Regional & Cultural
azw3 |eng | 1992-04-26 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

As one has already seen in other times and other places, life has its vexations. When Ricardo Reis awoke late next morning, he sensed a presence in the room. Perhaps ...
( Category: European June 26,2019 )
epub |swe | 2005-09-06 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

10 – I shall be asked why I have really narrated all these little things which according to the traditional judgement are matters of indifference: it will be said that ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

7. Don’t Forget Where You Come From Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 11, 1996 Vonnegut celebrates his own hometown, and hopes that some graduates will become the kind of “saints” ...
( Category: United States June 24,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Max Beerbohm [Beerbohm, Max]

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 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 1989-06-20 | Author:King, Stephen, 1947-;Underwood, Tim;Miller, Chuck, 1952- & Underwood, Tim & Miller, Chuck, 1952-

104 . BARE BONES that any boy would like to be, the kind of boy any boy fantasizes himself to be: he can get out of knots. He's very brave. ...
( Category: United States June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Tobias Churton

As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb; his ...
( Category: Religion June 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-16 | Author:Heather Houser

He’d smoke his way through thirty high-grade grams [of marijuana] a day … an insane and deliberately unpleasant amount…. But he would force himself to do it anyway. He would ...
( Category: United States June 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Coco d'Hont

Half-Formed Things: Building Gendered and Ethnic Identities Beloved demonstrates that transgression does not only cross existing boundaries, such as the one between past and present, to problematize power relationships that ...
( Category: United States June 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Jennifer Levasseur & Kevin Rabalais

Interview with James Salter Robert Franden / 2007 From Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Reprinted courtesy of Harry Ransom Center. Ransom Center Advisory Council Member Robert ...
( Category: United States June 16,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Emily Ruth Rutter

and I wake up mumbling at the cross roads/ my head hung down and I. Crying poison/whips hissed-screamed in my past. And the windows/ painted with blood in my soul ...
( Category: United States June 14,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 1984-06-21 | Author:Bogdanov, Alexander [Bogdanov, Alexander]

2. Reality or Fantasy? As I began to pay more attention to my surroundings, I wanted to know whether Werner and my other comrades knew anything about what had happened ...
( Category: Russian June 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Andrew Feldman

During the three weeks following the release of The Old Man and the Sea, eighty to ninety letters a day arrived at the Finca Vigía from high school kids, soldiers, ...
( Category: United States June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:A. B. Yehoshua

5 While Abulafia was bowing excitedly to his uncle, the same unseen hand that was gently wiping away the painful rift in his soul was transferring it slowly to that ...
( Category: Jewish June 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Burrow, J. A.; Turville-Petre, Thorlac; & Thorlac Turville-Petre

11 St Erkenwald The alliterative poem St Erkenwald survives in just one manuscript, British Library MS Harley 2250. This copy was made in 1477, but the poem was most likely ...
( Category: European June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anonymous Anonymous

22 BEOWULF SEEKS GRENDEL’S MOTHER. Beowulf answered, Ecgtheow’s son: Beowulf exhorts the old king to arouse himself for action. “Grieve not, O wise one! for each it is better, His ...
( Category: Medieval June 7,2019 )