Essays & Correspondence
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-19 | Author:John Lister-Kaye

Animals are by no means alone in staking claims. Every seed that falls and germinates is a claim in the making. From the first sprout veering skywards from the splitting ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Ronald C. White Jr. [Jr., Ronald C. White]

Russell, known to be disdainful of everything not English, left his first encounter with Lincoln “agreeably impressed with his shrewdness, humor, and natural sagacity.” The clock was running down at ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Ronald C White & Jr. [Ronald C White & Jr.]

LINCOLN WAS NOT PREPARED to deal with the crisis of Fort Sumter at the beginning of his presidency. He had determined in Springfield to preserve the Union without war, and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Jay Parini

LETTER ON EDUCATION* [1902] DEAR S., I was very glad to have a serious conversation with X. about the education of children. What he and I quite agree about, but ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Rosemary’s friends are the most wonderful people in the world and launched an extensive search for her that covered the southern peninsula. Several private cars full of her friends and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Hildegard of Bingen

O giver of life and splendour of joys O sweetness of all delights, in you never fading! Pray for us to your Son, O Mary, Star of the Sea. Glory ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Paul Kingsnorth [Paul Kingsnorth]

For now, I’ve had enough of writing. My head is buzzing with it. I am going to pick up my new scythe, lovingly made for me recently from sugar maple, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Claudia Roth Pierpont [Pierpont, Claudia Roth]

In her autobiography, Hurston quickly dismisses her first marriage and entirely neglects to mention her second; each lasted only a matter of months. She wed her longtime Howard University boyfriend ...
( Category: Women's Studies April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Cecil Beaton

1972 JANUARY 1972 “Sir” is a romantic title. It is much easier on the tongue than “Duke” or “Earl.” A Knight at best is something of literature and chivalry. Hugh ...
( Category: Memoirs April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-11 | Author:Viet Thanh Nguyen

Second Country JOSEPH KERTES When the Hungarians surprised the Russians by rising up against them in the fall of 1956, the borders opened and my family fled. I was almost ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Don Graham

9 Being and Nothingness in L.A. Once back in L.A. and the familiar confines of the studio in Burbank, everybody was presumably happy to be home, but much of the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Brian Dillon [Brian Dillon]

¶ On the detail. Is it possible generally to love the particular, universally to admire the individual instance? To say: I’m not interested in specificity, only in specifics? I cannot ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-11 | Author:Ali, Kazim;

PARIS Your little canvas, a little autobiography littered on the surface. The way you first started swearing: on your back on the stone fence in Cassis, overlooking the stretch of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Laura Raicovich

I think the window was dirty, but maybe not. The sun shined a little, so I moved the white curtain, which was long but easy to move. Even when the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 11,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Susan Sontag

Godard It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that, whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 10,2018 )