Lydia: 600 books

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose...

J.M.H.O. The World Through My Eyes 2013 Edition Vol. 1 J.M.H.O. The World Through My Eyes came about thanks to my blog postings. I blog on an adult website. As long as I was posting naughty stories or naughty photos all things were cool. It was a misjudgment on my part to think that current...

Lydia Millet’s debut novel, first published in 1996, is an explosive satire that scorches our culture’s monstrous men and institutions. In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estée Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into...

"What a ride! In a death-defying taxi with no windows, I was flown along the roads in a howling gale. Horrible. I sat directly behind the driver hoping he would act as an air bag when the inevitable collision came. In that position I couldn't see the worst that was happening around us, like pedestrians...

"I had noticed in Madagascar that many things are called Mad. Would you trust yourself to Mad travel (it sounds rather like what I do), eat in Mad cafe or, a real worry for a white-knuckle flyer, take to the skies with Mad Air, as Air Madagascar is generally known?" In all her travels across...

Readers of this book will discover amazing variety, not only in themes, but also in poetic style. Lydia herself invented a three-syllable line of carefree verse that she employed in her "August Love in Tennessee". Her poems are a veritable visual feast much like a painting, owing to her...

Olive Leaves Lydia Sigourney, popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century (1791-1865) This ebook presents «Olive Leaves», from Lydia Sigourney. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS...

Wat als ik hem vermoord had? schrijft Ama in haar dagboek. `Hem , dat is haar stiefvader. Bijna haar hele leven is ze door hem mishandeld en misbruikt. Ten slotte loopt ze weg van huis en doet aangifte. Niet voor zichzelf, maar vooral voor haar jongere zusjes. Zij moeten een beter leven krijgen. Ama...

LYDIA TEH, the astute observer and chronicler of the absurdities of all things Malaysian, returns with more absurdities of Malaysian life and oddities of human behaviour in Honk! If You’re Malaysian. Everything in life is grist for her mill; there’s always something in the nothingness of everyday...

Regency England Has Gone to the Wolves! Lady Madeline Hayburn Has Money Problems... Specifically, she has so much of it that she's dogged by fortune hunters, including her bewilderingly attractive, penniless neighbor, with his wild nature and uncouth manners... Weston Hadley Has...

J.M.H.O. The World Through My Eyes came about thanks to my blog postings. I blog on an adult website. As long as I was posting naughty stories or naughty photos all things were cool. It was a misjudgment on my part to think that current events whether they be on politics, local and international happenings,...

Treatise on the Diseases of Women Lydia Pinkham, iconic concocter (1819-1883) This ebook presents «Treatise on the Diseases of Women», from Lydia Pinkham. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- A WOMAN...

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation. Engaging debate about how ‘cosmopolitan’ principles...

Lydia Ford has written an incredibly honest and transparent story of her life. In the midst of past storms and life changing events, the death of her only daughter, and at the time of publication, the untimely death of her husband of 37 years, Rev. Ford has courageously held fast to her testimony, "Don't...