epub |eng | 2009-11-04 | Author:J. R. Ackerley

February 13th ALMOST every morning now, and sometimes in the late afternoon, Narayan, the young Guest House clerk, comes in to see me. ‘I may come in?’ his soft voice ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Wittman

An assault gun with the SS Division Totenkopf—the “Death’s Head” Division—speeds through the Soviet Union at the start of Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-136-0882-12/Albert Cursian) ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:John Woolman [Aeschylus, Sophocles]

CHAPTER IX Table of Contents His religious Conversation with a Company met to see the Tricks of a Juggler —His Account of John Smith's Advice, and of the Proceedings of ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-19 | Author:John Quincy Adams [Adams, John Quincy]

5. VI. The arrears of my Journal are a continual pressure upon me. I shall probably be very soon compelled to change my plan, and to notice the Events of ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-23 | Author:John Sellars

Here Marcus draws a threefold division between (i) necessary fate (heimarmenê), (ii) providence (pronoia) that can assist, and (iii) blind chaos. He goes on to say that if fate is ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-30 | Author:Craft, Samantha [Craft, Samantha]

87. Note to the Little One My wounded one, I see you . I see you there crying alone. I see you with your hands pressed against your fragile skin; ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:

[From notebook 23] Sunday, September 11. Went to the farmer’s market. Bought some bread and milk. Went with A. I. to Mostorg, got a price for my cigarette case (33 ...

epub |eng | 1941-07-15 | Author:Shirer, William L [Shirer, William L]

BERLIN, April 10 It is plain from what I have heard today that Hitler and the High Command expected Norway to give up without a scrap. Now that it hasn’t, ...

epub |eng | 1941-06-15 | Author:Shirer, William L. [Shirer, William L.]

BERLIN, April 10 It is plain from what I have heard today that Hitler and the High Command expected Norway to give up without a scrap. Now that it hasn’t, ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Gail Godwin [Godwin, Gail]

And that’s about it. James came by bringing a Christmas gift, a Scots beret. We spent Xmas Eve Day together, inflicting our silences on each other. The upshot of all ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Hans Fallada [Fallada, Hans]

Notes 1. Incorrectly dated: the Reichstag burned down on 27 February 1933. Fallada had to rely entirely on memory when writing these reminiscences, so there are occasional errors and misdatings. ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Christian, Royal A.; McDaniels III, Pellom;

Royal A. Christian’s Consular registration card dated September 23, 1918. As a US citizen living in England, Christian had to provide information related to his occupation, his employer, and the ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Suad Amiry

9 A Dog’s Life 1987–95 It was one of those rare moments when I could easily have killed someone. But to kill Dr. Hisham, the only vet in Ramallah (probably ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Gideon Welles [Welles, Gideon]

1. The article in the Chronicle was entitled “Deficiency of Men in the Service.” In his letter, Welles claimed that the recent enrollment act passed by Congress was operating to ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Jean Giono & Jody Gladding

January 28 Our Communist revolutionaries are also aesthetes, although they’ll join the fight if necessary (Malraux in Spain); fighting is part of their aesthetic. They have intelligence but not conviction. ...