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Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2013-06-29 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

TO MRS. EMERSON (AT CONCORD). Staten Island, October 16, 1843. MY dear Friend, — I promised you some thoughts long ago, but it would be hard to tell whether these ...
( Category: Anthologies April 27,2017 )
Bhujia Barons: The Untold Story of How Haldiram Built a Rs 5000-crore Empire by Pavitra Kumar
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Pavitra Kumar [Kumar, Pavitra]

Capital Gains In the search for ways to fulfil basic human needs over the millennia, mankind has evolved from being early hunters and gatherers to sophisticated bankers, engineers and doctors. ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship April 13,2017 )
Letters to a Young Writer by Colum McCann
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Colum McCann

The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time. —LORRIE ...
( Category: Letters April 7,2017 )
The World of Jimmy Breslin by Breslin Jimmy
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Breslin, Jimmy [Breslin, Jimmy]

7 In Which He Sees the Dark Side of Life BRESLIN DEALS IN EMOTIONS the way some columnists deal in issues. They are the stuff of his writing and his ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 6,2017 )
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

Between the night and the morning of April 3–4, in 1967, a Marine, Michael E. Kroll, was murdered on West 3rd Street, in Greenwich Village. He was killed, according to ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

8. In Search of a Majority: An Address I AM SUPPOSED TO SPEAK THIS evening on the goals of American society as they involve minority rights, but what I am ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

In black and white: the late James Edwards, and Lloyd Bridges, in the long-ago Home of the Brave, love each other, as friends must, and as men do. But the ...
( Category: Movies March 28,2017 )
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Tim Wu

Eventually, one thing led to another. “Of course, I had no idea what I was saying; much of what I said was based on what I had seen on General ...
( Category: Direct March 22,2017 )
The Best American Essays 2016 by Jonathan Franzen
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Franzen

When Elizabeth and I reached our hotel in Alajuela, we walked into the reception area and gave our names to the man at the desk. In a barely audible voice ...
( Category: Anthologies March 22,2017 )
Mortals and Others (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:Bertrand Russell

* * * HOW PEOPLE ECONOMISE When a family has less money than it used to have, it has to settle in what directions to economise. The choice which people ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2017 )
Sweet Theft by J.D. McClatchy
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:J.D. McClatchy

- “ ‘I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct character, which I call unexpectedness.’ “ ...
( Category: General March 22,2017 )
I Thought My Father Was God by Paul Auster
epub |eng | 2017-02-26 | Author:Paul Auster

CHRISTMAS MORNING, 1949 A LIGHT DRIZZLE WAS FALLING as my sister Jill and I ran out of the Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents Santa ...
( Category: United States March 22,2017 )
Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Winterson, Jeanette]

And it is exactness. Art always dresses for dinner. Does this seem stuffy in the jeans and T-shirt days of popular culture? Perhaps, but without a formal space art cannot ...
( Category: Criticism March 19,2017 )
On Tennis: Five Essays by David Foster Wallace
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:David Foster Wallace [Wallace, David Foster]

you can see them, Them, coming, an enormous serpentine mass, the crowd, still at 1615h. coming, what looks from this distance like everybody in New York City who hasn’t retreated ...
( Category: Racket Sports March 17,2017 )
Upstream by Mary Oliver
epub |eng | 2016-09-21 | Author:Mary Oliver

5. Poe’s work is exquisitely and opulently constructed; the narratives have a fascination that is a sure-hold—a quality that, for lack of another word, one might simply call entertainment. They ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2017 )

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