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Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women’s College by Mary Dockray-Miller
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Dockray-Miller

( Category: Medieval March 12,2020 )
Posthumous Keats by Stanley Plumly
epub |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Stanley Plumly

One’s attention is drawn back to the healer’s mortal hand in that moment when Keats is telling Brown why he thinks he cannot pursue surgery because of “apprehension of every ...
( Category: Authors March 12,2020 )
U and I: A True Story by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nicholson Baker

7 Mean? Yes, he is mean. He seems at times to admire meanness — I’m thinking, for instance, of that puzzling sentence of his that always appears on Anne Tyler ...
( Category: Medieval March 12,2020 )
The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature by Miller D. Quentin
epub |eng | | Author:Miller, D. Quentin

Ellison: A Voice from Underground Native Son was the first novel by an African American to be selected by the once influential Book of the Month Club. Twelve years after ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
Three Lives by Matuschek Oliver Blunden Allan
epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Matuschek, Oliver, Blunden, Allan [Oliver Matuschek]

A few months later Zweig was on a reading tour in Germany—to “sing for his supper”, as he himself liked to put it—and he had left home in the best ...
( Category: European March 12,2020 )
Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse by DeLong Anne;
epub |eng | | Author:DeLong, Anne;

Robinson’s Galvanic Maniacs Like the creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, figures with flashing eyes and floating hair appear frequently in Robinson’s poetry as traumatized victims of personal loss: the abandoned ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 12,2020 )
THE MODERN JEWISH CANON by RUTH R. WISSE
epub |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:RUTH R. WISSE

The Yiddish and Hebrew Diarists Yiddish was the European language most directly affected by Nazi rule. Although linguistic assimilation had become the norm by the 1930s among Jews in western ...
( Category: Jewish March 11,2020 )
The Ferrante Letters by Sarah Chihaya;Merve Emre;Katherine Hill;Jill Richards;
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Sarah Chihaya;Merve Emre;Katherine Hill;Jill Richards;

8. I had a drink with my friend Rebecca last night, one of the veteran Lila-Lenùs of my life. I am, I think, very prone to this kind of deep-cut ...
( Category: European March 11,2020 )
Note Found in a Bottle by Susan Cheever
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Cheever

One afternoon in the morgue of the newspaper, a dusty interior room with bound volumes on sagging shelves, where I was reading through the clips on the Rockefellers and the ...
( Category: Women March 11,2020 )
The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Michael Malay
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Malay

The concept is imaginatively resonant: Weber’s cage symbolises, in a single image, something of the lived experience of modern capitalism—an ‘irresistible’ system that binds individuals to a particular mode of ...
( Category: Modern March 11,2020 )
Mark Twain: A Biography: Volume 1: 1835 - 1885 by Albert Bigelow Paine
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Albert Bigelow Paine [Paine, Albert Bigelow]

The work so promptly begun made little progress. Hard days of illness and sorrow followed, and it was not until September that it was really under way. His natural enthusiasm ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 11,2020 )
The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
epub |eng | 2017-03-10 | Author:Friedrich Dürrenmatt [Friedrich Dürrenmatt]

12 But he recovered. After the attack, he felt an unusual sensation: complete freedom from pain. He heated some wine and drank it in small, careful sips. That was all ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 11,2020 )
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Lisa Lowe [Lowe, Lisa]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The conception and cultivation of this work owes so much to the exceptional community of friends and interlocutors who formed the mainstay of my life when I was in ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 11,2020 )
100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Boyd Tonkin [Tonkin, Boyd]

Translation: In his only translation, J A Thompson (1945) achieved a masterpiece of his own, with its springing north-country rhythms, its rainbow spectrum of epic, poetic and colloquial speech. See ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 11,2020 )
On the Nature of the Gods by Cicero
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

XXXIII. But if the art of nature gives life and increase to vegetables, without doubt it supports the earth itself; for, being impregnated with seeds, she produces every kind of ...
( Category: Medieval March 11,2020 )

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