Regional & Cultural
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Black Library [Library, Black]

THE BURNING Nick Kyme The following events take place between Salamander and Firedrake, the first two novels of the Tome of Fire trilogy. This series follows the Salamander Space Marines ...
( Category: United States June 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Ignatieff, Michael, Hardy, Henry, Berlin, Isaiah

1 ‘On dirait l’esprit d’un chimiste anglais dans l’âme d’un bouddhiste hindou; se charge qui pourra d’expliquer cet étrange accouplment’: Le Roman russe (Paris, 1886), 282. 2 Archilochus fragment 201 ...
( Category: Russian June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard [Howard, Elizabeth Jane]

PART THREE 1 One morning – it must have been a blurb-writing day – I noticed that Cecil seemed unusually absorbed by a proof copy he was reading. When I ...
( Category: European June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Harold Bloom

Daniel In my far-off youth, when I was an intoxicated exegete of William Blake, the book of Daniel held enormous fascination for me. In old age I am wary of ...
( Category: European June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Bloom, Harold [Bloom, Harold]

The you and we are Mrs. Stetson’s own italics, helping acutely to emphasize the authentic accent of the enthusiast. Alas, Mrs. Stet-son was not saved from the inevitable rejection endured ...
( Category: United States June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Robert Roper [Roper, Robert]

Corral Log Motel (interior) He had sent White something else instead, a story about Pnin, a Russian-born professor, which was suitable. Writing that and writing the installments of Speak, Memory ...
( Category: Russian June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Said, Edward W. [SAID, EDWARD W.]

In their movement of regenerative rebellion, the Palestinians, like the Algerians and Black Panthers before them, show Genet a new language, not of orderly communication, but of astonishing lyricism, of ...
( Category: United States June 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

Hear me speak, my brethren here, And my comely sisters too. We’ve toiled so hard for many a year, And our future many rue. Our old way of life will ...
( Category: United States June 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Erich Muhsam

1. Auguste Comte (1798–1857); Thomas Müntzer (1488–1525), peasant rebel leader 2. Literally, “time of the genius;” refers to German arts and literature of the late eighteenth century. 3. Friedrich Hölderlin ...
( Category: European June 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:C.P. Cavafy [Cavafy, C. P.]

We have Cavafy’s transcription of this passage into Modern Greek, and it is worth quoting because, in the subtle alterations it makes to the original, it sheds light on the ...
( Category: European June 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-12 | Author:Marc Weingarten [Weingarten, Marc]

The book is a diary of everything Tregaskis saw or heard, written in a clipped, straightforward style. Any speculative attempts at taking the emotional temperature of the situation are limited ...
( Category: United States June 13,2015 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Jacobson, Howard [Howard, Jacobson,]

SEVEN 1 The agreement had been that Treslove would take his sons on holiday and then see. Heads he'd resume his previous existence, forget all the rubbish, go out looking ...
( Category: Jewish June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-26 | Author:Elif Batuman [Batuman, Elif]

Every day for two hours, after my language class with Muzaffar, I studied “Old Uzbek” literature with Dilorom Salohiy, an assistant professor at Samarkand State University. Dilorom, who held doctoral ...
( Category: General June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

VIII Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece1 But the Brute said in his breast, “Till the mills I grind have ceased, The riches shall be dust of dust, dry ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm,Phillip Lopate

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European June 12,2015 )