Essays & Correspondence
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Rainer Maria Rilke [Rilke, Rainer Maria]

Furuborg, Jonsered, Sweden, 4 November 1904 My dear Mr Kappus, During this time that has passed without a letter I was partly travelling and partly too busy to be able ...
( Category: German July 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roberts, Andrew

While the British were in headlong retreat in the Far East and struggling to survive in the North African desert, the main way they were able to strike back at ...
( Category: Letters July 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

REIF: Ernst Bloch† recently pointed out in a lecture that the student protest movement is not confined to its known objectives but contains principles derived from the old natural law: ...
( Category: German July 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Cockburn, Anne-Marie [Cockburn, Anne-Marie]

Thursday 12th September: Day 54 I’ve started to live my life in segments. I break a little piece off and digest it; today’s segment is entitled ‘starting to clear my ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]

Back to the Books What does all this have to do with writing? It’s a fair question, in that you don’t buy this magazine and read articles like this with ...
( Category: Essays June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche wants the eternity of this life with all its agonies —and seeing that it flees, its eternal recurrence. As it is expressed in sections 9, 10, and 11, the ...
( Category: Modern June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Berry, Wendell

IN SPITE OF the unrelenting destructiveness of the larger economy, the Amish—as Hostetler points out with acknowledged surprise and respect—have almost doubled in population in the last twenty years. The ...
( Category: Essays June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-25 | Author:Dominick Dunne [Dunne, Dominick]

The Women of Palm Beach PALM BEACH people talk about Palm Beach people constantly. It is a subject that never seems to exhaust itself, and any one of them, at ...
( Category: Rich & Famous June 21,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-06-06 | Author:Julie Garwood

* * * Chapter Seven Contents - Prev | Next He never touched her. One second she was staring at his ugly expression and the next she was looking at ...
( Category: Essays June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-25 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

4. What Is a Novelist? To Understand, We Must Compare WHEN HERMANN BROCH WANTED TO BLOCK out a character, he first seized on the character’s essential position and then progressed ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft [Wollstonecraft, Mary]

SECTION 5.3. Such paternal solicitude pervades Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, that I enter on the task of criticism with affectionate respect; but as this little volume has many ...
( Category: History & Theory June 4,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Desiderius Erasmus

End of Project Gutenberg's The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRAISE OF FOLLY *** This file should be named 8efly10.txt or ...
( Category: Essays June 4,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:James Wood [Wood, James]

80 In fact, the ubiquitous flat character of the English novel, from Mr. Collins to Charles Ryder’s father, tells us something deep about the dialectic of British reticence and sociability, ...
( Category: Fiction June 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ellen Fitzpatrick [Fitzpatrick, Ellen]

Yours sincerely, Dora W. Wildesen * * * John F. Kennedy was the first American President born in the twentieth century. At forty-three years of age, he was also the ...
( Category: Letters May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Orson Scott Card

7. In short… Breeding for size used to be important. People needed big, strong children to work the fields, fend off dangerous predators, and beat out the neighboring tribe for ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 27,2014 )