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...A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Doll’s House by Henr... ...Henrik Ibsen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer. Nora, his wife. Doc... ...ed me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. And when I came to live with you— Helmer. What sort of an expression... ...ust as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought...
...Excerpt: ACT I. (SCENE.--A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to the left leads to Helmer?s study. Between the doors stands a piano. In the middle of ...
...A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. Th...
...Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts was first published in 1881 and staged in 1882, and like his earlier play A Doll's House, profoundly shocked his contemporaries. Dubbed a dirty deed done in public by one of its critics, the play focuses on (among other things) venereal disease, euthanasia, and incest. The original title literally ...
...alf of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vote, nor to have a bank account or passport/traveling papers without express written perm... ... account or passport/traveling papers without express written permission of a father or husband. They had no property rights, not even to their own ... ... clothing and jewelry. They had no legal status whatsoever outside of being a daughter or a wife. These facts inform much of Claire Delacroix’s bac... ...ers and made wine from grapes that grew in a little arbor behind the modest house. My mother, who had been born to a life of leisure, worked for a m... ...ow to read and write. When I was old enough, I attended the village school house. Eventually, as happened with the daughters of wealthier families... ...nglish by the time I returned to Baincthuin. By the same token, I loved the house in Baincthuin, with its stone walls and tiled floors. There were ... ... or you may join me.” “I will play inside, Maman,” she said, and got out her dolls. I slipped my feet into a pair of espadrilles, which Erik had cal...
...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other...
... Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2005 Not for Sale! No... ...8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V. E VI. F VII. G VIII. H IX. I-J X... ... S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales ... ... Simpson - who was having a long-term affair of his own - moved out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first Am... ...nd in the Aegean Sea (Thera, or Santorini it suffered an earthquake in 1640 BC and housed the flourishing Cycladic civilization), through the Canar... ...egally meaningless in the antebellum South, though. But nearly 90 percent of slave households remained intact till death or forced separation. The ...
... Sam Vaknin Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint Skopje 2006 No... ...urim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Anatomy of a Mental Illness http://samvak.tripod.com/journal11.html... ... Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to T... ... crumbling doors, among the unsold merchandise. With sunrise, my grandfather would exit the house and head towards the miniature plot of garden adjo... ...all, white, paper bags, he rushed the doses to his wife, limping and winded. This time the house was shuttered doors and windows. My grandma wouldn... ...he practiced smiles are lifted, wiped is the feigned civility of all involved. Players and house alike frantically observe each card, each turn of t...
A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.
...ut strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, still ... ...ned into repudiating their aloneness. It was an early Bangkok morning with a new day tripping over the corpse of the earlier one the way dogs on the B... ... of the game of being desired. Although he wasn't even conscious that such a game was being played, she was fully cognizant of these subliminal calcul... ...sity, which Thais called A-back. Maybe having his Porn stay over at their house the previous night was disrespectful to his wife but nice or offensiv... ...s collecting rain water in those big ceramic tubs that sit in front of the house, being stingy with every drop of water when you wash your body, and t... ... the selling of property; the drive from Ayutthaya; the night at someone's house in some type of a fever or hallucination; mosquito bites under a net;...
This book is about an individual in dire poverty who makes his way in Bangkok from a sidewalk restaurant worker to a famous prostitute painter
... this change was painful and wrought with strife. It began on May 7 th , a day that began like any other day. People around the world went about th... ...ines. Soon they found out that this day was diferent, and it started with a ferce video feed which came through every television, internet connected... ...unication system. “ Atention citizens around the world. It is time to take a break from the activity of your daily life and look around you. Do you ... ...’t negotiating. I saw that dozer plow through a town, cut- ting down every house, building, tree, and person in its path,” Vincent explained. “I deci... ...been laughed at for his ways. When the federal gun ban was passed, their house was ransacked by law enforcement. Dad, being the smart, if not suspi... ...two former Project Scorpion employees, “We’re going to the compound that housed Project Scorpion. You’re bringing us there.” The two men looked at e... ...e body aside. How was that possible? He was throwing them around like rag dolls. The memory went blank as the previous one had. Yet another memory c... ... next to him and threw him into two others as if they were a group of rag dolls. The Firehawk hovered about forty feet above, waiting for the opport...
...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....
...y person via email, floppy disk, network, print out, or any other means is a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to sev... ... "Allah has forsaken you, Kane." He heard the husky declaration as if from a great distance, glared at the sensual orifice from which his death senten... ...t been emitted, saw her executioner's grin. Beautiful red lips curved into a wicked smile. How could such lips—full, moist and capable of giving him s... ...ated a piece as was the Blacas, it was too unglamorous a piece in which to house so sinfully beautiful a creature as her imp. But there was nothing el... ... and the museum's administration liked to affectionately call it—was tiny, housed in a private brownstone in Brooklyn. Surprisingly tiny to Therese, s... ...some other conspicuous place of honor, in his mother's fifth-floor walk-up housed in an urn like the one that had released the thing that had killed h...
...Old World Evil vs New Age Passion ... A centuries old djinni betrayed...A modern career woman and wife bereft...Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's love survive the anci...
...picted in this book are products of the author’s imagination, or are used in a fictitious situation. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, or... ...a waited at the top of the courthouse steps when Julia arrived. She pressed a hand beneath her cashmere overcoat to ease the knot forming in her sto... ...n her stomach. Reporters were always the hardest part of her job. Drawing a deep breath, she walked around the corner and climbed the wide, cement... ...imbed into his truck. Tonight he had to make an appearance at his parents’ house for a family dinner and he figured showing up with a hard-on the s... ...was a bad idea. Julia sat in silence beside Cade in front of his parents’ house. The very scent of him filled the rickety old truck’s cab and nea... ...er hand. Foregoing the front door, Cade took Julia around the side of the house to the gate where loud laughter and the sound of girlish squeals r...
...ow the shoe is on the other foot and Cade is limping along helplessly behind her size seven pumps. Two successful attorneys arguing opposite sides of a high profile DUI manslaughter case, there's more than just a failed affair spirited debates. Between them lies four-year-old Laura with Cade's blue eyes and Julia's black curls. Cade will do anything to get them back -- eve...
...ndependence Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of ... ...d suggestions as to how this problem should be solved. The Report contains a specific legislative recommendation along with a discussion of our thinki... ...ase, both before and after its decision, created considerable controversy. A principal concern is that the current Copyright Act might be creating a c... .... LAMPMANN SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS CHIEF OF STAFF RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE Rayburn House Office Building A... ...ited States SUBCOMMITTEE ON RESEARCH FAX (202) 225-8628 http://lamarsmith.house.gov House of Representatives SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY ... ...202) 225-4095 DISTRICT OFFICE: JUDICIARY RANKING MEMBER. SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10200 SEPULVEDA BLVD. COURTS AND INTELLECTUAL ...
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... ATTAINING THEWORLDSBEYOND A Guide to Spiritual Discovery ATTAINING THEWORLDSBEYOND A Guide to ... ............ 81 False Pleasures ........................................... 84 9. A Plea for Help .......................................... 87 In Memory... ......................... 214 18. The Omnipotent Magician Who Could Not Be Alone: A Tale for Grown Ups ...................................... 218 19. Spi... ...wing short play. SpiritualPath -39- 3 TheDiningTable ActOne In a brightly lit house with spacious rooms, a pleasant- looking man is busy in the kitch... ...ure found in your food? Guest:Thatisnotuptoyou,buttome.Ifthepersoncoming to my house were not a common person, but a very important personality, I wou... ...t differently. Thisisreminiscentofasituationwhereapersonisaguest at a friend’s house. The greater the guest’s appetite and pleasure for what is offere...
...as everyone seemingly requires an incentive to perform any act; without some personal gain, people are not prepared to extend themselves. That is why a quality such as altruism can only be imparted to a person from Above, and only those who have experienced it can understand it." Attaining The Worlds Beyond is a first step toward discovering the ultimate fulfillment of spi...
...ings is beyond our comprehension; we seem to require an incentive to perform any act that does not promise us some form of personal gain. That is why a quality such as altruism can only be imparted to us from Above, and only those of us who have experienced it can understand it. Rabbi Michael Laitman ......
...s of Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 18. The Omnipotent Magician Who Could Not Be Alone: A Tale for Grown Ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 19. Spiritual Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 20. The Return to t...
...‘Jarek’ takes a tongue in cheek swipe at the extreme elements of 'women’s liberation', while offering a serious alternative to the way we currently teach our children. ...
...Chapter 1. Zeno Skinny-dipping with Raylene’s friends was not Zeno’s idea of a fun night out. He’d only agreed because he wanted to seem tough, and hoped if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop spreading rumours he was queer. The cars screeched to a halt at the b...
...Chapter 1 Zeno Chapter 2 Stephen Chapter 3 Jarek Chapter 4 Bindi, Irma, Belle & Ari Chapter 5 Adele is Taught a Lesson Chapter 6 Marriage Chapter 7 Bindi & Adele Chapter 8 Preparations Chapter 9 Cador Chapter 10 What to Wear? Chapter 11 Eros Chapter 13 Acceptance Chapter 14 Secrets Chapter 15 National Park Chapter 16 Waterf...
...e of ConTenTs Princess Peony ..............................................4 A House that No One Lived In ................... 12 Miracles Can Happen! ... ...of ConTenTs Princess Peony ..............................................4 A House that No One Lived In ................... 12 Miracles Can Happen! ..... ................... 12 Miracles Can Happen! .................................20 A Never Ending Miracle .............................28 The T wo Chefs ...... .................44 Mary and the Paints .................................... 52 A Present for the Little Bunny .....................60 How a Firefly Lear... ...music separately, we would all play together in harmony… as one man. 12 A House tHAt no one Lived in By Ludmila Zolotareva 13 O nce upon time, i... ...3 O nce upon time, in a little village far away, there was an enormous old house with high stone walls and a magnificent doorway. But unlike all th...
...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexande... ...independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for t... ...eare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author... ...o me. Anak- toria came. Gyrinno came. Boys yelled. Old men rushed past the house. Dogs barked. Someone banged a drum. Such clamoring! But was it joy... ...carried the hymn. I could not remain any longer. I hurried home, past his house to mine, wondering what kind of haven it could be, wondering what pe... ...for him when he arrives? At my door I turned and retraced my steps to his house, the laces of my san- dals making a sound I had never heard before, t...
...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 rema...
...s reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,... ... 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author... ...lishing Services, London, ON; www.ardith.ca Printed and bound in Canada 3 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE CHAPTER 1 LACEY WILSON had given up trying to make frie... ...ted. She navigated the crooked pathway with bro- ken tiles that led to her house and opened the door, listening. The silence echoed in her ears. She m... ...y. “Get lost, you little shit,” Roger hissed, and she scuttled back to her house, tears falling again on hot, red cheeks. Numb with self-loathing, she... ...the week. On weekends he went shopping for food and grudgingly cleaned the house, but he never took Lacey with him to shop, or spent time with her at ...
...Lacey Wilson overcomes neglect in childhood and abuse in her first marriage to achieve fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indignity she thinks is coming and wants to die. Her beloved daughter, Jana, wi...
...dents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagination, or are used in a fictitious situation. Any resemblance to actual events, locat... ...nts Die 5 Chapter One Sunday Here already? Was that noise outside a car door? Royce Lee held his breath and stepped to the Chinese... ...e a car door? Royce Lee held his breath and stepped to the Chinese screen. Folding a panel, he looked out the window and let the pent-up air seep f... ...he said he phoned her with a cock-and-bull story about giving her the Cotton Street house. He was going to sign the deed in front of her, but then w... ...illions of dollars, two small children and a When Serpents Die 9 large household was no trot in the ring. Domestic organization wasn’t ... ...ss. “What turns Southern gentry like you into eccentrics and lunatics is your old houses, your old loyalties, your old longings, and your old rese...
... Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different story. Her instincts as an investigative reporting are tingling, and she just can't leave it alone. She meets Jack Rhodes, Royce's business partner. Sparks fly, but can she really trust a man she knows nothing abo...
...Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but w... ...rever" --Thucydides Part I Koan 0 There was tranquility to be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the ideali... ...estfulness of death; but though privileged enough to be impaired with such a substance and such a stance, Kenyon paid for this lengthy death afterwar... ... with eyes ravenous for space, beauty and freedom. This year and a half of house arrest of this policeman’s spouse, this most diminutive being, thoug... ...mother the way others did? Those hobbies with the two of them dressing up dolls, and disguising tissue boxes to look like dogs, and that time of ca... ...g onto her from water lilies. It was an impossible conflation of fertile housewife and nun, of being a mother and a bit of a brothel proprietor, of... ...t slipping out of the realm of what was human. The foreclosure on their house, the only home she had known, was the last circumstantial evidence c...
...Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her r... ...r sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poe... ... and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkab... ...o me. Anak- toria came. Gyrinno came. Boys yelled. Old men rushed past the house. Dogs barked. Someone banged a drum. Such clamoring! But was it joy... ...carried the hymn. I could not remain any longer. I hurried home, past his house to mine, wondering what kind of haven it could be, wondering what pe... ...for him when he arrives? At my door I turned and retraced my steps to his house, the laces of my san- dals making a sound I had never heard before, t...
...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a ...