History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Terry Pratchett

HERE’S a werewolf with Pre-Lunar Tension in Ankfe-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude and a golem who’s begun to think for itself. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2007-02-01 | Author:Fry, Stephen [Fry, Stephen]

II Stanzaic Variations OPEN FORMS Tercets, quatrains and other stanzas–terza rima–ottava rima–rhyme royal–ruba’iyat–the Spenserian stanza A TERCET is a stanza of three lines, QUATRAINS come in fours, CINQUAINS in fives, ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Ben Yagoda [Yagoda, Ben]

Music fans of a certain advanced age will recognize these as mangled and ruined versions of the titles of some classic pop songs: “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “God ...
( Category: Puns & Wordplay March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Tony Horwitz [Horwitz, Tony]

10—LIBYA—Colonel's Big Con Woman is a female and man is a male. —MUAMMAR QADDAFI, The Green Book The summons came, like so many others, on a bad phone line in ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:David Grann [Grann, David]

In 1969, just before construction on the first stage of the third water tunnel began, Jimmy Ryan’s father took him below the streets. “When I was eighteen, he said, ‘Come ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

8 Style I: Depictions of Love When I was writing Atlas Shrugged, I spent a long time planning the scene where Francisco comes to Dagny in the country. Many issues ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-24 | Author:Stuart Gillespie & Philip Hardie [Gillespie]

Burke had already (mis)quoted DRN 3.28–30 in Pt. II, sec. V of his Philosophical Enquiry (1759), and Kant was intimately familiar with Burke’s ‘empirical’ and often Lucretian-sounding view of the ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

8 Style Style is a distinctive, characteristic mode of execution. This definition applies to nonfiction writing as well as to all other creative activities, and it encompasses everything pertaining strictly ...
( Category: Reference March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nikki Moustaki

This poem calls the reader to follow the speaker into the “poetic” pasture of the poem. We, as readers, are drawn in through the invitation and can’t help but to ...
( Category: Themes & Styles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-24 | Author:M. O. Grenby & Andrea Immel [Grenby, M. O. & Immel, Andrea]

Just as The Mill on the Floss depicts a heroine’s struggle with prevailing concepts of female intellectual frailty, so Ethel has to be reminded by Margaret that: ‘we all know ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Samuel Richardson [Richardson, Samuel]

Thursday. This morning my master came up to me, and talked with me on various subjects, for a good while together, in the most kind manner. Among other things, he ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2009-10-04 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

Chapter 5 A Sudden Resolution SHE WAS SITTING in the kitchen with her grandmother; they were both just going to bed. Relying on Nazar Ivanovitch, they had not locked themselves ...
( Category: Russian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1996-03-31 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER XXVII. The doctor's professional visit to Hintock House was promptly repeated the next day and the next. He always found Mrs. Charmond reclining on a sofa, and behaving generally ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1994-09-04 | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

There is a very good reason why the erotic side of Man has called forth so much more discussion lately than has his appetite for food. The reason is this: ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]

Chapter 4: In the Dark Where did he run to? But of course: “Where could she be if not with Fyodor Pavlovich? She ran straight to him from Samsonov’s, it’s ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 26,2014 )