Home > Literature & Fiction > Essays & Correspondence
Essays & Correspondence
Barking with the Big Dogs by Natalie Babbitt
epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Babbitt

Taking questions at a New York City school, 1981 “Once, on a school visit, I was asked what the message in Tuck Everlasting is. I said, as I always do, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 17,2019 )
Life in Culture by Lionel Trilling
epub |eng | | Author:Lionel Trilling

* * * 1. Steven Marcus (1928–2018), literary critic and scholar, was Trilling’s student at Columbia and went on to become his colleague in the English Department. 120. TO PASCAL ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 17,2019 )
The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1 by C. S. Lewis
epub |eng | 2009-06-22 | Author:C. S. Lewis [Lewis, C. S.]

( Category: Arts & Literature January 16,2019 )
Tree and Leaf: Including MYTHOPOEIA by J.R.R. Tolkien
mobi |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien

NOTES A (see here) The very root (not only the use) of their ‘marvels’ is satiric, a mockery of unreason; and the ‘dream’ element is not a mere machinery of ...
( Category: Contemporary January 16,2019 )
Mysticism and Logic by Bertrand Russell
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

The Ultimate Constituents of Matter23 I WISH to discuss in this article no less a question than the ancient metaphysical query, “What is matter?” The question, “What is matter?” in ...
( Category: Philosophy January 12,2019 )
All Art is Propaganda by George Orwell
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

“So it’s knock out your pipes and follow me! And it’s finish up your swipes and follow me! Oh, hark to the big drum calling, Follow me—follow me home!”9 and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 10,2019 )
A Life in Letters by George Orwell
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

‘Orwell and the Stinkers’: A Correspondence 29 June 1945 Tribune On 29 June 1945, Tribune published a short review by Subramaniam 1 of Million: Second Collection,2 edited by John Singer. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 10,2019 )
Steep Trails by John Muir
epub |eng | 2018-01-02 | Author:John Muir [John Muir]

– CHAPTER 16 – Nevada’s Dead Towns20 Nevada is one of the very youngest and wildest of the states; nevertheless, it is already strewn with ruins that seem as grey ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 3,2019 )
The Curious Humanist by von Moltke Johannes;
epub |eng | | Author:von Moltke, Johannes;

PAISAN: A PARADIGMATIC FILM The average spectator knows more about reality than is offered him in our movie houses. It should be the other way round. SIEGFRIED KRACAUER, “The Mirror ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 1,2019 )
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
epub |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Truman Capote [Capote, Truman]

TC: From what she told me, it seems the only explanation. JAKE: She doesn’t know what happened. She wasn’t there. She was sitting on her butt reading magazines. TC: Well, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 31,2018 )
Just Living by Author
epub |eng | 2018-12-29 | Author:Author

( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 30,2018 )
An Irish Navvy by Donall MacAmhlaigh
epub |eng | | Author:Donall MacAmhlaigh

1 An old hag of Irish legend. 2 A reference to Tomás Ó Criomhthain who wrote The Islandman which was translated by Robin Flower and is available in the Oxford ...
( Category: Ethnic & National December 30,2018 )
Letters to a Young Progressive by Mike S. Adams
epub |eng | 2018-12-26 | Author:Mike S. Adams

( Category: Politics & Government December 27,2018 )
Stigmata by Cixous Hélène;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Cixous, Hélène; [HéLèNE CIXOUS]

Meanwhile Daedalus, tired of Crete and of his long exile, was filled with longing for his own country, but he was shut in by the sea.4 Daedalus is also a ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 27,2018 )
Speeches of Note by Shaun Usher
epub |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:Shaun Usher

WHO IDA B. WELLS WHERE NEW YORK WHEN JUNE 1, 1909 THIS AWFUL SLAUGHTER Born in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells was a journalist and activist who spent much ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 26,2018 )

First Prev [109] [110] [111] [112] 113 [114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] Next Last