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Rabindranath TagoreGeetanjali

26 April 2022

THOU hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and da

Ernst GombrichThe Story of Art

26 April 2022

SOME form of art exists everywhere on the globe, but the story of art as a continuous effort does not begin in the caves of southern France or among the North American Indians. There is no direct tra

Ernst GombrichThe Story of Art

26 April 2022

WEdo not know how art began any more than we know how language started. If we take art to mean such activities as building temples and houses, making pictures and sculptures, or weaving patterns, th

Anne FrankThe Diary Of A Young Girl

25 April 2022

I had my birthday party on Sunday afternoon. The Rin Tin Tin movie was a big hit with my classmates. I got two brooches, a bookmark and two books. I’ll start by saying a few things about my school an

Anne FrankThe Diary Of A Young Girl

25 April 2022

I’ll begin from the moment I got you, the moment I saw you lying on the table among my other birthday presents. (I went along when you were bought, but that doesn’t count.) On Friday, June 12, I was

Charles DickensOliver Twist

25 April 2022

For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was dul

Charles DickensOliver Twist

25 April 2022

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to

Emily BronteWuthering Heights

25 April 2022

YESTERDAY afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B. I di

Emily BronteWuthering Heights

25 April 2022

1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have

Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island

25 April 2022

I lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man’s m

Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island

25 April 2022

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the

Alistair HorneA Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

25 April 2022

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke, On Conciliation with America, 1775 The country SETTING the scene for the

Alistair HorneA Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

25 April 2022

As long as you keep Algiers, you will be constantly at war with Africa; sometimes this war will seem to end; but these people will not hate you any the less; it will be a half-extinguished fire that

Elizabeth GaskellWives And Daughters

25 April 2022

At ten o'clock on the eventful Thursday the Towers' carriage began its work. Molly was ready long before it made its first appearance, although it had been settled that she and the Miss Brownings we

Elizabeth GaskellWives And Daughters

25 April 2022

To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that

D.H. LawrenceWomen in Love

23 April 2022

SHORTLANDS The Brangwens went home to Beldover, the weddingparty gathered at Shortlands, the Criches’ home. It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope

D.H. LawrenceWomen in Love

23 April 2022

SISTERS Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightlycoloured embroidery, and Gudru

MIKHAIL BULGAKOVMaster and Margarita

23 April 2022

In a white cloak with blood-red lining, with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, early in the morning of the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, there came out to the covered colonnade betwe

MIKHAIL BULGAKOVMaster and Margarita

23 April 2022

At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch’s Ponds. 1 One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald,

Robert F Kennedy Thirteen Days A MEMOIR OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

23 April 2022

A jL JLfter the meeting in the Cabinet Room, I walked back to the Mansion with the President. It would be difficult; the stakes were high—of the highest and most substantial kind—but he knew he wo