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The Rake (Regency 5) by Mary Jo Putney
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Mary Jo Putney

After a shrewd glance, he added, "Care to join me for breakfast?" Reggie winced, wishing he could beat a retreat without being unbearably rude. He was unshaven, coatless, grass-stained, and ...
( Category: Victorian October 8,2020 )
How to Speak Brit by Moore Christopher J
epub |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Moore, Christopher J. [Moore, Christopher J.]

WAGs (noun phrase) A frankly silly acronym and phrase coined by newspaper copy editors to describe the pampered wives and girlfriends of rich soccer players. On the subject of acronyms ...
( Category: Victorian August 7,2020 )
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:John Donne

So naked at this day, as though man there From paradise so great a distance were, As yet the news could not arrived be Of Adam’s tasting the forbidden tree, ...
( Category: Love Poems August 6,2020 )
CliffsNotes on Golding's Lord of the Flies by Maureen Kelly
epub |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Maureen Kelly

Chapter 8 Summary Ralph angers Jack by telling Piggy that even Jack would hide if the beast attacked them. In retaliation, Jack attempts his most serious mutiny yet, trying to ...
( Category: European August 6,2020 )
The Magic of Terry Pratchett by Marc Burrows
epub |eng | 2020-08-05 | Author:Marc Burrows

1. The name ‘sherbet lemons’ was inspired by a sweet shop he remembered from his childhood whose proprietor would always add a few extra sweets to each bag, once the ...
( Category: European August 6,2020 )
On Creaturely Life: Rilke Benjamin Sebald by Eric L. Santner
epub |eng | 2006-08-14 | Author:Eric L. Santner

II Against this background, it makes sense that the question of humor in Sebald’s work has been little discussed in the critical literature. One rightly wonders whether there is room ...
( Category: European August 6,2020 )
Modernism by Butler Christopher;
epub |eng | 2010-08-14 | Author:Butler, Christopher;

But you have to choose: to live or recount. This last sentence is the key to the existentialist liberation from a modernist aesthetic modelling of life - towards a kind ...
( Category: Modernism August 6,2020 )
Antony and Cleopatra by Deats Sara M.;
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Deats, Sara M.;

Nay, but this dotage of our Generals Ore-flowes the measure: those his goodly eyes That o’re the Files and Musters of the Warre, Haue glow’d like plated Mars: Now bend, ...
( Category: Shakespeare August 6,2020 )
Wonder by Vasalou Sophia
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Vasalou, Sophia

Nature here appears to us in the grandeur of its power, a raw vision of might that significantly registers in part as a scene of disorder, in which the order ...
( Category: Humanism August 6,2020 )
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Macbeth by Alex Went
epub |eng | 2010-04-19 | Author:Alex Went

Act III—Scene 2 Summary This short scene allows the audience once more into the private thoughts of the murderous couple, while holding the action momentarily in suspense. As the hired ...
( Category: Shakespeare August 6,2020 )
Portrait of Beatrice by Fabio Camilletti
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Fabio Camilletti

Chiaro dell’Erma’s Figura mistica is, in all respects, an icon: born out of an experience of vision, it aims precisely to represent the unrepresentable, so that its surface acts as ...
( Category: Women August 6,2020 )
J. M. Coetzee and Ethics by Anton Leist
epub |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Anton Leist

BARBARIANS: THROUGH TORTURE TO UNDERSTANDING As already stated, divergent positions are bound together under the label of experimental postmodernists. Besides the “archaic” postmodernists we could also distinguish the “pragmatist” ones. ...
( Category: Animal Rights August 6,2020 )
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature by Butler Erik Gumbrecht Hans
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Butler, Erik, Gumbrecht, Hans

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Caspar David Friedrich © akg-images Meadows Near Greifswald. Caspar David Friedrich © akg-images Before the middle of the twentieth century, such images of the ...
( Category: Literary Criticism August 5,2020 )
Modernist Commitments by Berman Jessica;
epub |eng | | Author:Berman, Jessica;

FOUR | Commitment and the Scene of War Max Aub and Spanish Civil War Writing Works of art are after-images or replicas of empirical life. —Adorno, Aesthetic Theory The future ...
( Category: United States August 5,2020 )
Meanwhile There Are Letters by Suzanne Marrs
epub |eng | 2015-06-03 | Author:Suzanne Marrs

CHAPTER SIX “I dreamed I was sending you the dream I was dreaming.” 1976 THE imminent publication of Ross Macdonald’s eighteenth Lew Archer novel, The Blue Hammer, had already been ...
( Category: United States August 5,2020 )

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