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A Sportsman's Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Ivan Turgenev

Tatyana Borisovna and Her Nephew GIVE ME YOUR HAND, DEAR READER, AND COME WITH ME. THE weather is glorious; the May sky is a tender blue; the smooth young willow ...
( Category: Short Stories February 16,2020 )
The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon & Caryl Phillips & Dohra Ahmad
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Sam Selvon & Caryl Phillips & Dohra Ahmad

* * * * * * Gallows was going up the Bayswater Road that same night. The kind of thing they use for the pavements there, in the night you ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration February 16,2020 )
An Ordinary Story by Ivan Goncharov
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Ivan Goncharov [Goncharov, Ivan]

III Wednesday came round. In Yuliya Pavlovna’s drawing room some twelve or fifteen guests assembled. Four young ladies, two foreigners with beards, the hostess’ friends from abroad and one officer ...
( Category: Classics February 16,2020 )
The American Classics by Denis Donoghue
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Denis Donoghue

2 If Walden and the other books constitute, as I suggest, Thoreau’s “song of myself,” we need to trace its coordinate terms, beginning with his god-term. Like Emerson, Thoreau tended ...
( Category: United States February 13,2020 )
Petersburg by Robert A. Maguire & John E. Malmstad & Olga Matich & Andrei Bely
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Robert A. Maguire & John E. Malmstad & Olga Matich & Andrei Bely

And that was the Last Judgment. *** “How then can this be? Who can this possibly be?” “Your father.” “Who?” “Saturn.”† *** The Last Judgment was at hand. There was ...
( Category: Classics January 19,2020 )
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2018-05-03 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Descriptions of Humanity (Physical) ¶ They rode through those five years in an open car with the sun on their foreheads and their hair flying. They waved to people they ...
( Category: Essays January 17,2020 )
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 )
Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | 2001-01-17 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

ACT THREE, SCENE I: THE SEA The tiny cabin of the little freighter was old and comfortable and well used. On one side stood a little mess table with a ...
( Category: Classics January 6,2020 )
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson & Irving Howe
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Sherwood Anderson & Irving Howe [Anderson, Sherwood & Howe, Irving]

Wash Williams and George Willard arose from the pile of railroad ties and walked along the tracks toward town. The operator finished his tale quickly, breathlessly. “Her mother sent for ...
( Category: Short Stories December 30,2019 )
Thank God for the Atom Bomb by Paul Fussell
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 1981-01-19 | Author:Paul Fussell

These troops who cried and cheered with relief or who sat stunned by the weight of their experience are very different from the high-minded, guilt-ridden GIs we’re told about by ...
( Category: Anthologies November 30,2019 )
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine Pizan
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Christine Pizan [Pizan, Christine]

30. Christine talks about all the good that women have brought into the world, both now and in the past. ‘My lady, though I can see that women have brought ...
( Category: French November 20,2019 )
Country by Michael Hughes
epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:Michael Hughes

40 Pig presented it to the men. Dog stepped up. ‘Fuck it, I’ll go. No bother. Let me get a look at the whites of their eyes. See how he ...
( Category: War November 20,2019 )
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Thomas Wolfe [Wolfe, Thomas]

He harried his deficient subscribers for payment, with a wild tenacity. He accepted their easy promises without question; he hunted them down in their own rooms, or in the rooms ...
( Category: Coming of Age November 14,2019 )
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-08-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]

Composition………by Jackie Duluoz.…. 6-B “Now up yonder in Suskahooty,” said Dead Eye Dick—no, I exaggerate, his name was Black Dan—“up yonder in Saskahoty,” said Dead Eye Dick Black Dan, “we ...
( Category: Beat Generation November 1,2019 )
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 )

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