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... imperial agents welcomed the trends , since these represented power . The ... Codex of Justinian in 529 . His revisers excised everything in the old laws ... imperial power over the church . Compe- tent and strong - willed , she took a ...

The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s—and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”—featuring the original artwork by ...

Appearing in ebook at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean ...

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales Robert ... to his private secretary. I shall be sorry to lose you; but since you cannot ... eyes, and he gazed on Lady Vandeleur with a tender reproach. “My Lady," said he ...

... royal diaries give the following account of his disease : On the eighteenth of the month of Daesius he slept in the ... diaries was kept throughout Alexander's campaign , recording events day by day . Whether the account of Alexander's ...

Moving beyond standard texts by English and American thinkers, this collection features primary source material from around the globe, including short works of fiction and drama, political manifestos, and the work of less well-known writers ...

William James. Life on the Mississippi GORE VIDAL Lincoln VOLTAIRE Candide and Philosophical Letters PHYLLIS CERF WAGNER AND HERBERT WISE, EDITORS Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural IZAAK WALTON AND CHARLES COTTON The Compleat ...

... Bingo ! " THEORY FIRST ? Sherlock Holmes could look at a perfect stranger and from one insignifi- cant feature or two spin a convincing description of the stranger's profes- sion , his past , and even his character . ANOTHER ANGLE OF ...

... script editor and assistant producer on films by Paul Greengrass , Lee Hall ... many successful productions including Oedipus , The Slab Boys Trilogy , Grimm ... Much Ado About Nothing in Berlin , Hansel and Gretel for Opera North and ...

... I have just come from Johannes Müller's funeral. (When will my urn be buried ... I hear similar opinions so often now.— [...] April 25, Easter Sunday morning The ... survive after all. [...] According to its doorplate the Willy Schlüter ...

... Farewell, my lovely II. Title. III. Title: Big sleep. IV. Title: Farewell, my lovely. PS3505.H3224A6 1995 813′.52—dc20 94-44401 Modern Library website address: www.modernlibrary.com v3.1 RAYMOND CHANDLER Raymond Chandler—often referred ...

... Burton Raffel , trans . , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . New York : Signet , 2001 . Elizabeth Ann Robertson and Stephen H. A. Shepherd , eds . , Piers Plowman . New York : Norton , 2000 . William Vantuono , ed . and trans . , Pearl ...

... Haemon) and you, from him. You've both argued well. CREON: Am I, at my age, now about to be taught how to think by a ... argument of yours is all for her. HAEMON: Yes CREON: You can't marry her, ever—not while she's alive. 75o HAEMON ...

In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantôme de l’opéra, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the ...

Including these stories from the magazine's most iconic writers: “The Five-Fourty-Eight” by John Cheever “Distant Music” by Ann Beattle “Sailor off the Bremen” by Irwin Shaw “Physics” by Tama Janowitz “The Whore of ...

... era from a four-foot fossil jawbone captured by the French republican army during its sweep of the Netherlands's ... pair of English naturalists, William Buckland and Gideon Mantell. WHEN GIANTS WALKED IN ENGLAND Buckland was a boisterous ...

Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers Arnold Krupat, Brian Swann. THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY of Me SHERMAN ALEXIE The Spokane / Coeur d'Alene writer Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 on ... The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me.

... armory of God , where stand of old Myriads between two brazen mountains ... world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice : him all his train Followed in ... darkness profound Covered th ' Paradise Lost : Book VII . 483.

... Anne Lamott , Bird by Bird , 172 . P. 107 " When I started ... " Allan Gurganus , in Writers Dreaming , 100 . P. 108 " When , in real life ... " Edith Wharton , in The Craft of Fiction , 74-75 . P. 108 " It is so easy ... " Anthony ...

... chords of guitar and mandoline from gondola or caique? Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking ... deep-sea fishings he heard tell,

To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task–yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson brilliantly accomplishes it in London: A History.

... quotes is a German cliché . 16 Quoted from Tell's famous monologue in Schiller's Wilhelm Tell , Act IV , Scene 3. Schiller had earlier translated Macbeth into German and was , no doubt , influenced by " the milk of human kindness ...

These marvelous essays were written by men and women who were not only on hand to witness wine’s boom but, in many cases, helped to foster the environment that made it thrive.

The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with ... us from the outset . Unlike the population of , say , New York , Geneva , or ... heartland people from every part of southeastern Europe lived together in peace ...

Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

Interviews with National Book ... my brothers took it out any number of times ; and when I finally took it out ... life . DO : I bet you did in your diaries . AM : Exactly . And that's probably where and when fiction began to be appealing to me ...

The enduring genius of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky shines through in this special eBook collection that includes four classic Russian novels—each one recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

Presents Whitman's classic poem celebrating himself and the American experience.

In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world ...

Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between ...

... vestiduras blancas, como sobrepellices, i algunas cerradas por delante, los braços defuera, confluecos de algodon en las orillas. Unos llevaban figuras de ídolos en las manos, otros sahumerios; otros tocaban cornetas, atabalejos, i ...

These stories are windows into the lives of everyday people in an unforgiving city, who find solidarity and hope in the most unexpected places.

Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900.

... parrot a long time to learn phrases . When we know the vindictiveness which ... trick of repeating the multiplication table means noth- ing except it shows ... parrot . For several minutes they listened in silence . There was a flood of ...

Charles Dickens. AUTHOR'S. NOTES. A FEW FRAGMENTS of this Introduction to A Christmas Carol first appeared in the same essay (“In Defense of Sentimentality”) that The New York Times Book Review published on November 25, 1979, but that essay ...