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The Greek Way by Hamilton Edith
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Hamilton, Edith [Hamilton, Edith]

A king sat on the rocky brow That looks on sea-born Salamis, And ships by thousands lay below, And men by nations—all were his. He counted them at break of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2015 )
All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:David Gessner [Gessner, David]

DURING MY MAY trip to study the Abbey papers at the library in Tucson, I’d driven up to the Glen Canyon Dam and taken a raft trip that started at ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
Memoirs of a Private Man by Winston Graham
epub |eng | | Author:Winston Graham [Graham, Winston]

A reluctance, therefore, to change from this method of narrative in Angell, Pearl and Little God is understandable, and it was only after an agony of indecision that I eventually ...
( Category: European May 27,2015 )
Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White
epub |eng | | Author:E. B. White

In Florida at this time of year, the sun does not take command of the day until a couple of hours after it has appeared in the east. It seems ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Susan Sontag

“The Primary and most beautiful of Nature’s qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times. But this motion is simply the perpetual consequence of crimes; and it is conserved ...
( Category: European May 27,2015 )
Letter to Jimmy by Alain Mabanckou
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Alain Mabanckou [Mabanckou, Alain]

••• What place is there, then, for a black American in this “Tower of Babel”? Your quest proves to be greater than you anticipate, Jimmy, extending beyond your particular case ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922 by T. S. Eliot
epub |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:T. S. Eliot [Eliot, T. S.]

You are right. I dislike Yeats. Also he and Tom are ← → He hates Tom’s poetry. His wife is a distant relation of Dorothy Pound’s, I think Anglo-Indian people.4 ...
( Category: Poetry May 25,2015 )
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4 by Eliot T. S
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Eliot, T. S.

TO Henry Allen Moe, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation TS Guggenheim Foundation 9 December 1929 177 Clarence Gate Gardens, N.W.1. Dear Mr Moe, I have just heard that Mr Louis ...
( Category: Poetry May 25,2015 )
Tumbleweed by Janwillem van de Wetering
mobi |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Janwillem van de Wetering [Wetering, Janwillem van de]

10 THE KLM PLANE BEGAN ITS DESCENT TOWARD PLESMAN Airport, , and the commissaris woke up. His small wizened face looked almost eager and he acknowledged his own excitement with ...
( Category: European May 25,2015 )
The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Harold Bloom [Bloom, Harold]

There is power in this pathos, but Priscilla is possessed in a mode that discomforts me; yet that is Hawthorne’s deliberate artistry. Her clinging weakness provokes eros in Hollingsworth and ...
( Category: United States May 25,2015 )
The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader
epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Zachary Leader [Leader, Zachary]

THAT AUGIE IS JEWISH and speaks an English in which Yiddish inflections, constructions, and expressions are heard, is part of what makes him a Columbus. In recounting his adventures, he ...
( Category: United States May 13,2015 )
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Harold Bloom

It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, The dark threw its patches down upon me also, The best I had done seem’d to me blank and suspicious, ...
( Category: United States May 10,2015 )
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV by William Butler Yeats
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:William Butler Yeats

John Shawe-Taylor There is a portrait of John Shawe-Taylor by a celebrated painter in the Dublin Municipal Gallery, but painted in the midst of a movement of the arts that ...
( Category: European April 28,2015 )
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Batuman Elif
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Batuman, Elif [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: Russian April 27,2015 )
After the Tall Timber by Renata Adler
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Renata Adler [Adler, Renata]

ON VIOLENCE FILM ALWAYS ARGUES YES THE MOTION picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people—on acts, and ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction April 17,2015 )

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