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epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Jón Gnarr

BOOZE From then on, the physical abuse at the hands of kids in my neighborhood got worse. They sometimes stopped me on school grounds, held me down, and demanded: “Why ...
( Category: German May 25,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marcel Proust

* * * As for the disconcerting mention, on the last page of the “seventy-five folios,” of the Christ in St. Mark’s, Venice, looking “effeminate, Oriental, and bizarre, his gesture ...
( Category: French May 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Schimmel [Schimmel]

But how to describe the One God whom the poet-philosopher knows through His prophet and the imams? In the Rawshanā’īnāma, Nāṣir begins his discourse with a tawḥīd, a poetical praise ...
( Category: British & Irish April 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Ann Bridge [Ann Bridge]

he declaimed as he came up to her. ‘Do you know that?’ he went on, after a glance at her face. ‘I always think it stamps Kate Greenaway as one ...
( Category: British & Irish March 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Winston S. Churchill, James W. Muller [Winston S. Churchill, James W. Muller]

IN THE AIR In the Air Except for the year 1916, I was continually in control of one or the other branch of the Air Service during the first eleven ...
( Category: British & Irish March 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Courtney Q. Shah [Shah, Courtney Q.]

Chapter Five Sex Education in the American Expeditionary Force Dr. George Walker, a colonel in the Army Medical Corps, published a report in 1922 about venereal disease and sexuality during ...
( Category: Eastern March 6,2023 )
epub |eng | 1995-03-15 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Robert Louis Stevenson]

25. THE RETURN OF JAMES MORE I WAS CALLED on the morrow out of a late and troubled slumber by a knocking on my door, ran to open it, and ...
( Category: British & Irish March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-20 | Author:J. Milton (John Milton) Mackie [Mackie, J. Milton]

XXVII. HAMSAD BEY. * * * The manner of Schamyl's escape and recovery from the wounds received at Himri never having been explained by himself, was believed by the mountaineers ...
( Category: British & Irish February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Frieda Johles Forman [Frieda Johles Forman, ed.]

Doctor Marek Bloch stepped over the threshold. Narrow, cunning eyes measured him from head to foot. His face and hands were scratched and bloodied by stones and twigs. His clothes ...
( Category: German February 21,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Boye, Karin [Boye, Karin]

II THE ELF DAGUR SINGS ABOUT FATE In the world's tree nine days sacrificed he hung - so pale I never saw any, god or man - erect, with relentless ...
( Category: Scandinavian February 21,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-09-20 | Author:Nachoem M. Wijnberg

In a Dream In a dream I write a poem and just before I wake up I have already lost the first lines. When I wake up I only have ...
( Category: German February 16,2023 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:C. S. Lewis

P.S. I never read St John of the Cross. TO JOHN H. MCCALLUM (P): The Kilns, Headington Quarry Oxford 16 Nov. 1961 Dear Mac I refused the proposal to S.C.B.193 ...
( Category: European August 6,2020 )