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epub |eng | 2017-10-14 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

“And what the devil is to be done in that case? Six men and two women would make but a poor job in defending such a place as this, should ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

A Portrait of F. B. Table of Contents A peal is that mountain which makes a ring and is ringing. There is no squeak, there is no touch there is ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gutkin, Len;

Nightwood and Decadent Style Barnes’s career and its reception can therefore tell us something general about modernism’s ambivalence toward decadence and aestheticism. The story begins with her 1915 volume of ...
( Category: United States March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-27 | Author:Katherine Dunn

Gwendolen [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. The N-Gram graph indicates the ...
( Category: United States March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Christopher A. Snyder

‘O my brother, Percivale,’ she said, ‘Sweet brother, I have seen the Holy Grail: For, waked at dead of night, I heard a sound As of a silver horn from ...
( Category: United States March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

Not costly vain, but plentifully Good. To bid the Cellar’s Fountain never fail, Of sparkling Cyder, or of well-brew’d Ale; To buy, to pay, to blame, or to approve, Within, ...
( Category: United States March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tavia Nyong'o

The Queer Fabulist in the Preternatural Wild Why track the spoor of race thinking through the theatrical and cinematic wilds? In part, because wildness has emerged as a motif in ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Rollyson, Carl;

If we stand back from the seven individual chapters of Go Down, Moses, and from our interest in the ways they are connected to each other, we see a larger ...
( Category: United States March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-05 | Author:Philip Nel

NO NEED FOR TRICKS: WE CANNOT INCREASE UNDERSTANDING BY DENYING DIFFERENCE Surprisingly, some have alleged that a kind of literary whitewashing might actually increase understanding between people of different races. ...
( Category: United States March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Eric D. Lehman

Author and activist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of the most gifted and influential crusaders for women’s rights and economic equality. Library of Congress. Two poets, Emma Hart Willard and ...
( Category: United States March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-13 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

In the course of a December tour in Yorkshire, I rode for a long distance in one of the public coaches on the day preceding Christmas. The coach was crowded, ...
( Category: United States March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Gregory Bergman & Jodi Miller [Bergman, Gregory; Miller, Jodi]

The WTF Approach to Being a F*#!-ing Librarian in Hollywood OPTION #1 Be proud. Hey in a town of wannabes you really stick out. Sure, as a nerdy loser, but ...
( Category: United States March 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Kelly, Sean & Mann, Ted [Kelly, Sean]

As legal aid to New Hampshire's Dan Webster, Alibi Elf once helped beat the Devil. Under the spell of the Mira Chimera, we wonder things like, "How do I look ...
( Category: United States March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-18 | Author:Subgenius Foundation [Foundation, Subgenius]

LIES PUZZLING EVIDENCE CHAPTER 11 “THE UFO MADE ME DO IT” “Stretch forth thy hand from on high, rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hands ...
( Category: United States March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Jen, Gish [Jen, Gish]

In his essay “Why I Write,” George Orwell confidently gave “four great motives for writing” that he feels exist in every writer. The first of these is sheer egotism—to “be ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )