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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus by Lisa Jarnot
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Lisa Jarnot

Concurrent with the late Passages poems of Bending the Bow came a project of another sort, a series of translations of the Chimeras of Gerard de Nerval, which Duncan began ...
( Category: United States April 21,2018 )
The Book of Repulsive Women by Djuna Barnes
epub |eng | 1915-11-01 | Author:Djuna Barnes [Barnes, Djuna]

Though her lips are vague as fancy In her youth— They bloom vivid and repulsive As the truth. Even vases in the making Are uncouth. —In Particular— WHAT loin-cloth, what ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic September 6,2017 )
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett
epub |eng | 2013-12-19 | Author:Gene Andrew Jarrett

Scene 2 [Scene 2 changes, disclosing interior of cavern, damp fire, table, three or four rude stools. Some of fugitives sitting, some stretched before fire.] MAMMY: Wonder whar dat boy ...
( Category: Renaissance May 3,2016 )
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis by David Der-wei Wang
epub | | 2015-01-12 | Author:David Der-wei Wang

The action and costuming of the roles in Chinese drama indicate that they are not figures of reality. Objectively speaking, they can be likened to puppets, to ghosts; subjectively, they ...
( Category: Poetry March 2,2016 )
Modernism by Peter Childs
mobi |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Peter Childs

Everything I have done has been influenced by Flaubert and Cézanne, and this gave me a new feeling about composition. Up to that time composition had consisted of a central ...
( Category: Modernism January 17,2015 )
The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

It was about a week later that Florence Bradley asked us to go with her to see the second performance of the Sacre du Printemps. The russian ballet had just ...
( Category: United States November 30,2014 )
Selected Letters of William Styron by William Styron
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:William Styron [Styron, Rose]

TO WILLIAM BLACKBURN July 11, 1962 Vineyard Haven, MA Dear Doctor: I’m delighted to hear that you’re coming and will be on the lookout for you at the dock in ...
( Category: Modernism October 16,2014 )
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Thomas Mann

Evenings he gazed at the stars. He was seized with an interest in the passing year— he who had already spent some twenty-odd cycles upon this earth without ever troubling ...
( Category: Modernism March 25,2014 )
Forty Stories by Anton Chekhov; Robert Payne
mobi |eng | 1914-01-02 | Author:Anton Chekhov; Robert Payne

V Gusev returned to the sick bay and lay in his hammock. Once again he was tormented with vague yearnings, and could not understand what he wanted. There was a ...
( Category: Modernism March 25,2014 )
The Years by Virginia Woolf
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

“It’s a mercy she’s got something to distract her,” said Mrs Burt as Crosby passed the kitchen window the day after the funeral in her best mantle and bonnet; for ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde

* * * THE BLACKMAILING OF THE EMPEROR * * * 'As soon as the man was dead the Emperor turned to me, and when he had wiped away the ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )

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