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The Undiscovered Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov

THE GRATEFUL GERMAN IONCE KNEW A GRATEFUL GERMAN. The first time I met him was in Frankfurt-am-Main. He was walking along Dummstrasse with a monkey on a leash. One could ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
Collected Poems: 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Adrienne Rich [Rich, Adrienne]

(not from these, surely, Protestant separatists, Jew-baiters, nightriders who fired in Irasburg in nineteen-sixty-eight on a black family newly settled in these hills) From where the dew grows thick late ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
What Is Found There by Adrienne Rich
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Adrienne Rich

One rainy day in the spring of 1960, the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan arrived at my door, sent to me by our mutual friend Denise Levertov. I had a ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Dostoevsky Fyodor
epub, azw3 | | 2012-07-10 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor

“Why, you—” “What?” “Why, you—you’re speaking as though you were reading from a book,” she said, and something that sounded like irony could suddenly be heard in her voice. I ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub, mobi |eng | 1987-12-31 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

MAKAR DEVUSHKIN September 30 Makar Alekseyevich, my precious friend! It is all done! My lot is cast; I have no knowledge of what it is to be, but I am ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER 9 At the top of the steps of the hotel’s wide porch, carried up the stairs in a chair and surrounded by footmen, maidservants and numerous obsequious hotel staff, ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
epub |eng | 2017-02-07 | Author:Francis Wheen [Francis Wheen]

8 Candles in the wind Ours is an evangelical culture. So many people convinced that they’ve been saved by Jesus, cured by homeopathy or the laying on of hands, abducted ...
( Category: United States February 23,2017 )
The Illustrated Walden by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Ploughing, harrowing, and furrowing, 7 50 Too much. Beans for seed, 3 12½ Potatoes " 1 33 Peas " 0 40 Turnip seed, 0 06 White line for crow fence, ...
( Category: United States January 9,2017 )
Running With the Bulls by Valerie Hemingway
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Valerie Hemingway [Hemingway, Valerie]

Thomas Reginald Smith and Millicent Danby on their wedding day, December 5, 1936, in Blackheath, London. COLLECTION OF VALERIE HEMINGWAY Valerie Danby-Smith on her first birthday, May 5, 1941, Dublin. ...
( Category: United States December 7,2016 )
Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote (Vintage International) by Capote Truman
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Capote, Truman [Capote, Truman]

[New York] [13 February 1955] Last Sunday, you printed a letter by Members of The Friday Drama Group in Montclair, N.J. These ladies wished to “protest vigorously” the theme of ...
( Category: United States December 6,2016 )
The Life of Henry Brulard by John Sturrock
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:John Sturrock

Sunday altar.—Mountains.—Périer garden.—Terrace 40 feet high decked with vines and flowers.—My uncle’s room. J. My private garden next to the water stone.—A. Natural history room.—F. Locked cupboards containing minerals, seashells.—T. ...
( Category: European December 4,2016 )
Cervantes' "Don Quixote by Roberto González Echevarría
epub |eng | 2015-11-21 | Author:Roberto González Echevarría [Echevarría, Roberto González]

( Category: European November 22,2016 )
The Problem with Me by Han Han
epub |eng | | Author:Han Han

FOR EVERY SELF April 2012 Shortly before the Spring Festival in 2012, Han Han was accused by a number of prominent bloggers of not being the author of the books ...
( Category: Asian August 10,2016 )
Syria Speaks by Malu Halasa
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Malu Halasa [Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud]

Yazbek’s narrative brims with stark images. One, for example, describes security forces attacking a funeral, shooting and critically injuring three pallbearers, causing the mourners to flee, leaving the coffin alone ...
( Category: African August 6,2016 )
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
epub |eng | 2009-04-18 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

By noon, feeling somewhat strengthened and refreshed, we again renewed our attempt at getting up provisions, Peters and myself going down alternately, and always with more or less success, until ...
( Category: United States July 22,2016 )

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