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A Life in Letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

TO: Maxwell Perkins TLS, 3 pp. Princeton University 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15, 1935. Dear Max: You don’t say anything about “Taps” so I gather it hasn’t caught ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-12 | Author:Anton Chekhov

V ‘I haven’t died,’ Olga thought when she became aware of her surroundings again and the pains had gone. A bright summer’s day looked in through the two wide-open bedroom ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
Cat Town by Sakutaro Hagiwara
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Sakutaro Hagiwara

Surveying the Offing On this beach here not even grasses grow what a lonely beach as I quietly watch the waves like this upon waves waves pile and a white ...
( Category: Surrealism December 27,2014 )
Zibaldone by Leopardi Giacomo
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Leopardi, Giacomo [Leopardi, Giacomo]

This consequence derives from the principle assumed. But since the principle is false, so too the consequence is not true, and this proposition if considered again just by itself, will ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Nicolson

A first-century BC gold coin or “stater” of the Celtic Parisii tribe, near Paris. Some clues to this world of the horse can be found at a timber town, not ...
( Category: Epic December 27,2014 )
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-12-26 | Author:Anton Chekhov

IV On the morning of the Monday in Passion Week, Matvey was in his room and could hear Dashutka saying to Aglaya, ‘A few days ago Uncle Matvey was telling ...
( Category: Short Stories December 27,2014 )
8 by James Phelan
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:James Phelan [Phelan, James]

‘That’s it!’ Sam said. ‘That’s your Gear!’ ‘Gear?’ ‘A cog, part of a machine—part of the machine I was telling you about.’ ‘Oh. Ohl’ ‘That’s why I’m here, Maria, to ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 27,2014 )
Omeros by Derek Walcott
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Derek Walcott [Walcott, Derek]

II Seven Seas asked him to rake the leaves in his yard. The pomme-Arac shed so many the rusted drum filled quickly, and more were falling as he carried each ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
9 by James Phelan
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:James Phelan [Phelan, James]

Outside, Sam walked with Eva, following Lora through the maze of school buildings and then across the sports ovals. He thought they were headed for the boathouse but then they ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 27,2014 )
The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

BOOK TWO ARIZONA BIO-MATERIALS, INC. AS TRIGG BOUGHT MORE AND MORE real estate, he had become paranoid about Mexicans and blacks. He could be rid of his own plasma donor ...
( Category: Native American Studies December 27,2014 )
Theodore Roethke by Jay Parini
epub |eng | 1979-12-26 | Author:Jay Parini

The interior dialectic reappears, as before, when the hero is balked. The questions are the same in essence: how can the hero find gratification for his desires? The responses are ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic December 27,2014 )
The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) by Hearn Michael Patrick
epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Hearn, Michael Patrick [Hearn, Michael Patrick]

X Did Prince Dolor become a great king? Was he, though little more than a boy, “the father of his people,” as all kings ought to be? Did his reign ...
( Category: Movements & Periods December 27,2014 )
The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen by Peter J. Bailey
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Peter J. Bailey

13 Let’s Just Live It Woody Allen in the 1990s HARRY: I’m no good at life. RICHARD: But you write well. HARRY: I write well, but that’s a different story ...
( Category: Movie Directors December 21,2014 )
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Chandra Vikram
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Chandra, Vikram [Chandra, Vikram]

Programmers work doggedly toward correctness, but the sheer size and complexity of software ensures that bugs lurk within. A bug is, of course, a flaw or fault in a program ...
( Category: Authors December 19,2014 )
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-12-13 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Essays December 19,2014 )

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