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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin
epub |eng | 2018-01-07 | Author:Aleksandr Pushkin

VII Lacking the lofty passion not to spare life for the sake of sounds, an iamb from a trochee he could not— [4] no matter how we strove—distinguish; dispraised Homer, ...
( Category: Russian January 8,2020 )
How to Be a Cat by Ralph Lazar & Lisa Swerling
epub |eng | 2016-11-26 | Author:Ralph Lazar & Lisa Swerling [Lazar, Ralph & Swerling, Lisa]

Contents How to Be a Cat About the Author Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar are the creators of the internationally beloved series Happiness Is . . . , the New ...
( Category: United States January 6,2020 )
Native American Literature by Sean Teuton
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Sean Teuton

Antiquarians and Indian salvage To succeed, Native American Studies had to tear free of the “salvage anthropology” that shaped the European study of indigenous people from the first moments of ...
( Category: United States January 5,2020 )
Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:Jonathan Dollimore

1 See especially Lewes’s detailed recent history, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality. 2 Writing in 1948, Kinsey and others pointed out that previous so-called ‘scientific’ classifications of perversions by ...
( Category: LGBT January 3,2020 )
Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Jenny Hartley

Coming to the city The young man coming to the city to seek his fortune is an old story. Dickens told it himself many times, with its stages of initiation, ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )
Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion …So Far by Terry Pratchett
epub |eng | 2012-11-08 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

( Category: European December 31,2019 )
The Club by Leo Damrosch
epub |eng | | Author:Leo Damrosch

68. Boswell letter to Johnson Just why that should have been so is not always obvious from the documentary record, but life is much more than documents. Boswell’s whimsical humorousness, ...
( Category: European December 20,2019 )
The Epic of Gesar of Ling by Robin Kornman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robin Kornman [Kornman, Robin]

It’s Ala Ala Ala. Thala is the melody of the song. This land is called Be’u-tag Dzong [Tiger Gem Fortress]. If you want to know who I am, I am ...
( Category: Asian December 17,2019 )
The Getaway Car by Donald E Westlake
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald E]

SIX LUNCH BREAK May’s Famous Tuna Casserole This recipe was Westlake’s contribution to a 1999 collection of recipes by mystery writers, A Taste of Murder. The University of Chicago Press ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective December 17,2019 )
The Bad Side of Books by D.H. Lawrence
epub |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:D.H. Lawrence

as every child knows. Ah, if only they’d taken them off! Greater novels, to my mind, are the books of the Old Testament, Genesis, Exodus, Samuel, Kings, by authors whose ...
( Category: European December 17,2019 )
Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov & Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov & Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy

* “On Learning Russian,” The Wellesley Magazine, April 1945, 191–92. A note heads the article: “The College offers this year, for the first time, a six hour course in elementary ...
( Category: United States December 17,2019 )
Byron's War by Roderick Beaton
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Roderick Beaton

He will have groaned to see the name of Blaquiere. Later, in Missolonghi, when he heard Blaquiere called a ‘humbug’, he would pointedly make no comment.30 It can only have ...
( Category: European December 16,2019 )
Jean Genet by Stephen Barber
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-12-11 | Author:Stephen Barber [Barber, Stephen]

The Penal Colony visualizes a filmic world with excruciating exactitude and anticipation; it would prove to be the last of Genet’s sustained works on spaces of incarceration and their dynamics ...
( Category: European December 12,2019 )
Things with a History by Héctor Hoyos
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Héctor Hoyos

buys it before he pays for it. The seller sells an existing commodity, the buyer buys as the mere representative of money, or rather as the representative of future money. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American December 12,2019 )
African American Literature by Hans A. Ostrom
epub |eng | 2020-11-28 | Author:Hans A. Ostrom

Jones, Gayl (1949–) Fiction writer, poet, playwright, professor, and literary critic. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Gayl Jones was creatively precocious, writing her first short story at the age of seven. ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 29,2019 )

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