Essays & Correspondence
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Alma Alexander

Much later in the book, Qiaan finds herself being used as a puppet figurehead ‘leading’ a revolution against the crown – something that Xaforn, as one of the Imperial Guard, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Alistair Cooke

The Presidential Ear 8 December 1978 The newspapers and the television commentators have just paid their annual respects – or regrets – to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on ...
( Category: Elections March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Edmund White [EDMUND WHITE]

And all this a decade before Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp,” in which she spoke of camp as an effort to rescue failed glamour. There were many reasons Isherwood’s ...
( Category: Authors March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:John Davie & Robert Cowan [Davie, John & Cowan, Robert]

( Category: Letters March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:David Rakoff

Walk This Way State legislators were called back to Albany from their summer vacations for an emergency economic session to make ready for a lean stint that David A. Paterson, ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Gregory

CHAPTER 6 Humility Who Would You Be if You Lost Your Job? How do you tell your children you’ve lost your job? That’s a question I asked myself many times ...
( Category: Religious March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-16 | Author:Unknown

MONKFISH SALAD WITH MUSHROOMS AND PICKLED CHERRIES The idea for this recipe comes from a refreshing and unusual cookery book, Le Menu Gastronomique (Macdonald), by a doctor who won the ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Siân Price

( Category: Afghan War March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Robinson Jeffers [Jeffers, Robinson]

XIII It is certain that too violent Self-control is unlucky, it attracts hard events As height does lightning; so Thurso rode up the canyon with a little death in himself, ...
( Category: Modernism March 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1943-02-28 | Author:Camille Pissarro [Pissarro, Camille]

36.—C. Pissarro: Peasant Girl, about 1885. 37.—C. Pissarro: Little Peasant Girl, about 1885. ERAGNY, JANUARY 10, 1892 My dear Lucien, Yesterday I had Joseph Durand at the house, he came ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 1,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Bill Watkins

Just before the start of the next short day, I take a walk around the narrow stone-laid streets of the picturesque town. Lerwick looks like it grew from the living ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Talbot Mundy

After five minutes he shouted for Tugendheim, and the German went down the slope visibly annoyed by the four guards who kept their bayonets within a yard of his back. ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:GLORIA VANDERBILT

A R ED ROSE Sinatra had ringie-dinged away on his tours, attentively calling from Australia, Hawaii, Las Vegas, wherever. He was on my mind, but not as much as the ...
( Category: Women March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Thomas Schuttenhelm [Thomas Schuttenhelm]

* Following Britten’s dedication of Curlew River to Tippett for his 60th birthday. David Ayerst Tippett was introduced to David Ayerst (1904–92) in 1927 by Aubrey Russ, Tippett’s flatmate in ...
( Category: Music March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-26 | Author:Ashok Sanjay Guha [Guha, Ashok Sanjay]

THE PROFIT-MAXIMIZING MONOPOLIST Unlike the horizontal demand curve of the perfect competitor, the monopolist’s demand curve slopes downward. He has no rivals whose markets he can invade without reducing his ...
( Category: Economics March 1,2020 )