberg Etext of Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius * * * Nature of Things from http://manybooks.net/ Nature of Things Table of Contents
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 30,2015 )
When Day is Done
mobi |eng | | Author:Guest, Edgar A. [Guest, Edgar A.]

Produced by Ted Garvin, Ginny Brewer and PG Distributed Proofreaders Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions ...
( Category: State & Local May 30,2015 )
Sophist
mobi |eng | | Author:Plato,

* * * SOPHIST by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Theodorus, Theaetetus, Socrates. An Eleatic Stranger, whom Theodorus and Theaetetus bring with them. The younger Socrates, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 30,2015 )

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