European
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist [Heinrich Von Kleist]

Before she could read even halfway through this unprecedented piece the Colonel’s wife was speechless. She glanced fleetingly at the end and gave the sheet back to the Commandant. He ...
( Category: German February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Guillermo Arriaga [Arriaga, Guillermo]

JUST BEFORE DAWN, I noticed her kneeling on the mattress, watching me. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “Nothing,” she answered in a low voice. “So?” She smiled and shrugged her ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Oksana Zabuzhko [Zabuzhko, Oksana]

—first came this poem, also unfinished—and couldn’t you finish it, see it through to the end—was it that hard?—then the dream, then—everything that came after. So knock yourself out now, ...
( Category: Scandinavian February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1997-08-26 | Author:Patrick Rambaud [Rambaud, Patrick]

on foot, studying their cargo and occasionally pointing to a wounded man. 'That one's not worth the trouble any more . . .' The dying man would be dragged off ...
( Category: French February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

At Villequier Now that the monuments of Paris and its streets, Its fog and its buildings, are far from my eyes; And now that I am under the branches of ...
( Category: Renaissance February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-03 | Author:Craig Williamson [Williamson, Craig]

THE WIFE’S LAMENT The Wife’s Lament has been read as a riddle, an allegory of the Church’s longing for Christ, a retainer’s lament for his lost lord, a speaking sword, ...
( Category: Renaissance February 15,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2017-04-28 | Author:Franz Hessel & Walter Benjamin & Amanda DeMarco

Berlin’s Boulevard Tauentzienstraße and Kurfürstendamm have the important cultural task of teaching the Berliner to be a flaneur, unless this urban pastime should at some point become unfashionable. But maybe ...
( Category: German January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-26 | Author:Émile Zola & Elinor Dorday & Robert Lethbridge

( Category: French January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-13 | Author:Marcel Proust & Brian Nelson & Adam Watt

Explanatory Notes 3 play Wagner as well as that . . . Potain: the music of the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–83) became particularly popular in France in the late ...
( Category: French January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-22 | Author:Émile Zola & Thomas Walton & Roger Pearson

Chapter 8 With one last flick of Christine’s feather duster, their installation in the Rue de Douai was completed. Besides the small, inconvenient studio, they had only a tiny bedroom ...
( Category: French January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-05 | Author:Colin Falconer [Falconer, Colin]

✽ ✽ ✽ The moon fell below the hills. A shadow down in the street hurried inside a darkened doorway. A servant answered the timid knock and escorted the visitor ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Tove Jansson [Tove Jansson]

Ham and I spent ten days: See Letters to Vivica Bandler, Unknown date in a snowstorm. 1950. Started writing the first Moomin story: The date of writing Småtrollen och den ...
( Category: Scandinavian January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Nova Lee Maier [Maier, Nova Lee]

Didi was sitting half upright in the bed in the living room. The visitors were gone. Oscar’s sister had finally come to see Indy, and a couple of old school ...
( Category: Murder January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-06 | Author:Ryan Armstrong [Armstrong, Ryan]

Chapter 20 I was dreaming when I heard it. I wasn’t sure where I was, or what was happening, since I was half awake. The banging at the door was ...
( Category: German January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Daniel Kehlmann & Carol Brown Janeway [Kehlmann, Daniel & Janeway, Carol Brown]

THE MOUNTAIN By the light of a guttering oil lamp, while the wind blew past carrying more and more snowflakes, Aimé Bonpland was trying to write a letter home. If ...
( Category: German December 30,2019 )