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Robert Louis Stevenson by Frank McLynn
epub |eng | 1994-03-02 | Author:Frank McLynn [Frank McLynn]

Occasionally Louis, as well as his wife, felt the need to escape the isolation of Saranac. In December 1887 he was briefly back in New York City again, and it ...
( Category: Children's Literature July 20,2020 )
The Difference Engine by William & Sterling Gibson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William & Sterling Gibson [Gibson, William & Sterling, Bruce]

The document under analysis is a holographic letter. The letterhead has been removed, and the sheet was hastily folded. There is no date, but holographic analysis establishes that it is ...
( Category: Victorian July 20,2020 )
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Elizabeth L. Eisenstein [Eisenstein]

Fig. 28. The full title page of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs contrasts the fate of Protestants (on the left), who are burned on earth but triumph forever in heaven, with ...
( Category: Renaissance July 20,2020 )
Character by Marjorie Garber
epub |eng | | Author:Marjorie Garber

The phrenologist further notes that the subject’s “Self-Esteem, Combativeness, and Destructiveness” will “be powerfully aided by Language, Wit, and Secretiveness.” Concluding his report, the article’s author, noting that “every reader ...
( Category: Shakespeare July 20,2020 )
Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet by Craig Leon Harold
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Craig, Leon Harold.

The busy life of John Dee (1527–1608) – the most illustrious polymath of the period, but equally famous, and infamous, as a magus – provides an ideal ‘mirror’ wherein to ...
( Category: Shakespeare July 20,2020 )
The Letters of Noel Coward by Barry Day & Noel Coward
epub |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Barry Day & Noel Coward [Day, Barry & Coward, Noel]

All my love Signed Noël • THE WEEKS DRAGGED BY with nothing to show for their efforts that Noël could see. The Germans continued to advance—Norway, Denmark, with Holland and ...
( Category: Letters July 20,2020 )
Richard III: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides) by Annaliese Connolly
mobi |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Annaliese Connolly

Conclusion In overturning the law, Richard reveals to his audience the inadequacy of a legal solution. How can Clarence, Anne and Hastings plead law, how can Buckingham plead the contract ...
( Category: Shakespeare July 20,2020 )
Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama (Frontiers of Narrative) by Jan Alber
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Jan Alber [Alber, Jan]

4.3. Eternal Temporal Loops Other narratives, such as Beckett’s ([1963] 1990) postmodernist play Play, deconstruct the linearity of time by confronting us with circular temporalities. Such a time line “partially ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 20,2020 )
Food in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays by Melitta Weiss Adamson
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 1995-05-02 | Author:Melitta Weiss Adamson

( Category: Medieval July 19,2020 )
“I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms (Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the 20th Century) by
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:

[From notebook 23] Sunday, September 11. Went to the farmer’s market. Bought some bread and milk. Went with A. I. to Mostorg, got a price for my cigarette case (33 ...
( Category: Surrealism July 19,2020 )
The Vindications by Mary Wollstonecraft
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-02-28 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

II Dr Fordyce’s sermons* have long made a part of a young woman’s library – nay, girls at school are allowed to read them – but I should instantly dismiss ...
( Category: Feminist July 19,2020 )
Monsarrat Nicholas by The Cruel Sea
epub |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:The Cruel Sea [Sea, The Cruel]

10 In the cold hour that stretched between two and three a.m., with the moon clouded and the water black and fathomless as sable, a step on the bridge ladder. ...
( Category: Military July 17,2020 )
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Greg McKeown

REMEMBER THAT A CLEAR “NO” CAN BE MORE GRACEFUL THAN A VAGUE OR NONCOMMITTAL “YES” As anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of this situation knows, a ...
( Category: Study Guides July 17,2020 )
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
epub |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:Plautus

A Three-Dollar Day (TRINUMMUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO A THREE-DOLLAR DAY THE Prologue informs us that this play is derived from the Greek of Philemon, and there are reasons for believing ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Plautus

EXEUNT THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER (MILES GLORIOSUS) INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SWAGGERING SOLDIER AN incidental allusion in this play (at line 211) to the imprisonment of a ‘foreign’, i. e. Roman, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 17,2020 )

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