20th Century
epub |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Jonathan Yardley

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In recent years Americans have become fascinated with their country’s early history, though it’s exceedingly difficult to say precisely why. This is almost entirely at ...
( Category: 20th Century July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michel Houellebecq

And Your Senses, Vectors of Unutterable Derangement “The air of death and desertion was ghoulish, and the smell of fish almost insufferable…” The world stinks. The stench of cadavers and ...
( Category: United States March 28,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Nile Southern

In July 1962, Terry received a fateful assignment from Esquire to interview Stanley Kubrick. Terry had seen Paths of Glory and The Killing in Paris, and Kubrick had just finished ...
( Category: European March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Simon Gikandi

The Modern Drama of Independence A decolonized image of self remains an unfulfilled utopian impulse in Selvon’s early texts; what remains at the end of the quest for the modernist ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:G. L. Hagberg

It is clear that there can be little doubt that the narrator’s characterization of her appearance as “medieval” is justified. He unpacks the term in the context of this description ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan White

WRIGHT’S JOURNEY TO BANDUNG was a fitting prelude to the conference, a whirlwind tour of North Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He flew from Madrid to Rome, and from ...
( Category: Modern August 31,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 7,2019 )
epub, mobi | | 2009-12-12 | Author:Delibes, Miguel [Delibes, Miguel]

X X I I I I El tío Aurelio, el hermano de su madre, les escribió desde Extremadura. El tío Aurelio se marchó a Extremadura porque tenía asma y le ...
( Category: 20th Century June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

That there was something inside Fern I didn’t know. That I didn’t know her in the way I’d always thought I did. That Fern had secrets and not the good ...
( Category: Modern September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Reiner Stach

III. cont. What to do on rainy days. Or possibly on the last day. Art gallery, on the cheap day. Only a few important pictures. But in thorough detail (like ...
( Category: 20th Century April 14,2016 )
mobi |es | 2009-08-04 | Author:Miguel Delibes

XII El tío Aurelio, el hermano de su madre, les escribió desde Extremadura. El tío Aurelio se marchó a Extremadura porque tenía asma y le sentaba mal el clima del ...
( Category: 20th Century November 11,2014 )
epub |deu | 2012-09-30 | Author:Joyce, James [Joyce, James]

GNADE Zwei Herren, die sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt in der Toilette befanden, versuchten ihn aufzurichten, aber er war völlig hilflos. Er lag zusammengekrümmt am Fuß der Treppe, die er hinuntergefallen ...
( Category: European November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1956-01-02 | Author:Samuel Beckett

Enter Boy, timidly. He halts. BOY: Mister Albert . . . ? VLADIMIR: Yes. ESTRAGON: What do you want? VLADIMIR: Approach! The Boy does not move. ESTRAGON: ( forcibly) . ...
( Category: 20th Century March 25,2014 )