The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow By J K J Contents On the art of making up one's mind. On the disadvantage of not getting what one wants. On the exceptional merit attaching to the things we me...
This is a memorable collection of historical legends and folktales from Japan. Nearly all of them are set in a well-defined time and place, instead of 'once upon a time.' Themes include ghosts; unr...
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Strictly Business More Stories of the Four Million by O Henry
CONTENTS I. STRICTLY BUSINESS II. THE GOLD THAT GLITTERED III. BABES IN THE JUNGLE IV. THE DAY RESURGENT V. THE FIFTH WHE...
J. M. Coetzee WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS First published in 1980
For Nicolas and Gisela
1 I HAVE NEVER SEEN anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of ...
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Paris, 1922 Views from the Real World Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Chicago As Recollected by His Pupils
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This Dutton Paperback...
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Paris, 1922 Views from the Real World Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Chicago As Recollected by His Pupils
Introduction
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This Dutton Paperback...
My Life
Leon Trotsky
1930
Contents
Notes on the Text Foreword 1 YANOVKA 2 OUR NEIGHBORS AND MY FIRST SCHOOL 3 ODESSA: MY FAMILY AND MY SCHOOL 4 BOOKS AND EARLY CONFLICTS 5 COUNTRY AND TOWN 6 T...
THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW. by JEROME K. JEROME.
TO THE VERY DEAR AND WELL-BELOVED FRIEND OF MY PROSPEROUS AND EVIL DAYS-TO THE FRIEND WHO, THOUGH IN THE EARLY STAGES OF OUR ACQUAINTANCES...
My Life
Leon Trotsky
1930
Contents
Notes on the Text Foreword 1 YANOVKA 2 OUR NEIGHBORS AND MY FIRST SCHOOL 3 ODESSA: MY FAMILY AND MY SCHOOL 4 BOOKS AND EARLY CONFLICTS 5 COUNTRY AND TOWN 6 T...
Alchemical allegories
Alchemical texts often use elaborate extended allegories as a means of communicating key philosophical points, or to illustrate a particular alchemical process. In these alleg...
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CHAPTER ONE
MISS MATHILDA HOCKERSNICKLER of Upper Little Puddlepatch sat at her half opened window. The book she was reading attracted her whole attention. A funeral cortege went by without her s...