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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:James Shapiro [Shapiro, James]

11 THE KING’S EVIL The first reports of the assassination of King James reached London as dawn broke on Saturday, March 22. According to the Venetian ambassador, as word spread ...
( Category: European November 1,2015 )
Eternity's Sunrise by Leo Damrosch
epub |eng | 2015-10-30 | Author:Leo Damrosch

Apocalypse In Milton and Jerusalem, the culminating apocalypse—the breakthrough into Eternity when Albion awakens—is only briefly described, but in The Four Zoas it is described at great length. The chronology ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic October 31,2015 )
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Douglas-Fairhurst Robert
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert [Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert]

Dearest of all the signs that fleet From lips that lovingly repeat Again, again, their message sweet! In the context of the poem, these kisses come from a girl who ...
( Category: European October 28,2015 )
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 by Mark Twain
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

As I have said, I reached Stormfield on the 7th of April. Things were buzzing, so to speak. Ashcroft came up a day or two later. Meantime I had seen ...
( Category: United States October 24,2015 )
We the Living (1936) by Ayn Rand
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

Its glass door was severely, immaculately polished, but the latch on its garden gate was broken. Weeds grew over what had been gravelled walks, and cigarette stubs rocked softly in ...
( Category: United States October 24,2015 )
Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism by Marcus Boon Eric Cazdyn & Timothy Morton & Eric Cazdyn
epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Marcus Boon, Eric Cazdyn & Timothy Morton & Eric Cazdyn [Boon, Marcus]

FREUD, CURE, AND PRAXIS This invocation of the political unconscious takes us to our third territory: to psychoanalytic praxis and the category of cure, as well as the question of ...
( Category: Asian October 21,2015 )
Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

The Steinbecks’ first Los Gatos house, Arroyo del Ajo (Garlic Gulch), where they lived from 1936 through 1938, and where the novelist wrote all of The Grapes of Wrath. [Steinbeck ...
( Category: United States October 19,2015 )
Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
epub |eng | 2005-01-08 | Author:Miguel de Unamuno [Unamuno, Miguel de]

I must advert here once again to my view of the opposition that exists between individuality and personality, notwithstanding the fact that the one demands the other. Individuality is, if ...
( Category: European October 12,2015 )
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
epub |eng | 1740-01-02 | Author:Samuel Richardson [Richardson, Samuel]

Three o’clock He continues exceedingly wroth. He has ordered his travelling chariot to be got ready with all speed. What is to come next, I wonder! Sure I did not ...
( Category: European October 11,2015 )
The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-05 | Author:Roberto Arlt [Arlt, Roberto]

The Farce The entire round table got to its feet when they came in, but Erdosain stopped short in surprise when he saw one of its members was an army ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American October 11,2015 )
Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

THE TELL–TALE HEART TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. ...
( Category: United States October 10,2015 )
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (The Annotated Books) by Hans Christian Andersen
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Hans Christian Andersen

W. HEATH ROBINSON Thumbelina receives a pair of wings and is able to fly on her own. 21. “We shall call you Maya!” The renaming signals that Thumbelina has developed ...
( Category: European October 10,2015 )
The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Sam Weller [Weller, Sam]

19. THE WHITE WHALE I have been in awe of Ray Bradbury ever since my brother introduced me to his books when I was a young boy. I remember distinctly ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy October 10,2015 )
The Lost Landscape by Joyce Carol Oates
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

14. A WEEK BEFORE THE recital Cynthia told me suddenly that she’d changed her mind –“Lee Ann is going to accompany me, after all. It just seemed easier.” I was ...
( Category: United States October 9,2015 )
101 Letters to a Prime Minister by Yann Martel
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Yann Martel [Martel, Yann]

In front of the Jane Austen Centre. I was in Bath recently, where Jane Austen lived for a few years. She was miserable while there, but it’s a lovely town ...
( Category: Cultural Policy October 6,2015 )

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