Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2008-09-13 | Author:Scalzi, John [Scalzi, John]

THE MEANING OF LIFE Today’s reader request, from Karl: I would like to know what you think about the question, “what is the meaning of life?” Is it a good ...
( Category: Essays September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]

A WOMAN WITH A LITTLE DOG The funny thing about Barbara is she has a little dog who she insists is a well-behaved dog but who, in reality, either barks ...
( Category: Essays September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER VIII. AN ESCAPE. A few days after this—on the 23rd of December—Maurice Frere was alarmed by a piece of startling intelligence. The notorious Dawes had escaped from gaol! Captain ...
( Category: Essays September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 1931-12-01 | Author:Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de [Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de]

X Roused by the call, the pilot’s wife looked musingly at her husband. I’ll let him sleep a bit longer, she thought. She admired that spanned bared chest of his ...
( Category: Essays September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Chatwin, Bruce & Shakespeare, Nicholas [Chatwin, Bruce & Shakespeare, Nicholas]

To Francis Steegmuller535 L6 Albany (top) | Piccadilly | London | 21 March 1980 Dear Francis, You can certainly borrow, not rent the above, but I feel I must warn ...
( Category: Letters & Correspondence September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-02 | Author:James, Clive [James, Clive]

A BIG BOUTIQUE OF AUSTRALIAN ESSAYS After only four annual volumes, The Best Australian Essays has reached the point where the law of increasing expectations begins to kick in. By ...
( Category: Essays September 13,2024 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Ellison, Harlan [Ellison, Harlan]

FEAR NOT YOUR ENEMIES This argument for gun control, written shortly after the December, 1980 murder of John Lennon, appeared in the adult fantasy magazine Heavy Metal, which is referenced ...
( Category: Essays September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Hesse, Hermann [Hesse, Hermann]

Montagnola, beginning of April 1933 So you have turned up once again like a friendly, helpful magician. Thank you very much for your kind letters and gifts. The gift is ...
( Category: Letters & Correspondence September 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Hamill, Pete [Hamill, Pete]

They want a new Ireland, not simply an Ireland in which the six counties in the North are tacked onto the South. A peace conference would almost certainly lead to ...
( Category: Essays September 10,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-25 | Author:Gay, Ross [Gay, Ross]

1 Can I tell you, there is evidently a small career to be made of proving that Homer, “author” of The Iliad and The Odyssey, is in fact one person. ...
( Category: Essays September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Gibson, William [Gibson, William]

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN, traversing the Seventies in whatever post-hippie, preslacker mode I could manage, I made a substantial part of my living, such as it was, in ...
( Category: Essays September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1951-03-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

( Category: Essays September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-14 | Author:Grann, David [Grann, David]

* * * — “I have infected you,” Chris warns the reader at the beginning of “Amok.” “You will not be able to get free of me.” Wroblewski remained haunted ...
( Category: Essays September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Fulghum, Robert [Fulghum, Robert]

( Category: Essays September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Franzen, Jonathan [Franzen, Jonathan]

My parents met two years after Pearl Harbor, in the fall of 1943, and within a few months they were exchanging cards and letters. My father worked for the Great ...
( Category: Speeches September 8,2024 )