Regional & Cultural
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

We believe him because what he writes “rings true,” but also because, like Cephalus in Plato’s Republic, he is now nearly free of the world and its ambitions, of the ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Roy, David Tod

Ch’un-mei Manages Coquettishly to Resist Hsi-men Ch’ing Laid by every man in the street, and Fucked by every guy in the alley, why should I deserve to be so reviled ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Lurie, Alison [Lurie, Alison]

Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. Turning aside (in the light of the current political situation, an excellent choice), he continues “down long wiggled roads” toward what Seuss ...
( Category: Children's Literature December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella [Scottoline, Lisa & Serritella, Francesca]

Tribute in Light, September 11, 2011 Loss cannot be shared, but grief can. So when my friend Courtney invited me to see the Tribute in Light with her later that ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Susan Shillinglaw & Nancy Burnett

Sea Otters Sea otter mural, Pacific Grove bike trail. For almost a century, the southern sea otter, slaughtered for its thick fur, was thought to be extinct. But in March ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karel van Loon [Loon, Karel van]

If the statisticians of modern sexological research are right, the spermatic army of Bo’s biological father (the army of Niko Neerinckx!) achieved the easiest victory in the history of warfare. ...
( Category: European December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Nawal El Saadawi

Back in her bed that night, she felt that what had happened was only a dream. If not a dream, then an accident that had befallen her without her willing ...
( Category: African December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1979-06-16 | Author:Hilda Doolittle [Doolittle, Hilda]

May 10 This is an earlier Canto (IV), it is true, but this theme runs through the Pisan series and the later Rock-Drill, to the end, so far, to 1955. ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Derek Walcott [Walcott, Derek]

II Seven Seas asked him to rake the leaves in his yard. The pomme-Arac shed so many the rusted drum filled quickly, and more were falling as he carried each ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Blaisdell

* * * 1. cayuses: wild horses THEODORE ROOSEVELT As president of the United States (1901–1909), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), a lifelong bird-lover and big-game hunter, created parkland in the United ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:A. David Moody

That might be the notary’s hand, or his own, and his reader’s. That ‘Thou’ is the all-inclusive singular which is addressing equally one’s own self and other selves, speaking to ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Monette, Paul [Monette, Paul]

1. M. C. Howatson, ed., The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford, 1990), pages 506-507. 2. All quotations from Sappho are from Mary Barnard’s Sappho: A New Translation (Univ. of ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Andrew Delbanco [Delbanco, Andrew]

What we have here is a parody of the Romantic author imagining himself as high priest charged by God to bring forth Truth. It was an idea of authorship first ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Bob Blaisdell

MARGARET FULLER Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was the author of the renowned Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a book-length essay. She was a poet, Transcendentalist, women’s rights activist, editor and ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Barghouti, Mourid [Barghouti, Mourid]

I contemplated the guesthouse on whose platform I stood. This is my first place. The faces of its men and their voices come back to me. Or is it my ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 19,2014 )