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Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Labanyi Jo
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-25 | Author:Labanyi, Jo [Labanyi, Jo]

11. Drawing by Lorca, Self-Portrait in New York (Antorretrato en Nueva York) Censorship and literary anachronism During the Franco dictatorship (1939–75), censorship and travel restrictions isolated Spain, particularly in the ...
( Category: European January 3,2016 )
Curtain Up by Julius Green
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Julius Green

SCENE THREE Saunders’ Folly Witness for the Prosecution is Agatha Christie’s undisputed theatrical masterpiece. This accomplished three-act courtroom drama with its classic ‘quadruple twist’ ending sets the benchmark for the ...
( Category: Drama January 2,2016 )
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons by Shirane Haruo
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Shirane, Haruo

FIGURE 21 DOLL’S FESTIVAL AND IKEBANA This “portrait of a beautiful person” (biiinga) in Chōbunsai Eishi’s series “Elegant Five Sacred Festivals” (Fūryū gosekku, ca. 1794–1795) exemplifies the ways in which ...
( Category: Asian December 28,2015 )
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | 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 December 27,2015 )
Built of Books by Thomas Wright
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Wright

* If Douglas did harbour such hopes as he sat in the Tite Street library on that July afternoon, the portents would have struck him as auspicious. He was, as ...
( Category: European December 22,2015 )
Louisa May Alcott by Susan Cheever
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Susan Cheever

Further up the Atlantic Coast, Louisa May Alcott was taking her first trip beyond New England. She hadn’t left Baltimore yet, but her journal is already more Dickensian than Richardsonian. ...
( Category: United States December 17,2015 )
Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture by Chelsea Cain & Moon Unit Zappa
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Chelsea Cain & Moon Unit Zappa [Cain, Chelsea & Zappa, Moon Unit]

Nostalgia is a funny thing. I remember vividly the very air of San Antonio, the warm, sweet, almost rotten smell of the river and the jungle, the feel of green ...
( Category: United States December 16,2015 )
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Catriona Kelly
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2001-08-22 | Author:Catriona Kelly [Kelly, Catriona]

14. Cartoon of two writers by Yu. Gorokhov. Chapter 6 ‘And don’t dispute with fools’ Men, women, and society For you, my enchantresses, Only for you, my beauties . . ...
( Category: Russian December 15,2015 )
The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Pedagogy “Go ahead. Try me. The next one of you peckerwoods who sprays burning lighter fluid into my locker, boosts the tape deck out of my car or pees on ...
( Category: United States December 5,2015 )
Wilfred Owen by Stallworthy Jon
epub |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Stallworthy, Jon [Stallworthy, Jon]

and Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, And ...
( Category: European November 27,2015 )
Selected Cronicas (New Directions Paperbook, 834) by Clarice Lispector
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 1996-11-16 | Author:Clarice Lispector

THE LEARNED MAN He now manages a shoe-shop. Not because he likes the job, but it was all he could find. He was forever asking himself: where did I go ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American November 17,2015 )
A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Harkup

Three Act Tragedy Mr Babbington was peering across the room with amiable short-sighted eyes. He took a sip of his cocktail and choked a little. He was unused to cocktails, ...
( Category: European November 12,2015 )
Biggins by Christopher Biggins
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Christopher Biggins [Christopher Biggins]

I was playing Babes in the Wood in Birmingham when Alan Boyd came to see me. He was a big-league London Weekend Television producer and I admit I was flattered ...
( Category: United States November 12,2015 )
Thurber: Writings & Drawings by James Thurber
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:James Thurber [Thurber, James]

Here Lies Miss Groby MISS GROBY taught me English composition thirty years ago. It wasn’t what prose said that interested Miss Groby; it was the way prose said it. The ...
( Category: United States November 12,2015 )
Orwell: Life and Art by Jeffrey Meyers
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Jeffrey Meyers [Meyers, Jeffrey]

THIRTEEN THE EVOLUTION OF NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR In this essay I argued forcefully against the prevailing critical opinion that Nineteen Eighty-Four is a “nightmare vision” of a totalitarian future. I believe, ...
( Category: European November 8,2015 )

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