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The Poetry of Thought by George Steiner
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Steiner [Steiner, George]

Whoever is ultramodern and ascetic Will find Husserl most sympathetic. Though there is rumor going through the land He was someone Heidegger could never understand. Austria generates and experiences the ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add, that there is that in us which changes not, and which ranks all sensations and states ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Jane Smiley [Smiley, Jane]

2. Snorri Sturluson Egilssaga TRANS. BERNARD SCUDDER, IN THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS, ED. OBERT KELLOGG (1220-40; REPR., NEW YORK: PENGUIN, 2000), PP. 3-184. Egilssaga, the only saga for which we ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Sven Birkerts
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sven Birkerts [Birkerts, Sven]

I want to stay near this business of voice, the particular spanning of outer and inner that Bellow has fashioned to such a high art. For the voice was a ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
Letters of Anton Chekhov to his Family and Friends by Anton Chekhov
epub | | | Author:Anton Chekhov

* * * June 26. We are getting near Blagoveshtchensk. Be well and merry, and don't get used to being without me. No doubt you have already? Respectful greetings to ...
( Category: Letters March 26,2014 )
Music For Chameleons by Truman Capote
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Truman Capote [Capote, Truman]

TC: From what she told me, it seems the only explanation. JAKE: She doesn’t know what happened. She wasn’t there. She was sitting on her butt reading magazines. TC: Well, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Daniel Mendelsohn [Mendelsohn, Daniel]

III. CREATIVE WRITING AFTER WATERLOO WHAT NOVEL COULD be so essential that even the dead feel compelled to know what it’s about? At the beginning of Jean Giraudoux’s Bella (1926), ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
London fields by Martin Amis
epub, mobi | | 1991-02-14 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

Chapter 13: Little Did They Know s haped like A topheavy and lopsided stingray, elderly, oil-streaked, semi-transparent, and trailing its coil of feathery brown vapour, a dead cloud dropped out ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
The Big Bad City by Ed McBain
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-11-01 | Author:Ed McBain [McBain, Ed]

"No, sir, we're trying to find out who killed her." "Are you saying she got killed because I wouldn't give her the two thousand?" "We don't know why she got ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 26,2014 )
Fiddlers by Ed McBain
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-04-05 | Author:Ed McBain [McBain, Ed]

( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
The Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

* * * VISION I When I was a very young wife, I gave birth to a dead child, and came near to death myself. I recovered strength very slowly, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Sloane Crosley

AS TIME PASSED AND MORE OF OUR PEERS JOINED Zooey in the Active Uterus Club, I became less exempt from her wrath. Zooey’s prior embarrassment had been alleviated by the ...
( Category: Satire March 26,2014 )
Belle Weather by Rivenbark Celia
epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Rivenbark, Celia [Rivenbark, Celia]

17 Christmas at the “Urgent” Care If you plan to travel with children during the holidays, there’s about a one-zillion-percent chance that you’ll spend at least some part of “the ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:David Sedaris [Sedaris, David]

Christmas Means Giving For the first twelve years of our marriage Beth and I happily set the neighborhood standard for comfort and luxury. It was an established fact that we ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Fraud: Essays by David Rakoff
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-28 | Author:David Rakoff [Rakoff, David]

I had arrived here thinking of that oft told urban myth of the man who, newly diagnosed with cancer, checks himself into a hotel room for the weekend with videotapes ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )

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