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The Philosophy of Tolkien by Kreeft Peter
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-04-09 | Author:Kreeft, Peter [Kreeft, Peter]

6.3 Is faith (trust) wisdom or ignorance? The Lord of the Rings never shows us a choice for or against any explicitly religious or supernatural faith. But it shows us ...
( Category: European July 11,2016 )
The Man Who Invented Fiction by William Egginton
epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:William Egginton [Egginton, William]

For modern readers, pastoral has, to put it mildly, gone out of style. There are good reasons for this. Pastoral plots consist largely of handsome shepherds pining for virtuous shepherdesses ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2016 )
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays by Cynthia Ozick
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick

Transcending the Kafkaesque How, after all, does one dare, how can one presume? Franz Kafka, named for the fallen crown of a defunct empire, has himself metamorphosed into an empire ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2016 )
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished - Revised & Expanded Edition by Rocky Wood
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:Rocky Wood [Wood, Rocky]

We also read in the screenplay that Mrs. Carmody was an old woman who ran an antique shop on Carbine Street, Weathersfield. Interestingly, and knowing King this can be no ...
( Category: United States July 1,2016 )
Tolstoy's Diaries, Volume 2 by R. F. Christian
epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:R. F. Christian [R. F. Christian]

2 March, Yasnaya Polyana Haven’t written my diary for twelve days. I’ve felt both good and bad physically; more often bad. I’m just about surviving. I’m working on myself inwardly ...
( Category: Russian June 27,2016 )
German Philosophy by Bowie Andrew;
epub |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Bowie, Andrew;

Ideology and commodity Marx’s mature work in Capital (first volume published 1867) seeks to analyse the mechanisms of 19th-century capitalism which lead to the impoverishment of the many in economies ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 10,2016 )
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin
epub |eng | 2002-05-22 | Author:Wendy Martin

Perhaps most striking in this poem is that the speaker foregrounds the descent, not the rising, of a balloon, and that the descending balloon is feminine. This surprising focus is ...
( Category: United States May 23,2016 )
Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical by Sciabarra Chris
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Sciabarra, Chris [Sciabarra, Chris]

MASTER AND SLAVE As we have seen, The Fountainhead provided Rand with the first opportunity to present a complex psychological portrait of those individuals whom she described as “second-handers.” As ...
( Category: Russia May 19,2016 )
And Yet... by Christopher Hitchens
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens

On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part I Of Vice and Men Begin professional report and opinion here Insofar as we are able to be objective, here follows a brief physical ...
( Category: United States May 17,2016 )
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry:A Critical Edition by Ezra Pound & Haun Saussy & Ernest Fenollosa & Jonathan Stalling & Lucas Klein
epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Ezra Pound & Haun Saussy & Ernest Fenollosa & Jonathan Stalling & Lucas Klein [Pound, Ezra]

But this transcendence of parts of speech is only the beginning of the matter. So far we have been dealing with visible acts and truths; but by far the larger ...
( Category: Asian May 14,2016 )
Case for Shakespeare by Scott McCrea
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Scott McCrea

(Hmnlct, I.iii.78-80) Bacon states in another essay that "chiefly, the mold of a mans fortune is in his own hands,"" which is the same idea as Cassius' line in Julius ...
( Category: Shakespeare May 11,2016 )
Second Words by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

The North, the Wilderness, has traditionally been used in Canadian literature as a symbol for the world of the unexplored, the unconscious, the romantic, the mysterious and the magical. There ...
( Category: United States May 9,2016 )
The Life of William Wordsworth by John Worthen
epub |eng | 2014-01-26 | Author:John Worthen

Grasmere was not simply a place which encouraged Wordsworth to write poems and pastorals. It reminded him not only of what others had lost, but of what he too had ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 4,2016 )
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 Real Middle Earth by Brian Bates
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Bates

13. Shapeshifters In the real Middle-earth, it was believed that certain people could alter their shape and spirit from human to animal form. So that they appeared, sounded and behaved ...
( Category: European April 25,2016 )

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