Hungry. Ruthless. Irresistibly erotic. Succumb to desire as dark and mysterious as the men featured in these four tales of sensual–and deliciously sinister–passion. . . Midnight Thirsts The Nightwatchers, by Greg Herren Aspiring actor Phillip Rutledge is looking only for a role in a local theater production when he finds something much more tempting in the arms of mysterious Kevin Lockhart. Yet what Kevin craves may be more than Phillip is wi ...
A Boy’s Will' is the poetry collection that put the world on notice that Robert Frost was going to be an important Poet. His early poems were already exploring the themes and subject matter that would make him America’s best known poet. Simply superb. ...
In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentally set ...
Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. In his preface to this play Voltaire says: «The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline's conspiracy: a tragedy, they very well know, is not a history, but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that Cic ...
Каково это – быть Шекспиром? Жить в елизаветинской Англии на закате эпохи; сочинять «по наитию», не заботясь о славе: играючи заводить друзей, соперников, покровителей, поклонников, а между делом создавать величайшие тексты в мировой литературе. Об этом и других аспектах жизни и творчества самого известного – и самого загадочного драматурга пишет в своей книге О. В. Разумовская, специалист по английской литературе, автор многочисленных исследова ...
Als »Normalverbraucher« kann man sich in unserer »Informations-Uberflussgesellschaft« mitunter nur schwer zurechtfinden. Sachliche Fakten werden mit Fake News, klug recherchierte Zusammenhange mit Halbwahrheiten oder rei?erischen Plattituden unbekummert oder absichtsvoll zusammengeruhrt. Meist kommt alles wohlverpackt daher, klingt gut und scheint beim ersten Uberfliegen spontan zustimmungsfahig, haufig sogar dann, wenn es sich um einander wider ...
