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The Doll by Bolesław Prus
azw3 |eng | 1890-01-01 | Author:Bolesław Prus [Prus, Bolesław]

XXII Grey Days and Baneful Hours WITHIN fifteen minutes of leaving Warsaw by the Bydgoszcz railroad, Wokulski felt two peculiar, though completely different sensations: he was enveloped in fresh air, ...
( Category: Anthropology October 19,2021 )
Selected Poems by D.H. Lawrence
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-28 | Author:D.H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D.H.]

The negro might know a little. When the vine was rose, Gods were dark-skinned. Bacchus is a dream’s dream. Once God was all negroid, as now he is fair. But ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
azw3 |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

Ten days later, on 25 August 1780, the Company’s largest concentration of troops in southern India finally marched out of Madras and headed south along the coast road towards Kanchipuram ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca Lamb
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-14 | Author:Rebecca Lamb [Lamb, Rebecca]

Belgrade IX We grew eager to leave Belgrade, and start on the trip we were to take with Constantine through Macedonia and Old Serbia, though nothing unpleasant was happening to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:J.G. Ballard [Ballard, J.G.]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE SUMMER CANNIBALS Locus Solus. Through the dust-covered windscreen she watched him walk along the beach. Despite the heat he had been wandering about by himself for half ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 19,2021 )
Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
azw3 |eng | 1982-10-12 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]

VI The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:William Gaddis

—Jack Preswig. Look at that. Sincerely yours, Jack Preswig. They’ve put the whole case in the hands of some flunky who’s probably not even . . . —You find your ...
( Category: Asian Cooking, Food & Wine October 19,2021 )
The Collected Stories of Machado De Assis by Machado de Assis
azw3 |eng | 2018-01-01 | Author:Machado de Assis

Author’s Preface Of all the stories found herein there are only two that effectively contain no explicit date; all the others do, and this will cause some readers to find ...
( Category: Almanacs & Yearbooks October 19,2021 )
The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Carl Schmitt [Schmitt, Carl]

The complete inventory of this system of antitheses and their possible combinations is contained in the 1814 treatise by Benjamin Constant. He maintains that we are in an age which ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
The Snopes Trilogy by William Faulkner
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

IXTEEN CHARLES MALLISON This is what Ratliff said happened up to where Uncle Gavin could see it. It was January, a gray day though not cold because of the fog. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Max Porter [Porter, Max]

DAD Such a bad joke, bad dream, bad poem, so different, this cr cr cr cr cr e ak, ik e y, evice, ea tor. Cr Cr cr y ying ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
The Complete Poems of John Donne by John Donne
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:John Donne [Donne, John]

Upon the Annunciation when Good Friday Fell upon the Same Day Date and Context. Probably c. 25 March 1608, as the scribe of the ancestral copy of Group III thought, ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]

A couple of summers ago I was walking along the edge of the island to see what I could see in the water, and mainly to scare frogs. Frogs have ...
( Category: Almanacs & Yearbooks October 19,2021 )
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:N.K. Jemisin

15 you’re among friends YOU REACH “THE PLACE WITH all the orogenes,” and it’s not at all what you were expecting. It’s abandoned, for one thing. It’s not a comm, ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )

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