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Narration by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

But during the nineteenth century there was no doubt no doubt about it. Prose was the sentence and paragraphing and the use not of nouns but of parts of speech ...
( Category: Fiction November 30,2014 )
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

It was about a week later that Florence Bradley asked us to go with her to see the second performance of the Sacre du Printemps. The russian ballet had just ...
( Category: United States November 30,2014 )
Dante For Beginners by Joe Lee
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Joe Lee [Lee, Joe]

Brutus is the black mouth’s meal and Cassius, the white. To us it may seem strange to have these two almost equal with he who propelled the sacrifice of Christ, ...
( Category: Poetry November 27,2014 )
Poetry: The Basics by Wainwright Jeffrey
mobi |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Wainwright, Jeffrey [Wainwright, Jeffrey]

This first stanza of a burial poem – # 216 in the standard edition, for she gave none of her poems titles – encapsulates the variety of her rhyming. I ...
( Category: Fiction November 24,2014 )
The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Donne
mobi |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:John Donne

A FEVER 9–12 Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, go’st … Petrarch wrote that the death of his mistress had left the earth without a sun, and destroyed the ...
( Category: Love Poems November 24,2014 )
Poems and Prose (Poets) by Hopkins Gerard
mobi |eng | 2008-02-27 | Author:Hopkins, Gerard [Hopkins, Gerard]

SERMON FOR SUNDAY EVENING NOV. 23 1879 AT BEDFORD LEIGH1 – LUKE ii 33. Et erat pater ejus et mater mirantes super his quae dicebantur de illo (text taken at ...
( Category: Renaissance November 24,2014 )
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Robert Browning
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Robert Browning

Apparent Failure ‘We shall soon lose a celebrated building.’ Paris Newspaper I No, for I’ll save it! Seven years since, I passed through Paris, stopped a day To see the ...
( Category: Renaissance November 24,2014 )
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
epub |eng | 1988-11-22 | Author:Alan Bennett [Alan Bennett]

Even with the final dress rehearsals no alarm bells rang. The play was too long, admittedly, and ought to have been cut in rehearsal or, better still, beforehand, which is ...
( Category: Drama November 24,2014 )
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Philip Larkin [Philip Larkin]

And the countryside not caring: The place-names all hazed over With flowering grasses, and fields Shadowing Domesday lines Under wheat’s restless silence; The differently-dressed servants With tiny rooms in huge ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 24,2014 )
Best Food Writing 2013 by Holly Hughes
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Holly Hughes [Hughes, Holly]

TASTING NOTES: HEART By Steven Rinella From Meat Eater In Meat Eater—a sort of prequel to his 2007 book A Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine–outdoors writer and TV host Steven ...
( Category: Essays November 24,2014 )
Best Food Writing 2011 by Holly Hughes
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Holly Hughes

Virtual Grocery Store Across the state line in Kansas City, Kan., Nathan Barnes is tired of waiting for the grocery stores to stake out a corner of his neighborhood, where ...
( Category: Essays November 24,2014 )
Geek Sublime by Vikram Chandra
epub |eng | 2014-11-23 | Author:Vikram Chandra

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 November 24,2014 )
Excavation: A Memoir by Ortiz Wendy C
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Ortiz, Wendy C. [Ortiz, Wendy C.]

LATE FALL 1987 One Saturday of many I arrived at his house. I timidly peered through the dusty screen. “Come on in!” I opened the screen door and saw him. ...
( Category: Movements & Periods November 23,2014 )
11 by James Phelan
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:James Phelan [Phelan, James]

21 EVA ‘It’s true, Sam,’ Eva said, the phone on the table between her, Gabriella, Jedi, Lora and the Professor. ‘This is what the last 13 are destined to do. ...
( Category: Political November 23,2014 )
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Seneca

CHORUS Is it the truth, or but an idle tale To give false comfort to our fears, That the soul lives on when the body is laid to rest, When ...
( Category: Drama November 23,2014 )

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