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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Tatar Maria;
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Tatar, Maria;

7 TAMING THE BEAST Bluebeard and Other Monsters Curiosity is a valuable trait. It will make the simians learn many things. —CLARENCE DAY, This Simian World “OF ALL the irrational ...
( Category: European November 29,2019 )
Poor Folk Anthology by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

"Yes." "That'll scarcely be possible in our time," Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch responded slowly and, as it were, dreamily; the two spoke without the slightest irony. "In the Apocalypse the angel swears ...
( Category: Russian November 20,2019 )
The Poetic Edda by Jackson Crawford
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Jackson Crawford [Crawford, Jackson]

{177} Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar Concerning Hjorvarth and Sigerlinn A king was named Hjorvarth; he had four wives. One was named Alfhild, and their son was named Hethin. The second was named ...
( Category: Medieval November 20,2019 )
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis
epub |eng | 1987-01-15 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

* * * Postscript In agreeing to the interview Mr Vidal had armed himself with the stipulation that he would be able to see and check the piece before it ...
( Category: United States November 19,2019 )
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Lobo Antunes António
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Lobo Antunes, António [Lobo Antunes, António]

13 At Christmastime the supply column brought four women stuck between the crates of the last Mercedes, not very young, not very attractive, not very clean of course, with soldiers’ ...
( Category: European November 14,2019 )
The Prosecutor by Bastos Augusto Roa
epub |eng | 2018-02-19 | Author:Bastos, Augusto Roa [Bastos, Augusto Roa]

--Gossip mill of Madrid: Tell us: Who killed the Count? --They say that The Cid killed him Because the Count was healthy. Tasteless crazy idea The truth of the case ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American November 14,2019 )
Uncommon Tongues by Nicholson Catherine;
epub |eng | 2013-11-09 | Author:Nicholson, Catherine;

The Unrestful Shepherd Spenser’s pastoral narrative performs a similarly complex rereading of the literary significance of exile. For most sixteenth-century English rhetorical and poetic theorists, exile functions as a metaphor ...
( Category: Renaissance November 10,2019 )
Beyond Sinology by Andrea Bachner
epub | | 2013-11-19 | Author:Andrea Bachner

Even faced with the danger of producing an incomprehensible text, the first-person narrator cannot desist from his politically inspired but pragmatically precarious use not only of the Chinese language, but, ...
( Category: Asian November 5,2019 )
Zazie dans le métro by Raymond Queneau
epub |fra | 1958-12-31 | Author:Raymond Queneau [Queneau, Raymond]

( Category: European November 2,2019 )
The Sea Is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
epub |eng | 2019-07-27 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Ward, M. Dawn]

The music goes on, the old couple dances on with grim determination, the boys drink on, and the critic mops his brow. CRITIC: But this is still too weak for ...
( Category: United States November 1,2019 )
Good Blonde & Others by Jack Kerouac
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Kerouac

Nosferatu (Dracula) Nosferatu is an evil name suggesting the red letters of hell—the sinister pieces of it like “fer” and “eratu” and “nos” have a red and heinous quality like ...
( Category: United States November 1,2019 )
The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Mike Rowe [Rowe, Mike]

A TALE OF TWO PUPILS George Underwood was fifteen years old when he punched his handsome saxophone player. His motivation? An unforgivable display of skulduggery that simply could not be ...
( Category: United States October 28,2019 )
Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins [Hopkins, Gerard Manley]

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple Bloom lights the orchard-apple And thicket and thorp are merry With silver-surfèd cherry And azuring-over greybell makes Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes And magic cuckoocall ...
( Category: European October 27,2019 )
Haruki Murakami by Chikako Nihei
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:Chikako Nihei

The women’s claim about Ōshima’s lack of awareness of his act of discrimination demonstrated through his “ignorance of others’ pains,” in return, proves their “ignorance of others’ pains.” Equating everything ...
( Category: Asian October 26,2019 )
The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Chapter Five THE FIRST MAKINGS OF ART THE FIRST IMAGES WERE RATHER POOR, TO THE SURPRISE OF neither man. Southey was the more experienced of the pair—he had been taking ...
( Category: European October 24,2019 )

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