mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Ferber, Michael [Ferber, Michael]

In France, Alfred de Musset indulges in a similar nostalgia: ‘O Greece! … / / I am a citizen of your ancient ages; / My soul with the bee strays ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Jamie McGuire [McGuire, Jamie]

THOMAS TOSSED A THICK STACK OF PAPERS onto my desk, his jaw dancing under his skin. He paced back and forth, breathing through his nose. “What is this?” “Read it,” ...

epub |eng | 1980-08-28 | Author:Wolfram von Eschenbach [Eschenbach, Wolfram von]

Chapter 10 WE are approaching strange tales such as can empty us of joy and bring high spirits: they have to do with both. The term of one year was ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:George Beahm

63 MICHAEL COLLINGS ON FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT 1990 As with Different Seasons, which shares the overriding time metaphor both in its title and in the arrangement of its stories, each ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-30 | Author:Leo Damrosch

Apocalypse In Milton and Jerusalem, the culminating apocalypse—the breakthrough into Eternity when Albion awakens—is only briefly described, but in The Four Zoas it is described at great length. The chronology ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Eugene Thacker [Thacker, Eugene]

What I find most evocative about hair’s almost mythical status is its ambivalent relation to death. Horror films excel at highlighting this ambivalence. For instance, take Antonio Margheriti’s 1964 film ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-24 | Author:Eugene Thacker [Thacker, Eugene]

4 Prayers for Negation What Should Not Be. In the depths of labyrinthine caves, embedded in gigantic rocks, buried in the hottest geothermal vents, and in the cold stellar dust ...

epub |eng | 1878-12-31 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

“God was watching over me then,” Mitya used to say afterwards: just at that time, the sick Grigory Vasilievich woke up on his bed. Towards evening of that day he ...

epub |eng | 2008-08-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

5 A SUDDEN DECISION FENYA and her grandmother were sitting in the kitchen together, and were about to go to bed. Relying on Nazar Ivanovich, they had not bothered to ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Elena Poniatowska

33 WHITE RABBITS LEONORA REVOLVES BENEATH THE SKYSCRAPERS, in ecstasy over this new life which makes her seasick with its speed and the force of its energy. How is it ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:William Beckford [Beckford, William]

SATIRES II From Modern Novel Writing or the Elegant Enthusiast, by Lady Harriet Malowy [i.e. William Beckford], 2 Vols, London, 1796. The extracts are given the volume number and the ...

mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 1975-01-15 | Author:Ayn Rand

(May-July 1969) 7. The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age PRIOR to the nineteenth century, literature presented man as a helpless being whose life and actions were determined by forces beyond ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Browning, Robert [Browning, Robert]

Thyrsus: the ivy-coiled staffer spear stuck in a pine-cone, symbol of Bacchic orgy. These, with the other Pagan tokens and pictures, mingle oddly but significantly with the references to the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-18 | Author:Jennifer Kloester

The stage was the most common form of public transport although many people, such as the Duke of Sale in The Foundling, found it an extremely uncomfortable way to travel. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:James Goho

Chapter 8 The Aboriginal in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft More than 400 years ago, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his band of conquistadores ravaged the Southwest in their ...