Essays & Correspondence
azw3 |eng | 2007-05-16 | Author:Borges, Jorge Luis [Borges, Jorge Luis]
V I traveled over new kingdoms, new empires. In the fall of 1066, I fought at Stamford Bridge, I do not recall whether in the forces of Harold, who was ...
( Category:
Caribbean & Latin American
June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Emily Nussbaum
* * * — Despite that meta wisecrack, that sex scene is genuinely steamy, and not just because it’s set in a shower: It’s the consummation of an attraction that ...
( Category:
Essays
June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Tony Judt [Judt, Tony]
This essay, a review of The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye Jr., first appeared in The New York ...
( Category:
Essays
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 | 2018-06-16 | Author:Polina E. Vaidman,Marina Kostalevsky
Their repertoire had been enriched by various delightful numbers. Half of the next day of my stay in Kiev was ruined by running into Zhenya Kondratiev248 (but there is worse ...
( Category:
Letters
June 17,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Mark Bowden [Bowden, Mark]
The Bright Sun of Juche Published as “Understanding Kim Jong Un, the World’s Most Enigmatic and Unpredictable Dictator,” Vanity Fair, March 2015 Does anybody make an easier target than Kim ...
( Category:
Essays
June 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-05 | Author:Rose Williams
Dear Rose, I would like to start out by saying thank you. Thank you for being strong enough and brave enough to tell your truly heart-breaking story. I will forever ...
( Category:
Letters
June 11,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Nan Shepherd [Nan Shepherd]
SEVEN Life: The Plants I have written of inanimate things, rock and water, frost and sun; and it might seem as though this were not a living world. But I ...
( Category:
Essays
June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Anne Lamott
Near the Lagoon, 2004 It is autumn now, following a treacherous August, and I awoke this morning to find that the leaves in my heart have started changing color, from ...
( Category:
Essays
June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Niccolo Machiavelli [Machiavelli, Niccolo]
CHAPTER I. WHETHER ABILITY OR FORTUNE WAS THE MAIN REASON THE ROMANS CONQUERED THEIR EMPIRE Many have held the opinion—among them Plutarch, a most serious writer—that the Roman people, in ...
( Category:
Renaissance
June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Poet A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the ...
( Category:
Essays
June 7,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-22 | Author:DuBois, Thomas [DuBois, Thomas]
A Struggle of Dynasties Eric Jedvardsson’s death occurred in a very unstable period for the Swedish monarchy. The two dynasties that had apparently ruled Sweden at least since the introduction ...
( Category:
Medieval
June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Henry David Thoreau
Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to do this work which he did—that he did not suspect himself ...
( Category:
Essays
May 30,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kerry Driscoll
WILLIAM F. CODY COMES TO TOWN The letter, which arrived at Quarry Farm on 8 September, reads, Samuel L. Clemens, Esq. Dear Sir, I should be pleased to see you ...
( Category:
United States
May 29,2019 )
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