Essays & Correspondence
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Laurie Lee [Lee, Laurie]

A Wake in Warsaw In the month of their worst weather – and the month also of their most melancholy historical memories – the Poles were paying tribute to Adam ...
( Category: Essays January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL Speaking of homes, I am building one now, and I venture to assert that very few homes have received more serious thought in the planning. Let me ...
( Category: Specific Topics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891 It was at Nuremberg that we struck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bayreuth. It had ...
( Category: Civil War January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Eavan Boland

Charlotte Mew: An Introduction I Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869. Her family—middle-class, respectable, afflicted— lived at number 30 Doughty Street in the borough of Camden. I lived ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Aaron Swartz [Swartz, Aaron]

Toward a Larger Left http://crookedtimber.org/2009/08/04/toward-a-larger-left/ August 4, 2009 Age 22 Stanford, like many universities, maintains full employment for humanities professors by requiring new students to take their seminars. My heart ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals January 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-11 | Author:Elizabeth Brown Pryor

General Robert E. Lee in 1863, photographed at the studio of Minnis and Cowell in Richmond. VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lee’s imposing appearance before the flaming Chancellor tavern was a classic ...
( Category: American Civil War January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Manea, Norman [Manea, Norman]

AN EXILE ON SEPTEMBER 11 AND AFTER That morning I was at Bard College, about one and a half hours from New York City. I was preparing my afternoon seminar, ...
( Category: Essays January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scottoline, Lisa [Scottoline, Lisa]

Color Me Mine I’m two months from getting the house painted, but I’m already fantasizing about paint colors. If the real estate classifieds are porn, paint chips are a kinky ...
( Category: Essays January 8,2016 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-19 | Author:Woolf, Virginia [Woolf, Virginia]

* * * [35] To quote the exact words of one such appeal: 'This letter is to ask you to set aside for us garments for which you have no ...
( Category: Essays January 8,2016 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part I Of Vice and Men Begin professional report and opinion here Insofar as we are able to be objective, here follows a brief physical ...
( Category: United States December 27,2015 )
epub, azw3 | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

Chapter 8 All these doubts, which I am now able to express more or less clearly, I could not have then explained. I then only felt that, despite the logical ...
( Category: Religious December 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Melissa Pritchard [Pritchard, Melissa; Johnston, Bret Anthony]

Guy Justly The dearly loved child Of Colonel Oliver and Mary Nicholls At Rosebank, Rosslyn 26th February, 1850 Aged 7 months “Of such is the kingdom of heaven” Certain names ...
( Category: General December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Geordie Williamson

Remote Control: Ten Years of Struggle and Success in Indigenous Australia Noel Pearson I I’ve been to many remote places in Australia, but this is entirely new to me. I ...
( Category: Specific Topics December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

BULKOREAN ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %202-733-3921; www.buldc.com; 2431 18th St NW; mains $10-20; h5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun; mWoodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan) BUL is DC's first pojangmacha ('covered wagon'), or Korean street-food eatery. ...
( Category: Atlases December 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-09 | Author:Santa Claus [Claus, Santa]

Dear Santa, I am sorry on how the way I acted this year. I’ve nown how bad I was, mad I was, and sad I was but you have some ...
( Category: Christmas December 18,2015 )