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...ven realize their predicament to their utter horror. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_221a.html http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...ench royals employed lace, hardy Vikings - wool, Romans resorted to the sponge. The Chinese, ahead of the times in 1391, were the first to use paper... ...e, exercise, physical or sexual prowess and "conquests"). Narcissists are either "Classic" - see definition here ( http://samvak.tripod.com/npdgla... ...http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/4/4-694.html http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_250 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EtymologyOfOkay http... ... means, in French, "fall-preventing". "Paratroopers" means parachute troopers. The Chinese used parachutes for entertainment purposes or attached t...
...alist poem”, “foolishly speaking” - a “dadaist poem”, “the conversation in Chinese for an ignorant of this language” - a “lettrist poem”, “alternati... ... paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu in his classical book concerning the movement: “Paradoxism’s Aestetics” (1994). ... ...uild the Statue of Liberty of the Verse, delivered from the tyranny of the classic and its dogma. I allowed any boldness: - anti-literature and its... ...ur reconstruire la Statue de la Libertè du Vers delivrée de la tyrannie du classicisme et de ses dogmes. J`autorise toute audace: anti-littérature e... ...ys for the theater: Metaistorie (Romanian) {Meta-History} (Romania, 1993), novels: Non Roman (Romanian) {Non Novel} (Romania, 1993); short stories: ... ...urrealist poem, <foolishly speaking> - a dadaist poem, <the conversation in Chinese for an ignorant of this language> - a lettrist poem, <alternating...
... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...es. In the Sinai I perfected my Greek to a greater extent and studied the classical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. ... ... David, sitting on a bench facing his work. We agreed that it equaled any classical masterpiece. It was a little difficult to accept such beauty com... ...e cherished him, his frailty. Guild-member at twenty. Such kindness, such classic renderings in stone and bronze. We revered his Saint John, his ser... ...e the painstaking calendar he had chiseled into the wall beside his cot...Chinese characters along the top section of the calendar—a dragon undernea...
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...
...From The Lock and Key Library Julian Hawthorne, Ed. Classic Mystery and Detective Stories - Old Time English “On Being Found Ou... ...he Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication “On Being Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax”... ... Found Out” and “The Notch on the Ax” by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time English, ed. Julian Hawtho... ...ep into Mr. Gale’s little back room.” In that little back parlor there are Chinese gongs; there are old Saxe and Sevres plates; there is Furstenberg, ... ...s snuff-box, and by its side one of those awful— those admirable—sensation novels, which I had been reading, and which are full of delicious wonder. B... ... or on the floor? I am puzzled. But enough. If the fash- ion for sensation novels goes on, I tell you I will write one in fifty volumes. For the prese...
...Excerpt: On Being Found Out? and ?The Notch on the Ax? by William Makepeace Thackeray, from Classic Mystery and Detective Stories -- Old Time English, ed. Julian Hawthowrne....
...cally East Asian culture which includes Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Chinese, etc. This novel is not based on the Asian culture of Russia, Ta... ..., I can reveal the truth about Asian culture whether it's Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, etc. and all the reasons — — why Asians do th... ...about using an excuse to get — money! Speaking of excuses to get money, the Chinese have an egregiously blatant way of doing it. If you are invited ... ...petitions in countries all over the world, even decades after its creation. Classics like Street Fighter will stand the test of time. I believe that ... ...nce it looks good on your resume. I personally love playing the piano, from classical to contemporary, for the pure inspiration of music. I resent m... ...dest. — I decide to skip the magazines altogether and go over to the graphic novels section. I love reading the latest collections of DC Vertigo and ... ... to legal drugs. I finish looking through all of the shelves for new graphic novels and I see the kid, from the corner of my eye, getting up and taki... ...son dressed up as Yoda from Star Wars, painted green all over, carrying the classic wooden cane and it was not Halloween. — Hollywood is f*cked up ...
... thing. Think of the people who would work on Buster Keaton, or the literary classics of the 1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on... ... of an exclusive patent, and those which are not. 12 So Jefferson gives us a classic set of cautions, cautions that we should be re- quired to repeat,... ...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...magine language, scientific knowledge, basic algebra, the tonic scale, or the classics of four-hundred-year-old literature all being available only as ... ... new forms of instant messaging would displace Compuserve’s e-mail? That the Chinese dissident would have access to anonymized Internet services, that...
...s By: Sam Vaknin A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTa... ...subscription, ad-based, print, CD- ROM)? This might well be the case. Classic works of reference - from Diderot to the Encarta - offered a series... ...POD), Adobe, and MS Reader ebook formats. Thus, it is not confined to the classic sweatshop cum production centre so common in Less Developed Countr... ... shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eight decades later. T... ...bly can. So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgaria... ...pted and fitted with special fonts (Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Chinese - each present a different set of problems to overcome). This situ... ...ntries. It will be a cultural war zone (English against French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Spanish). It will be politically charged: those wishi...
...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the temple and shrines on that Mountain. A Chinese Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...t subtle transformation called Photosynthesis continues to baffle Science. A classic example of one Energy jumping to another level is the atom: whe... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...t subtle transformation called Photosynthesis continues to baffle Science. A classic example of one Energy jumping to another level is the atom: whe... ...dictions, our inner state of war outwards and we are still doing it. By this classic projection we avoided feeling our inner pain, in this way we av... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who...
...uttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contempo... ...es and suspenses there, the historical and contemporary romances here, the classics there, the Encyclopedia Britannica collection—that all "went with"... ...ets were stocked beyond Nor'easter preparation. The old Dagny had lived on Chinese take-out, had kept the fridge more bachelor-bare than some of Tyler... ...nd smooth and peaceful. Edge had had a nice jazz tape playing in the deck, classic Will Downing—right up Kelly's alley. The brother could blow, not li...
...ething is very flawed with the intellectual pillars and models of this field. Neo-classical economics has failed on several fronts simultaneously.... ...n monopolies (such as Microsoft), path dependence, and pervasive externalities. Classic cost/benefit analyses fail to tackle very long term inve... ...o produce valuable commodities and distribute them among different people". The classical concept of scarcity - unlimited wants vs. limited reso... ...of advertising now host a clutch of creative boutiques comfortably ensconced behind Chinese walls. Such outfits often manage the accounts of compet... ... Portfolio Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...U.S. dollars, forcing up U.S. interest rates and undermining the U.S. stock market. Chinese military officials, he claimed, had included this kind o...
...A Little Tour In France by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a pu... ...ur in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ... I remembered the Duchesse de Langeais, who figures in several of Balzac’s novels, and found this association very potent. The Duchesse de Langeais is... ...ges, which wan- ders through the province of Berry and through many of the novels of Madame George Sand; lifting from the sum- mit of a hill, which it... ...ee that I remember is a fine portrait of a woman, by Ingres,—very flat and Chinese, but with an interest of line and a great deal of style. There is a...
...The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham is a... ...ixpence by Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...er, I was in- troduced to it. It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is n... ...e combined a masculine intelli- gence with a feminine perversity , and the novels she wrote were original and disconcerting. It was at her house one d... ... Waterford was a cynic. She looked upon life as an opportunity for writing novels and the public as her raw material. Now and then she invited members... ...,” he answered, “but I don’t mind having a drop of whisky . ” I called the Chinese boy . “ Y ou don’t think it’s too early?” said the Cap- tain. “ Y o... ...l night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three native girls, giving her orders, chatting soc... ... , and to him she had given board and lodging for several months. When the Chinese laundryman refused to wash for him without payment she had sent his...
...The World Set Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publica... ...rld Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ... out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their begi... ...ction 5 FREDERICK BARNET’S WANDER JAHRE is one of those autobio- graphical novels that were popular throughout the third and fourth decades of the twe... ... and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese still refused reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintain... ...the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chinese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak in America. T... ...uneasy complaint that was presently an innumerable multitude of books. The novels more particularly of the nine- teenth century, if one excludes the m... ...ation. Religion was the privilege of the pulpit…. It was not only from the novels that religion was omitted. It was ignored by the newspapers; it was ...
...Roderick Hudson by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry James is a publicatio... ...erick Hudson by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... green tables for the consumption of beer, and a platform, sur- rounded by Chinese lanterns, for dancing. He especially desired the town library to be... ...neighborhood, where I am afraid he had given a good deal more attention to novels and billiards than to mathematics and Greek. Since then he has been ... ... she speaks three or four lan- guages, and has read several hundred French novels. Chris- tina, I suspect, is very clever. When I saw her, I was amaze... ...” Rowland said. “I will pick some out to-morrow and send them to you.” “No novels, please! I am tired of novels. I can imagine better stories for myse...
...THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a public... ... Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds th... ...y to all that had hith- erto seemed nonsense about love. I took to reading novels, and if the heroine could not possibly be like her, dusky and warm a... ... pursuing such interests, went so far as to read political memoirs and the novels of Disraeli and Mrs. Humphry Ward. From gossip, example and the illu... ...tific construction that filled my mind. He could as easily have understood Chinese poetry. His motives were made up of intense rivalries with other me... ...e-edged, white cyclamens in flower. And there was a big lacquer cabinet, a Chinese thing, I suppose, of black and gold against the red-toned wall. To ... ... inspired by a passionate desire to substitute manacled but still criminal Chinese for honest British labourers throughout the world. And when it came...
... by H. G. Wells (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a p... ... Magnificent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...tood ready. Then came the large hall, with its noiseless carpets and great Chinese jars, its lacquered cabinets and the wide staircase, and float- ing... ...n sees his line, his in- tention. Yet though we are all of us writing long novels— White’s world was the literary world, and that is how it looked to ... ...d, it professes a hero but presents a heroine. And to begin with at least, novels were written for the reading of heroines. Miss Lydia Languish sets n... ... sky… . As he went along the riverside he met a group of dusky stu- dents, Chinese or Japanese. Cambridge had abounded in Indians; and beneath that ta... ...im that something of their easy-going free- dom was to be found in Russian novels. A photographic en- largement of somebody with a vegetarian expressi... ...Wells and have a talk in Kensington Gardens? You know the place, near that Chinese garden. Paddington Gate… .” The lady’s voice fell to flatness. She ...
...The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publi... ... of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...and order you to botanize and prescribe tranquillizing reading; Trollope’s novels, the Life of Gladstone, the works of Mr. A. C. Benson, memoirs and s... .... In the drawing-room he found only Sir James Mounce, the man who knew the novels of Sir Walter Scott by heart and had the minutest and most unsparing... ...n never forget. “See in this world,” he said, turning to the globe, “while Chinese merchants and T urkish troopers, school-board boys and Norwegian fi...
...E TE TE E E E E ELECTRONIC LECTRONIC LECTRONIC LECTRONIC LECTRONIC C C C C CLASSICS LASSICS LASSICS LASSICS LASSICS S S S S SERIES ERIES ERIES ERIES E... ... of Chicago by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ... 4 The Pit The T rilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the fol- lowing novels: The Octopus, a Story of California. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. Th... ...alifornia. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. The Wolf, a Story of Europe. These novels, while forming a series, will be in no way connected with each other... ...ry carefully,” he assured her. “Say,” he added, “where are all your modern novels? You’ve got Scott and Dickens and Thackeray, of course, and Eliot—ye... ... engravings of the style of the seventies, “whatnots” crowded with shells, Chinese coins, lacquer boxes, and the inevitable sawfish bill. The mantel w...
...or by Honoré de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans.... ...Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...rough the window the old couple seated motionless in their armchairs, like Chinese images, listening to their daughter, and admiring her with all the ... ...abitants of the town were presently surprised by the sight of rare birds,— Chinese pheasants, mysterious breeds of ducks. Every one flocked to see the... ...ing by the liberty of married women to read what they please. She read the novels of Walter Scott, the poems of Lord Byron, the works of Schiller and ... ...st hu- man law-givers?—witness the existence, as a nation, of the Jews and Chinese, the former in spite of their dispersion over the whole earth, and ...