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Books RSS FeedsJournal of the Missouri State Convention, Held in Jefferson City, June, 1862 - Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held in Jefferson City, June, 1862 (page images at Google)...Feed Source: books.google.com Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention, Held at Jefferson City and St. Louis, March, 1861 - Journal and Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention, Held at Jefferson City and St. Louis, March, 1861 (page images at Google)... The Ballot for the Home (Willard) - The Ballot for the Home (Boston: The Woman's Journal, 1898), by Frances Elizabeth Willard (HTML at NIU)... A Classic Town (Willard) - A Classic Town: The Story of Evanston, by "An Old Timer" (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1891), by Frances Elizabeth Willard (illustrated HTML at NIU)... Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Willard) - Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1893), by Frances Elizabeth Willard (HTML at NIU)... Dress and Vice (Willard) - Dress and Vice (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, n.d.), by Frances Elizabeth Willard (illustrated HTML at NIU)... St. Paul the Hero (Jones) - St. Paul the Hero (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Double Search (Jones) - The Double Search: Studies in Atonement and Prayer (Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1906), by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Inner Life (Jones) - The Inner Life (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Nature and Authority of Conscience (Jones) - The Nature and Authority of Conscience (1920), by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (Wells) - The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by H. G. Wells, illust. by J. F. Horrabin (multiple formats at archive.org)... Quakerism (Jones) - Quakerism: A Religion of Life, by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Quakers in the American Colonies (Jones) - The Quakers in the American Colonies (London: Macmillan, 1911), by Rufus Matthew Jones, Isaac Sharpless, and Amelia M. Gummere (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Quaker (Gummere) - The Quaker: A Study in Costume (Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1901), by Amelia M. Gummere (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians (Steindorff) - The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians (New York and London: G. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Georg Steindorff (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Story of George Fox (Jones) - The Story of George Fox (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Student's History of Philosophy (Rogers) - A Student's History of Philosophy (New York and London: Macmillan, 1908), by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (multiple formats at archive.org)... Studies in Mystical Religion (Jones) - Studies in Mystical Religion (London: Macmillan and Co., 1909), by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Remnant (Jones) - The Remnant (London: The Swarthmore Press, c1920), by Rufus Matthew Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)... Mental Radio (Sinclair) - Mental Radio (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930), by Upton Sinclair, contrib. by William McDougal (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible (Palmer) - A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible (second edition; Cincinnati: Montfort and Co., 1914), by Frank Nelson Palmer (HTML at verselink.org)... Dictionary of Volapük (Wood) - Dictionary of Volapük: Volapü-English, English-Volapük (1889), by Marshall William Wood (page images at Google; US access only)... Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861 - Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861 (page images at Google)... Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the First Constitutional Convention of North Dakota (North Dakota) - Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the First Constitutional Convention of North Dakota (1889), by North Dakota (page images at Google; US access only)... A Dictionary of the English and Volapük Languages (Rellye) - A Dictionary of the English and Volapük Languages (Chicago: L. Schick, 1888), by John Rellye (page images at Google; US access only)... A Red Record (Wells-Barnett) - A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894, Respectfully Submitted to the Nineteenth Century Civilization in 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1895), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML at NIU)... Lynch Law in Georgia (Wells-Barnett) - Lynch Law in Georgia (Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (HTML at NIU)... The East St. Louis Massacre (Wells-Barnett) - The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century (Chicago: The Negro Fellowship Herald Press, 1917), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (illustrated HTML at NIU)... The Arkansas Race Riot (Wells-Barnett) - The Arkansas Race Riot (Chicago: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1920), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (illustrated HTML at NIU)... House Journal (Kansas. Legislature. House of Representatives) - House Journal, by Kansas House of Representatives (partial serial archives)... The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses (Bates) - The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses (New York: Central Fixation Pub. Co., c1920), by William Horatio Bates (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Iron Trevet, or, Jocelyn the Champion (Sue) - The Iron Trevet, or, Jocelyn the Champion: A Tale of the Jacquerie (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1906), by Eugčne Sue, trans. by Daniel De Leon (multiple formats at archive.org)... Kansas Constitutional Convention (Kansas) - Kansas Constitutional Convention: A Reprint of the Proceedings and Debates (1920 edition chronicling an 1859 convention), by Kansas (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Principles of Psychology (James) - The Principles of Psychology (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., ca. 1891), by William James (stable link)... The Science of Psychic Healing (Ramacharaka) - The Science of Psychic Healing (c1906), by Yogi Ramacharaka (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Silver Cross, or, The Carpenter of Nazareth (Sue) - The Silver Cross, or, The Carpenter of Nazareth: A Tale of Jerusalem (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1909), by Eugčne Sue, trans. by Daniel De Leon (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, Translated From the Sanskrit, With an Outline of the Philosophy of the Upanishads, and an Annotated Bibliography (Hume) - The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, Translated From the Sanskrit, With an Outline of the Philosophy of the Upanishads, and an Annotated Bibliography (1921), trans. by Robert Ernest Hume (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Wandering Jew (Sue) - The Wandering Jew (5 volumes; New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, n.d.), by Eugčne Sue, illust. by Gustave Doré (stable link)... The History of England, From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st, By a Partial, Prejudiced, and Ignorant Historian (Austen) - The History of England, From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st, By a Partial, Prejudiced, and Ignorant Historian (original manuscript version), by Jane Austen (page images and HTML with commentary at bl.uk)... Narrative as Rhetoric (Phelan) - Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, ideology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Reading People, Reading Plots (Phelan) - Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Understanding Narrative (Phelan) - Understanding Narrative (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1994), ed. by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Shakespeare's History Plays (Pierce) - Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Before Reading (Rabinowitz) - Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Peter J. Rabinowitz, contrib. by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)... Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (Godwin) - Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1804), by William Godwin (stable link)... Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (Godwin) - Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (2 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1803), by William Godwin (stable link)... A Defence of the Rockingham Party in Their Late Coalition With the Right Honourable Frederic Lord North (Godwin) - A Defence of the Rockingham Party in Their Late Coalition With the Right Honourable Frederic Lord North (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1783), by William Godwin (HTML at pitzer.edu)... Instructions to a Statesman, Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honorable George Earl Temple (Godwin) - Instructions to a Statesman, Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honorable George Earl Temple (London: Printed for J. Murray, J. Debrett, and J. Sewell, 1784), by William Godwin (HTML at pitzer.edu)... An Account of The Seminary That Will Be Opened On Monday the Fourth Day of August, At Epsom in Surrey, for the Instruction of Twelve Pupils in the Greek, Latin, French, and English Language (Godwin) - An Account of The Seminary That Will Be Opened On Monday the Fourth Day of August, At Epsom in Surrey, for the Instruction of Twelve Pupils in the Greek, Latin, French, and English Language (London: T. Cadell, 1783), by William Godwin (HTML at pitzer.edu)... Computerized Networks of Hate (Lowe) - Computerized Networks of Hate: An ADL Fact-Finding Report (New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1985), by David Lowe, contrib. by Anti-Defamation League (PDF at archive.org)... Ruanda-Urundi (Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi) - Ruanda-Urundi: Geography and History (1960), by Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi, trans. by Goldie Blankoff-Scarr (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Ruanda-Urundi (Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi) - Ruanda-Urundi: Social Achievements (1960), by Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi, trans. by Goldie Blankoff-Scarr (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The Jewish Autonomous Region (Bergelson) - The Jewish Autonomous Region (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939), by David Bergelson (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The Dramatic Writings of Nicholas Udall (Udall) - The Dramatic Writings of Nicholas Udall (London: Privately printed by the English Drama Society, 1906), by Nicholas Udall, ed. by John Stephen Farmer (multiple formats at archive.org)... Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion (Johnson) - Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion: China (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)... Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion (Johnson) - Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion: Persia (London: Trubner and Co., 1885), by Samuel Johnson, contrib. by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (multiple formats at archive.org)... Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion (Johnson) - Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion: India (2 volumes; London: Trubner and Co., 1879), by Samuel Johnson (stable link)... The Shakespeare Symphony (Bayley) - The Shakespeare Symphony: An Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama (London: Chapman and Hall, 1906), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Ruppelt) - The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1956), by Edward J. Ruppelt (stable link)... Life of Virgil (Donatus) - Life of Virgil, by Aelius Donatus, trans. by David Scott Wilson-Okamura (HTML with commentary at virgil.org)... The Problem of China (Russell) - The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)... Love Conquers All (Benchley) - Love Conquers All, by Robert Benchley, illust. by Gluyas Williams (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)... The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (Russell) - The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1921), by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)... A Short Guide to Great Britain (United States. Army Service Forces. Special Service Division) - A Short Guide to Great Britain (1942), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Luxembourg and the German Invasion, Before and After (Luxembourg) - Luxembourg and the German Invasion, Before and After (1942), by Luxembourg (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... Industrial Development of the Netherlands Indies (Sitsen) - Industrial Development of the Netherlands Indies (ca.1943), by Peter H. W. Sitsen (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (Goddard) - The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (c1915), ed. by Dwight Goddard (multiple formats at archive.org)... Oswiecim, Camp of Death (Underground Report) (Zarembina) - Oswiecim, Camp of Death (Underground Report) (1944), by Natalia Zarembina, contrib. by Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman and Polish Labor Group (New York, N.Y.) (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)... The American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles (Beard) - The American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1915), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)... The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Beard) - The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)... The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft (Beard) - The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)... Dan Beard's Animal Book and Camp-Fire Stories (Beard) - Dan Beard's Animal Book and Camp-Fire Stories (new and enlarged edition; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., 1910), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (Goddard) - The Good News of a Spiritual Realm (revised edition; New York et al: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1916), ed. by Dwight Goddard (multiple formats at archive.org)... Of All Things (Benchley) - Of All Things (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Robert Benchley (multiple formats at archive.org)... Journal of the Council of the Territory of Washington, During the Second Esssion of the Legislative Assembly, Begun and Held at Olympia, December 4, 1854 (Washington Territory. Legislative Assembly. Council) - Journal of the Council of the Territory of Washington, During the Second Esssion of the Legislative Assembly, Begun and Held at Olympia, December 4, 1854, by Washington Territory Council (page images at Google)... House Journals (Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives) - House Journals, by Oregon House of Representatives (partial serial archives)... The English Bible (Nettleton) - The English Bible: Some Account of its Origin and Various Versions (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1911), by George Henry Nettleton (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Old, Old, Very Old Man (Taylor) - The Old, Old, Very Old Man: or, The Age and Long Life of Thomas Par, the Son of John Parr of Winnington (London: Henry Goffon, 1635), by John Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)... Old Testament Narratives (Nettleton) - Old Testament Narratives (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1911), ed. by George Henry Nettleton (multiple formats at archive.org)... Peter the Great (Motley) - Peter the Great (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1887), by John Lothrop Motley (multiple formats at archive.org)... Peter the Great (Waliszewski) - Peter the Great (second edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1898), by Kazimierz Waliszewski, trans. by Mary Loyd (multiple formats at archive.org)... Two Lamentable Tragedies (Yarington) - Two Lamentable Tragedies (1913 reprint of 1601 publication), by Robert Yarington, contrib. by John Day, William Haughton, and Henry Chettle (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Works of Victor Hugo (Hugo) - The Works of Victor Hugo (edition de luxe, 10 volumes, with a biography; Boston and New York: Jefferson Press, n.d.), by Victor Hugo, ed. by Robert Louis Stevenson, contrib. by Frank T. Marzials (stable link)... The Minor Law Books (Jolly) - The Minor Law Books ("part 1" only part published; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1889), ed. by Julius Jolly, contrib. by Narada and Brhaspati (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)... A Mile in Their Shoes (Elson) - A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations With Veterans of World War II, by Aaron C. Elson (HTML and partial audio at tankbooks.com)... 9 Lives (Elson) - 9 Lives: An Oral History (electronic edition, c2003), by Aaron C. Elson (HTML at tankbooks.com)... They Were All Young Kids (Elson) - They Were All Young Kids (electronic edition, c2003), by Aaron C. Elson (HTML at tankbooks.com)... Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Arizona (Arizona) - Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Arizona (1910), by Arizona (page images at Google; US access only)... Grouse and Quails of North America (Johnsgard) - Grouse and Quails of North America, by Paul A. Johnsgard (PDF at unl.edu)... Hypnerotomachia (Colonna) - Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame (from a facsimile of the 1592 edition; covers about half the Italian text), by Francesco Colonna, trans. by Robert Dallington (stable link)... Council Journal (New Mexico. Legislative Assembly. Council) - Council Journal, by New Mexico Legislative Council (partial serial archives)... House Journal (New Mexico. Legislature. House of Representatives) - House Journal, by New Mexico House of Representatives (partial serial archives)... Senate Journal (Wyoming. Legislature. Senate) - Senate Journal, by Wyoming Senate (partial serial archives)... Equality (Bellamy) - Equality (Toronto: George N. Morang, 1897), by Edward Bellamy (multiple formats at archive.org)... Heroes of the Darkness (Mannix) - Heroes of the Darkness (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1911), by J. Bernard Mannix (multiple formats at archive.org)... Joan of Arc (Ince) - Joan of Arc (London: W. Rider and Son, 1921), by Richard Basil Ince (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Strife of Love in a Dream (Colonna) - The Strife of Love in a Dream: Being an Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna (London: David Nutt, 1890), by Francesco Colonna, ed. by Andrew Lang, trans. by Robert Dallington (multiple formats at archive.org)... Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Salt Lake City on the Fourth Day of March 1895, to Adopt a Constition for the State of Utah (Utah) - Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Salt Lake City on the Fourth Day of March 1895, to Adopt a Constition for the State of Utah, by Utah (stable link)... Clairvoyance and Occult Powers (Panchadasi) - Clairvoyance and Occult Powers (1916), by Swami Panchadasi (Gutenberg text)... The Human Aura (Panchadasi) - The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms, by Swami Panchadasi (Gutenberg text)... Council Journal (Montana. Legislative Assembly. Council) - Council Journal, by Montana Legislative Assembly Council (partial serial archives)... House Journal (Montana. Legislature. House of Representatives) - House Journal, by Montana House of Representatives (partial serial archives)... Senate Journal (Montana. Legislature. Senate) - Senate Journal, by Montana Senate (partial serial archives)... Journal of the Council Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma (Oklahoma. Legislative Assembly. Council) - Journal of the Council Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, by Oklahoma Legislative Assembly Council (partial serial archives)... Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma (Oklahoma. Legislative Assembly. House) - Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, by Oklahoma Legislative Assembly House of Representatives (partial serial archives)... The Best Psychic Stories (French) - The Best Psychic Stories, ed. by Joseph Lewis French (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Girl Who Found the Blue Bird (Leblanc) - The Girl Who Found the Blue Bird (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), by Georgette Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (multiple formats at archive.org)... A History of Egypt From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Breasted) - A History of Egypt From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1909), by James Henry Breasted (multiple formats at archive.org)... An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism, With Especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases (McGovern) - An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism, With Especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases (1922), by William Montgomery McGovern (multiple formats at archive.org)... Man's Miracle (Harry) - Man's Miracle: The Story of Helen Keller and Her European Sisters (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Gérard Harry, contrib. by Georgette Leblanc (multiple formats at archive.org)... Optimism (Keller) - Optimism: An Essay (New York: Crowell, 1903), by Helen Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)... Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Harrison) - Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1908), by Jane Ellen Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Song of the Stone Wall (Keller) - The Song of the Stone Wall, by Helen Keller (stable link)... The Table Talk of John Selden (Selden) - The Table Talk of John Selden (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Harvey Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)... The Table-Talk of John Selden (Selden) - The Table-Talk of John Selden (second edition; London: J. R. Smith, 1856), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Weller Singer (multiple formats at archive.org)... The World I Live In (Keller) - The World I Live In (New York: The Century Co., 1910), by Helen Keller (multiple formats at archive.org)... A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (Pearce-Moses) - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (2005), by Richard Pearce-Moses (HTML at archivists.org)... Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization (Rieger) - Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)... The Two Souls of Socialism (Draper) - The Two Souls of Socialism, by Hal Draper (HTML at marxists.org)... Senate Journals (Oklahoma. Legislature. Senate) - Senate Journals, by Oklahoma Senate (partial serial archives)... Dead Not Deid ˇ James Meek: A Great Radical Modernist - The opening story in James Kelman's 1998 collection, The Good Times, is called 'Joe Laughed'. It's nine pages long and is told from the point of view of a boy who plays football on a patch of waste ground among derelict industrial buildings by the river in a large, unnamed city which British readers are bound to assume is Glasgow. You don't find out the boy's name, or his age, although hints and the boy's style of reflection encourage you to guess he's between 14 and 16. At half-time, the boy and two friends start exploring an abandoned factory. After a bit, the boy's friends hit him and run away laughing.... Unhoused ˇ Terry Eagleton on anonymity - All literary works are anonymous, but some are more anonymous than others. It is in the nature of a piece of writing that it is able to stand free of its begetter, and can dispense with his or her physical presence. In this sense, writing is more like an adolescent than a toddler. I might pass you a note at a meeting, but a note is only a note if it can function in my absence. Writing, unlike speech, is meaning that has come adrift from its source. Some bits of writing - theatre tickets or notes to the milkman, for example - are more closely tied to their original contexts than Paradise Lost or War and Peace.... Diary ˇ Kevin Kopelson: Confessions of a Plagiarist - I quote too much. Give me a good line - what am I saying? Give me a good paragraph - even a Proustian one - and I'll shove it into my own prose regardless of how tiresome that is. Take my last book, on the satirist David Sedaris. Not only do you get more Proust than you'd ever care for, you get an awful lot of Sedaris - pure, unadulterated Sedaris. It's not that I'm lazy. Or rather, it's not just that I'm lazy.... Where do we go from here? ˇ R.W. Johnson on Zimbabwe - The sequence of events that produced the current deadlock in Zimbabwe began on 11 March last year when Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of other members of the Movement for Democratic Change were arrested, tortured and beaten. Robert Mugabe had banned all MDC meetings and rallies in the hope of suppressing the MDC completely before this year's elections.... Free-Marketeering ˇ Stephen Holmes on Naomi Klein - The anti-globalisation movement suffered a dizzying setback on 9/11. Symbolic gatecrashing into the well-guarded meeting places of the super-rich suddenly seemed a much more sinister activity than before. Busting up branches of Starbucks and other Seattle-style antics became anathema in an atmosphere of injured and vindictive patriotism. But Naomi Klein, the combative theorist and publicist of anti-globalisation, was not about to accept such guilt by association.... Art Is a Cupboard! ˇ Tony Wood on Daniil Kharms - An old woman leans out of her window and, 'because of her excessive curiosity', leans too far: she falls to the ground and shatters to pieces. A second old woman leans out of her window to see what has happened to the first - and also leans too far, tumbling to the same fate. More women follow suit (a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth), a chain that ends only because the narrator of this story, 'sick of watching them', breaks off to go to the market.... End-of-the-World Trade ˇ Donald MacKenzie on the credit crisis - Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks' headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund's St James's office trying to understand the credit crisis that had erupted over the previous four months. I became intrigued by an oddity that I came to think of as the end-of-the-world trade. The trade is the purchase of insurance against what would in effect be the failure of the modern capitalist system.... The Divisions of Cyprus ˇ Perry Anderson - Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or less unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the palm of Brussels. The furthest east of all the EU's new acquisitions, even if the most prosperous and democratic, has been a tribulation to its establishment, one that neither fits the uplifting narrative of the deliverance of captive nations from Communism, nor furthers the strategic aims of Union diplomacy, indeed impedes them. Cyprus is, in truth, an anomaly in the new Europe.... Letters - The letters page from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 10... Table of contents - Table of contents from London Review of Books Volume 30 issue 10... Copyright © 2008, Magic Maldives. All Rights Reserved. |