Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2016-07-29 | Author:Georges Simenon
Tuesday, 3 January 1961 11 o’clock in the morning It’s raining. The children are making music in the playroom. D. is in her boudoir. The secretaries are back in the ...
( Category:
World Literature
August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Robin Black
Varieties of Fiction When my then-fourteen-year-old daughter asked if she could read my newly published collection of stories, I hesitated, because of her language-based disabilities. Several of the pieces involve ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Roy Blount [Blount, Roy]
THOUGHT SHE WAS EVE We were good together, Nothing up our sleeve. She didn’t know me from Adam And I thought she was Eve. Those were the those were the ...
( Category:
Humor
August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Anne Fadiman
One of the most popular oracles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages was the sortes Vergilianae, in which the petitioner opened a copy of the Aeneid and chose a ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
August 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Edmund Burke [Burke, Edmund]
Address to the British Colonists in North America In deeply moving terms Burke tried in 1777 to convince the colonists that they should not sever their relationship with Britain and ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:William Boyd [Boyd, William]
pumped by its own fetishism, by billionaires competing in the auction room like mountain goats clashing horns over possession of a crag or a mate. What has made his criticism ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Alan Bristow
CHAPTER 16 World Expansion In the 1950s the aviation industry in Britain had begun to coalesce into two camps – the government-supported publicly subsidised airlines BEA and BOAC, and the ...
( Category:
Historical
August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Lizzie Skurnick [Skurnick, Lizzie]
EXTRA CREDIT Are You in the House Alone? By Richard Peck 1976 Can You Hear Me Now? Without exaggeration, I can say with confidence that any child of the 1970s ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]
Freudian Autopsy upon a Genius From the American Mercury, June, 1931, pp. 251–52. A review of THE POLISH HERITAGE OF JOSEPH CONRAD, By Gustaf Morf (Richard R. Smith); New York, ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:H.L. Mencken [Mencken, H.L.]
The Boon of Culture From the American Mercury, Sept., 1931, pp. 36–48 EVERY American college president, it appears, is in duty bound to write and utter at least one book ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-20 | Author:Ruth Gruber [Gruber, Ruth]
the voice of no age or sex, the voice of an ancient spring spouting from the earth; which issued, just opposite Regent’s Park Tube Station, from a tall quivering shape, ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Benn, Tony [Benn, Tony]
9 1976–79 Thursday 1 April 1976 THE HS-125 was waiting at Prestwick Airport with my old friend Captain Dan Thomas, and I flew with John Hill, Bryan Emmett, and Bernard ...
( Category:
Leaders & Notable People
August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Pierre Michon [Michon, Pierre]
The Life of Father Foucault It was the beginning of summer, in the early seventies, in Clermont-Ferrand. My brief sojourn into the world of theater was coming to an end; ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Anne Fadiman [Fadiman, Anne]
My own power mower, George, does not understand the thrill of such discoveries.. He does not think me a lovable helpmeet when I wander past his computer screen and find ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1977-08-28 | Author:Selected Essays (epub)
François Villon Astronomers accurately predict the return of a comet after a long interval of time. For those who know Villon, the phenomenon of Verlaine presents just such an astronomic ...
( Category:
World Literature
August 28,2017 )
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