Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2009-12-27 | Author:Joseph A. Altsheler [Altsheler, Joseph A.]

"I'm going to do so right away. Don't bother yourself about me, George. My nerves have been strained pretty hard, and I had to wait until they were quiet until ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Vowell

Early in 2016, Obama invited a group of African American leaders to meet with him at the White House. When some of the activists affiliated with Black Lives Matter refused ...
( Category: United States March 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heather O'Neill [Heather O’Neill]

LESSON 8 Crime Does Pay WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, my dad had been a great criminal. He was very proud of these years. Not having pursued a life of crime ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Michael Gustafson

I want to love you like no one else can love you. like a tree needs light, like a flower needs water, like a beach needs sand, there are not ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 27,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Bly

FIVE ONE-TWO MAN Once upon a time there was a boy who was living with his grandmother, the father having died some years before, and his mother seemingly gone, perhaps ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Charles Mackay

3 The Tulipomania Quis furor ō cives! Lucan The tulip, so named, it is said, from a Turkish word, signifying a turban – was introduced into western Europe about the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 26,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1845-03-25 | Author:Long, George, 1780-1868. [from old catalog]

elevation of mind enable a man to behold without some degree of dissatisfaction and uneasiness another stepping before him whose qualifications he knows to be very inferior to his own. ...
( Category: Music March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

VILLAGE After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the ...
( Category: United States March 25,2018 )
epub |est | 2016-04-14 | Author:Ernst Jünger [Jünger, Ernst]

At the same time, this relationship suggests a weakness in us, namely, that the whole is only comprehensible to us through the sequential nature of life. Initially we also perceive ...
( Category: European March 24,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Charles M. Schulz

Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975), 157–80. A Career in Cartooning There is no form ...
( Category: Comic Strips March 24,2018 )
epub | | 2010-05-22 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A FAN THE other day, one who had bought a copy of Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove, which appeared in a series entitled „Isaac ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Keats, John

In drear nighted December In drear nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity – The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle through ...
( Category: Poetry March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Quincey, Thomas de

Some feelings, though not deeper or more passionate, are more tender than others; and often when I walk, at this time, in Oxford Street by dreamy lamp-light, and hear those ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-05 | Author:Vassilis Vassilikos

He saw them coming from a distance, like two scarecrows. His burned property still smelled of smoke. The few tufts of green that had survived on the trees seemed absurd ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-22 | Author:Daniel J. Mahoney

STOLYPIN’S VISIONARY PROGRAM After his confrontation with the State Council and Duma over the western zemstvo bill, Stolypin set out to confront the enemy from within, the intransigent bureaucracy that ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 22,2018 )