Home > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods
Movements & Periods
Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Henrik Ibsen [Ibsen, Henrik]

( Category: Drama February 2,2015 )
Skylight by José Saramago
epub |eng | | Author:José Saramago

22 With the natural vitality of a six-year-old, Henrique made a rapid recovery. And yet, despite the relatively benign nature of the illness, his character seemed to have undergone a ...
( Category: Surrealism January 29,2015 )
Tristana (NYRB Classics) by Galdos Benito Perez
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Galdos, Benito Perez [Galdos, Benito Perez]

*“Discovery reveals that only nothingness grows”: from Leopardi’s poem “Ad Angelo Mai.” †A reference to Francesca di Rimini in Dante’s Inferno, who was damned for her illicit affair with the ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese January 29,2015 )
The Shakespeare Thefts by Eric Rasmussen
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Eric Rasmussen

(The Drayton mentioned here was Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare’s; John Ward, an early vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon, is the source for the anecdotal story of Shakespeare’s death: “Shakespear, Drayton ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Michel de Montaigne

And when we others do foolishly fear a kind of death, when as we have already passed and daily pass so many others. For not only (as Heraclitus said) the ...
( Category: Renaissance January 29,2015 )
The Book of Books
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

Its use and its purpose could appear to have come to an end. The weapon of destruction, of course, was a book, by the leading star in the constellation of ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Jack Kerouac

23 BUT IN THE MORNING (and I’m no Milarepa who could also sit naked in the snow and was seen flying on one occasion) here comes Ron Blake back with ...
( Category: Beat Generation January 29,2015 )
The Queen's Cipher by David Taylor
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:David Taylor [Taylor, David]

ALL SOULS DAY To greet All Souls Day a dry, bitingly cold wind had come in from the east. Slumped in the corner of his coach with watering eyes and ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
Dickens' Women by Miriam Margolyes
epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Miriam Margolyes [Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser]

I love doing that – sexual greed and economic greed in the same scene. Dickens’ most successful females always teetered on the edge of monstrosity. It’s with his grotesques, with ...
( Category: European January 29,2015 )
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

19 The fog lifted enough to reveal the wet tops of the reeds. Here and there the fog turned to dew that dampened the road and the weeds by the ...
( Category: War January 29,2015 )
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
epub |eng | 1967-01-28 | Author:Tom Stoppard

ACT THREE Opens in pitch darkness. Soft sea sounds. After several seconds of nothing, a voice from the dark . .. GUIL : Arc you there? ROS : Where? GUIL ...
( Category: Drama January 29,2015 )
The Science of Shakespeare by Dan Falk
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Falk

WHEN SHALL WE 1,250 MEET AGAIN? The Shakespeare Association of America is to Shakespeare studies what the American Astronomical Society is to astronomy. The SAA* is the world’s largest professional ...
( Category: Shakespeare January 29,2015 )
The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick [Ozick, Cynthia]

Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, the day President John Kennedy was assassinated, I wrote the last words of Trust, my first novel. I had ...
( Category: Essays January 29,2015 )
Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Ivan Turgenev

XXVI TWO days later Marya Dmitrievna, according to her promise, arrived in Vasilyevskoye with all her young people. The little girls at once ran into the garden, while Marya Dmitrievna ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 29,2015 )
French Lover by Nasrin Taslima
epub |eng | 2002-01-22 | Author:Nasrin, Taslima [Nasrin, Taslima]

Thus We Float Away Danielle went back to Paris, after wilting under the dust, pollution, traffic jams and violent honking, and eating snacks off the roadside and falling ill, chatting ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 29,2015 )

First Prev [150] [151] [152] [153] 154 [155] [156] [157] [158] [159] [160] Next Last