Regional & Cultural
epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:John Matteson [Matteson, John]
CHAPTER TEN ORCHARD HOUSE “My associations with the place are of the happiest and holiest kind” —A. BRONSON ALCOTT, Journals, April 28, 1880 BRONSON FELT HE HAD A STROKE OF ...
( Category:
United States
April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Kevin J. Hayes [Hayes, Kevin J.]
Andalusia, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, south elevation, showing hexastyle doric portico. Shortly after returning from Andalusia, Poe was stricken ill and confined to bed for around a month. Consequently, he had ...
( Category:
United States
April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Grossman [Grossman, Richard]
When a man, through stubbornness, insists to do this or that, Something absurd or whimsical, only because he will, He is weak. He blows with his lips against the tempest; ...
( Category:
United States
April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Rebecca Lemon & Emma Mason & Jonathan Roberts & Christopher Rowland
CHAPTER 25 Jonathan Swift Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Writing to the Duke of Dorset to ask a favor for a fellow clergyman in financial distress, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St ...
( Category:
European
April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-29 | Author:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Slave quarters at Jefferson Davis’s plantation, circa 1860–1870. Photograph. Library of Congress. Inscribed on the front: “Sent Home by Elizabeth Findley Missionary to the freedmen” and on the back: “Graveyard ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
Austen also provides a few fathers who provide well for their daughters: The Rev. Mr. Morland: The father of Northanger Abbey’s heroine is a sensible father. His daughter, Catherine, has ...
( Category:
European
April 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:McPhee, John [McPhee, John]
On the first morning, the camp runs one-on-one drills, then half-field scrimmages, then full-field scrimmages, while the camp’s own coaches (mainly college assistants) watch. The camp’s coaches then pick their ...
( Category:
United States
April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]
Memories of a Battle It’s not true that I’ve forgotten everything, the memories are still there, hidden in the grey tangle of the brain, in the damp bed of sand ...
( Category:
European
March 5,2016 )
epub | | 2012-12-02 | Author:Shu-mei Shih
Proletarian Fiction: Nativist and Critical Modernity The New Taiwan Literature Movement of the 1920s and 1930s tried to change people’s worldviews to assist in political and social modernization. Eventually it ...
( Category:
Ethnic Studies
March 2,2016 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Umberto Eco
Since we began by speaking of China, let us see what Kircher, insatiable in his lunatic curiosity, did with China. Egyptian was an original language, certainly more perfect than Hebrew ...
( Category:
European
February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]
Whereas newspapers once had to send their spies into the corridors of power in Rome to wrangle cautious admissions out of people in the know, today if anything they have ...
( Category:
European
February 22,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]
He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers . . . The scaffold is a vision . . . It seems as though it were a being, ...
( Category:
European
February 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Ferber
N Nature “Nature” in Greek (physis) and Latin (natura) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand ...
( Category:
European
February 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-13 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno & Wieland Hoban
81 BERG TO WIESENGRUND-ADORNO SATTENDORF, 26.8.1928 Gut Berghof Post office: Sattendorf 9 26./8.28. Lake Ossiach Carinthia My dear friend, in sending me your ‘Four Songs’, you have fulfilled – nay, ...
( Category:
European
February 13,2016 )
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