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Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

Slow footsteps and slapping sounds came from amidships; the sailors were beginning to scour the deck. He started as if caught in a guilty act, and his strained face looked ...
( Category: Short Stories May 26,2014 )
Ethics (Translated & Annotated) by Baruch Spinoza
epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Baruch Spinoza [Spinoza, Baruch]

The emotion called a passive experience is a confused idea whereby the mind affirms a greater or lesser force of existence of its body, or part of its body, than ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 19,2014 )
The Athenian Constitution (Classics) by Aristotle
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Aristotle

P THE ATHLOTHETAE (Chapter 60) Having completed his survey of officials appointed annually by lot our author turns to officials of other kinds, in this chapter a board which was ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 16,2014 )
I Am the Cheese (Laurel-Leaf Library) by Cormier Robert
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Cormier, Robert [Cormier, Robert]

T: Everything A: Well, almost everything. That night I told you about—the first memory—the bus. I was right about that, my father said. We were running away. Going to a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 16,2014 )
On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

14. The Mantineans, then, were the first to appeal to him. And when he crept into the city by night, they expelled the Achaean garrison with his help, and then ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 13,2014 )
Moment of True Feeling by Peter Handke
epub |eng | 1977-06-01 | Author:Peter Handke [Handke, Peter]

Washed and dressed again, Keuschnig asked the writer to go for a walk with him. The women had disappeared into the back room, and could no longer be heard. “As ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory May 11,2014 )
New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Toibin
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Colm Toibin

1 It seemed beyond belief that our neighbour Seamus Doyle, who tended roses, and his wife, Gretta, who went to Mass every day, had once led a revolution, that he ...
( Category: General May 11,2014 )
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Peter Hoeg

?5 The rib bones are the closed ellipses of the planets, with their focus in the sternum, the breastbone, the white center of the photograph. The lungs are the gray ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime May 7,2014 )
The King's Curse by Gregory Philippa
epub, mobi |eng, eng | | Author:Gregory,Philippa

Greenwich Palace, London, Christmas 1529 Dressed in her best gown, wrapped in furs, I take Princess Mary by royal barge down the river to Greenwich for Christmas and we go ...
( Category: Renaissance May 3,2014 )
The Memorabilia by Xenophon
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

(5) See Wesley's anthem, Eccles. xliv. 1, "Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." Per. All that you say, Socrates, is most true, but do ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 28,2014 )
A Blake Dictionary by Damon S. Foster Eaves Morris
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris [Damon, S. Foster, Eaves, Morris]

M * * * MACHPELAH was a double-chambered cave in western Hebron, which Abraham bought for a family burial place. Ragan’s web of war drops “with crimson gore with the ...
( Category: European April 24,2014 )
The Belgariad: Book 04 - Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:David Eddings

Chapter Fourteen It was the first day of spring, and King Belgarion of Riva was terribly nervous. He had watched the approach of Princess Ce’Nedra’s sixteenth birthday with a steadily ...
( Category: Epic April 21,2014 )
Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats by Keats John
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Keats, John [Keats, John]

To Chatterton O CHATTERTON! how very sad thy fate! Dear child of sorrow–son of misery! How soon the film of death obscured that eye, Whence Genius wildly flashed, and high ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2014 )
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward W. Said
epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Edward W. Said [Edward W. Said]

27 Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors pas un bout de ce monde qui ne porte mon empreinte digitale et mon calcanéum sur le dos des gratte-ciel et ma crasse dans ...
( Category: History & Theory April 17,2014 )
Stamboul Train by Graham Greene
epub, mobi |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Graham Greene [Greene, Graham]

PART FOUR Subotica 1 THE telegraph receiving set in the station-master’s office at Subotica flickered; dots and dashes were spilt into the empty room. Through the open door Lukitch, the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 15,2014 )

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