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Dialogues and Letters by Seneca
epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Seneca

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] 1 Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...
( Category: Rome November 23,2014 )
Carpetbaggers by Robbins Harold
epub |eng | 1961-04-06 | Author:Robbins, Harold [Robbins, Harold]

2 I walked through to the small room in the back that Morrissey used as an office. I shut the door behind me and crossing to his desk, took out ...
( Category: Rich & Famous November 23,2014 )
Raiders by Robbins Harold
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-03-06 | Author:Robbins, Harold [Robbins, Harold]

15 1 FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE DEATH OF NEVADA SMITH — that is, in late summer 1953 — Bat flew to Havana. Jonas sent him. It was the first time ...
( Category: Movements & Periods November 23,2014 )
The Analects by Confucius
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-12 | Author:Confucius

11.18 Chai [Zigao] is simpleminded; Can [Zeng Can, or Zengzi] is slow; Shi [Zizhang] is given to excess; You [Zilu] tends to be unruly. Zigao was a disciple of Confucius, ...
( Category: Asian November 21,2014 )
Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Salman Rushdie [Rushdie, Salman]

AT THE ADELAIDE FESTIVAL The first time I went to an international literary festival, I was bullied into playing centre-forward for the World against Finland (our host nation) in a ...
( Category: General November 21,2014 )
Drawn and Quartered by E. M. Cioran
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:E. M. Cioran

In this dream, I was flattering someone I despise. Waking, a greater self-loathing than if I had really committed such a vileness . . . I feel effective, competent, likely ...
( Category: Modern November 21,2014 )
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran Richard Howard
epub | | 2011-11-20 | Author:E. M. Cioran, Richard Howard [Cioran, E. M.]

STYLE AS RISK INURED to a purely verbal art of thinking, the sophists were the first to occupy themselves with a meditation upon words, their value, propriety, and function in ...
( Category: Religious November 21,2014 )
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

THREE PORTRAITS OF PAINTERS [Cezanne] [Matisse] [Picasso] The portraits of Matisse and Picasso were originally published in the August, 1912, issue of CAMERA WORK and later were reprinted in PORTRAITS ...
( Category: United States November 20,2014 )
The Bible's Cutting Room Floor by Joel M. Hoffman
epub |eng | | Author:Joel M. Hoffman

5 ADAM AND EVE: FALLING DOWN AND GETTING BACK UP Judge a tree by its fruit, not its leaves. —LATIN PROVERB Perhaps surprisingly, their first question wasn’t how to survive. ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation November 20,2014 )
Jacques the Fatalist: And His Master by Denis Diderot
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-07-26 | Author:Denis Diderot

MARQUIS: Succeeded! I could not begin to tell you quite how much. Will you not take pity on me? Shall I not be indebted to you for the joy of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 19,2014 )
The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) by Apuleius
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-05-27 | Author:Apuleius [Apuleius]

BOOK 8 Tragic deaths of Charite and Tlepolemus – their slaves decamp in panic with the animals – misadventures on the way – Lucius sold to the priests of Atargatis ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical November 15,2014 )
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Roxane Gay

A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories We are still in that time in our history when public figures come out of invisible closets largely built by a public insatiable ...
( Category: Feminist November 14,2014 )
Small Island by Andrea Levy
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Andrea Levy [Andrea Levy]

Twenty-seven Queenie Sometimes they were still smouldering like a burnt pie pulled from an oven. The pungent stench of smoke, the dust from rubble steaming off them. Shuffling in or ...
( Category: General November 13,2014 )
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Ann Patchett

Fact vs. Fiction The Miami University of Ohio Convocation Address of 2005 I’VE MADE A point of not giving talks about Truth & Beauty. When it was first published, I ...
( Category: Authors November 13,2014 )
Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Edna O'Brien [O'Brien, Edna]

But there were excitements and surprise visits, as one night in their bedroom, with all their clutter and paraphernalia, painted soldiers laid out on trays for battle yet to be, ...
( Category: Authors November 13,2014 )

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