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The Perfect Wagnerite by George Bernard Shaw
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS PROLOGUE Die Gottrerdammerung begins with an elaborate prologue. The three Norns sit in the night on Brynhild's mountain top spinning their thread ...
( Category: Classical March 25,2014 )
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * ACT V High noon. Festival and military pageant on the esplanade before the palace. In the east harbor Caesar's galley, so gorgeously decorated that it seems to ...
( Category: Drama March 25,2014 )
Hoeg, Peter by Smilla's Sense of Snow
epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Smilla's Sense of Snow [Snow, Smilla's Sense of]

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: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
Of Love and Evil by Rice Anne
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Rice, Anne [Rice, Anne]

CHAPTER NINE I STOPPED. I FOUND MYSELF IN A NARROW MUDDY LANE, overcome with the stench of the filth flowing into the gutters. I thought again of trying to reach ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Passionate Minds by David Bodanis
epub |eng | 2006-03-24 | Author:David Bodanis [Bodanis, David]

17 Frederick FLANDERS AND PRUSSIA, 1740–1741 In June 1740 Frederick's father did finally die, which meant that the young, timid Frederick was now king, and Voltaire could begin his plan. ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

MISCELLANY: PORNOGRAPHY, PICASSO, AND APHORISMS I can see some reasonably deep moral questions about whether people should be free to create hard-core pornography. I’d vote yes, but let’s not assume ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
A Christmas Hope by Anne Perry
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

She hated doing it. She was actually trembling as she stood at the front door and reached for the brass-headed bell pull, but she could not afford to wait any ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Isherwood, Christopher]

TEN On March 26, 1934, Christopher left London to rejoin Heinz in Amsterdam. Thus he symbolically rejected Kathleen’s England. But this short journey was to be only the first phase ...
( Category: Literary Criticism March 25,2014 )
new poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Tadeusz Rozewicz

how do you know they’re black maybe they’re square or red or golden that’s it! golden thoughts golden flakes in a dead sea of tired language those from Gogol for ...
( Category: Surrealism March 25,2014 )
Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey by Lori Perkins
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lori Perkins [PERKINS, LORI]

DEBRA HYDE has four erotic novels and dozens of erotic short stories to her publishing credits. Her lesbian BDSM novel, Story of L, won the 2011 Lambda Literary Award for ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 25,2014 )
The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas Lynch

That is how she turned it into prayer—the “irregularity,” the cancer, the tumor that moved from her remaining lung up her esophagus, leapt to her spinal cord, and then made ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper by Begg Paul & Bennett John
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Begg, Paul & Bennett, John [Begg, Paul]

Though not named in print on this occasion, the ‘queen’s physician’ in 1888 was Sir William Gull. Apparently, on the evening of the day he lunched with Stowell Wilson met ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2014 )
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

THE WILD CAME TO THE AID OF THE WILD My manager during the war had been buying up oxen for the army. He told me that he had then, down ...
( Category: Kenya March 25,2014 )
Papa Hemingway by A. E. Hotchner
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:A. E. Hotchner [Hotchner, A. E.]

Chapter Nine Key West ♦ 1955 On the morning of July 3rd I flew to Miami, where I caught the small afternoon plane to Key West and took a taxi ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Early Writings (Pound, Ezra) by POUND EZRA
epub |eng | | Author:POUND, EZRA

III EMOTION AND POESY Obviously, it is not easy to be a great poet. If it were, many more people would have done so. At no period in history has ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )

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