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An English translation was published in 1982 by Monthly Review Press. [1] Structured as a series of fragments, the book varies in tone from straight journalism to expressionism and poetic lyricism and in genre from short story to aphorism to biography. [ 2 ]
a German wine ("down their four-and-twenty throats went four-and-twenty imperial pints of such rare old hock" – Charles Dickens) (US: Rhine wine) Hocktide, an ancient holiday hock (zoology) pawn (n. & v.) ("I can borrow a dime from the barber, an' I got enough junk to hock for a blowout" – Jack London); prison (both from Dutch) * debt
A searchable online version of Aylmer Maude's English translation of War and Peace; English Audio War and Peace public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Commentaries Homage to War and Peace Searchable map, compiled by Nicholas Jenkins, of places named in Tolstoy's novel (2008). Birth, death, balls and battles by Orlando Figes. This is an edited ...
Love & War, a 1990s American sitcom; Love and War (Iraqi TV series), 2003; Love and War (Australian TV series), 1967; Love and War, a Swedish animated film; Love and War, an Australian TV movie; The Clinic for Married Couples: Love and War, a South Korean TV program; Love & War, an upcoming Indian film
The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.
Their findings were similar, but not identical, to the findings of the OEC analysis. According to The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all written English. [3]
archaic legal term for one who commits suicide, referring to early English common law punishments, such as land seizure, inflicted on those who killed themselves fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt: men generally believe what they want to: People's beliefs are shaped largely by their desires. Julius Caesar, The Gallic War 3.18: festina ...
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language.