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The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
epub |eng | 2019-03-16 | Author:Georges Lefebvre

The Economic Crisis As always in the old France, food shortage was due to a succession of mediocre or clearly inadequate crops. The French of that time ate a great ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 17,2020 )
Mobilities, Literature, Culture by Marian Aguiar & Charlotte Mathieson & Lynne Pearce
epub |eng | | Author:Marian Aguiar & Charlotte Mathieson & Lynne Pearce

With the iterative way of telling of his pastoral life-style, Werther’s rhythm is not only slowed down but also affords a sense of timelessness. Hence, von Petersdorff (2006, 76) argues ...
( Category: Modern March 17,2020 )
Georgics by Virgil
epub |eng | 2008-10-05 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

Georgic IV Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now Take up the tale. Upon this theme no less Look thou, Maecenas, with indulgent eye. A marvellous display of puny ...
( Category: Medieval March 17,2020 )
The Works by Henry Fielding
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Henry Fielding [Fielding, Henry]

THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON. DEDICATION TO THE PUBLIC. YOUR candour is desired on the perusal of the following sheets, as they are the product of a genius ...
( Category: Renaissance March 17,2020 )
Traces Remain by Charles Nicholl
epub |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Charles Nicholl [Nicholl, Charles]

And here is a literary joke: ‘If Petrarch was so madly in love with bay leaves, it’s because they taste so good with sausage and thrush,’ punning on lauro, the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 17,2020 )
Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold.24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero.25 For our ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 17,2020 )
Handbook of Narrative Analysis by Herman Luc; Vervaeck Bart; & Bart Vervaeck
epub |eng | | Author:Herman, Luc; Vervaeck, Bart; & Bart Vervaeck

3.2. Feminist and Queer Narratology Narrative ethics is not the most famous example of the ideology-related developments in contemporary narrative theory. Undoubtedly, feminist narratology can lay claim to that status. ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 17,2020 )
Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth by Donald W. Olson
epub |eng | | Author:Donald W. Olson

Messier’s 1779 Observations: Comet and Nebulae Many astronomers are aware that Charles Messier’s main interest was the search for comets and that his catalog listed faint clouds that could be ...
( Category: Modern March 16,2020 )
The True Story of My Life by Hans Christian Andersen
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Hans Christian Andersen

CHAPTER VII. In the summer of 1842, I wrote a little piece for the summer theatre, called, "The Bird in the Pear-tree," in which several scenes were acted up in ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 16,2020 )
Radical Poetry by Eduardo Ledesma
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Eduardo Ledesma

tren en marcha tttttttttttttttttrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrren en marcha marchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchchcha This apparently “simple” early poem displays all the characteristic elements of Uribe’s later works: a will to motion, as the train “caboose” both ...
( Category: Poetry March 16,2020 )
In Search of Lost Time [Volumes 1 to 7] by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

Cities of the Plain [Volume 4] Sodome et Gomorrhe (1927) Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930) Introduction La femme aura Gomorrhe et l’homme aura Sodome. Alfred de Vigny. The ...
( Category: French March 16,2020 )
The Friendly Jane Austen by Natalie Tyler
epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Tyler

* * * BARBARA PYM ON HER VISIT TO CHAWTON 11 August, 1969. Visit to Jane Austen’s house. . . . I put my hand down on Jane’s desk and ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 16,2020 )
A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser by Miriam Nichols
epub |eng | | Author:Miriam Nichols

Pacific Nation: Poetry and Politics Blaser would face the political hubbub of his first years at SFU—for him, a question of the relationship between poetry and politics—in his own little ...
( Category: Renaissance March 16,2020 )
Interpreting Plato Socratically by J. Angelo Corlett
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:J. Angelo Corlett

References Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Nicholas D. Smith. 1994. Plato’s Socrates. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ———. 2010. Socratic moral psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cherniss, Harold. 1945. The riddle of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 16,2020 )
No More Words by Reeve Lindbergh
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Reeve Lindbergh

7 July 2000 I thought that when one grew up nothing unpleasant would happen. Apparently nothing hurt “grown-ups.” My mother didn’t kick or scream in the dentist’s chair, nor did ...
( Category: Authors March 16,2020 )

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