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In PDF format. An early Greek tragedy. Absolutely free for downloading, reading, printing and passing on.
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This is a multilayered satire of book collectors and hostile critics and the fin de siecle reading audience who had responded unenthusiastically to most of Chesnutt's work.
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Old English poetry in translation. This text is the Grummere verse translation.
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A collection of the prose fiction by nineteenth-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
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The autobiography of Moll Flanders, woman of the world.
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Dostoyevsky's fascinating work of a nameless narrator exploring religious, social and moral themes that would come to be expressed in his later novels.
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In PDF format. Literary Criticism starts here. Excellent book for analyzing Greek drama and theatrical structure.
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The story of a boy and his mongoose.
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In PDF format. Early Greek tragedy. Free to download.
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A masterful piece of Plato-istic dialogue, putting Wilde's severe wit and intimidating intellectualism on full display.
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In PDF format. The third installment of the Oresteia trilogy.
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The humorous narrative in eleven books by Lucius Apuleius.
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Advice for writers interested in publishing their work.
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Douglass was such an impressive orator that numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave, so he wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. During the Civil War he assisted in recruiting African Americans for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves.
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A translation and collection of Jean Louis Schefer's research from the late 1960s and early 1970s into efforts aimed at redefining the nature of traditional intellectual disciplines by way of a change in methodologies and epistemologies.
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This chapter introduces Schefer's work, because the essay can be considered as a kind of foundation stone for much of the rest of the work.
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The following very general article on figuration, although not published until 1979, both arises from and leads to Schefer's book on Paolo Uccello's Universal Deluge (1976).
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"Thanatography/Skiagraphy" constitutes an adumbration of how the figure of death "splits" representation, or of how death can be figured only at the interstices of the body and in the body's articulations with other objects.
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The following translation is taken from Le Déluge, la peste, Paolo Uccello (1976), a book dedicated to one of Uccello's frescoes known as The Universal Deluge and in which Schefer elaborates more fully on Uccello's resistance to the ideologies of his time.
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The essay translated here, "Someone Writing," expresses Schefer's peculiar concern for the difficult place and indeed the difficult experience of the practice writing.
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The recent pages about a photograph of his mother, about his "little girl," perhaps constituted for the first time the words of a man no longer driven by anything except the mystery of profundity and the origin of an enigma.
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"Light and Its Prey" is a complete translation of a 1980 book which was originally conceived and commissioned in 1979 as the commentary for a film by Thierry Kunzel's workshop.
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This chapter on cinema is a mixture of translations from two different but roughly contemporaneous sources: the book L'Homme ordinaire du cinéma (1980c), and a special issue of the journal Ça Cinéma, "L'Image, la mort, la mémoire" (1980d).
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For the members of my family; for all the families whose young men did not have the privilege of coming home from Israel's wars; for all the parents, who hold the greatest treasure of all -- their sons; and of course, for the sons themselves; and for all those people for whom human life is the ultimate value...
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The sections of a diary kept regularly since June 6, 1982.
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Sections of a diary kept regularly since June 6, 1982.
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Letters to and from family, friends, and acquaintances.
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Letters to artists, journalists and religious figures.
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Testimony to important events which occurred during the period between the Lebanon War and the Intifada.
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A listing of dreams and their interpretations.
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Links to related sites.
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Letters to family members.
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The letters and stories of families affected by the incident at the Beaufort.
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In his own words, Franklin's life as a printer, inventor, scientist, and politician, with an introduction, a timeline and related links.
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A timeline of notable events in Franklin's life.
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Charles W. Eliot's introduction to the 1909 edition.
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In his own words, Franklin's life as a printer, inventor, scientist, and politician, with an introduction, a timeline and related links.
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From The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by his son, Francis Darwin.
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Takes man's relation to nature and man's dilemma in society and man's capacity for elevating his spirit and beats all these matters together.
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It is quite fair to say that I became a Socialist in a fashion somewhat similar to the way in which the Teutonic pagans became Christians--it was hammered into me.
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Letters, diaries, poems, stories by Yaron Zamir, son of Ramah & Yehoshua, member of Kibbutz Ein Dor, soldier in the 1982 Lebanese War. Words about Yaron by family and friends.
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