"The Collapse of Complex Societes", parts 1-2

https://abuss.narod.ru/Biblio/Tainter1-2.htm

as economics, art, and literature, but it fundamentally a matter of the sociopolitical sphere. A society has collapsed when displays a rapid, significant loss of an established le

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

https://www.ajhw.co.uk/books/book459.html

or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be

huckspage

https://www.uvm.edu/~sgutman/huckspage.html

on American Literature.  Outsider and Technologies are both available from Amazon.com while the others are available from Powell's Books . I also work as Senior Aide to Repre

Minerva Systems

http://minervaclassics.com/

topics: Classical literature, computers and humanities, railroads and engineering, architecture, music, and movies, and the aesthetic appreciation of the marvels of the built envi

Victorian Age, by William Ralph Inge

https://www.ajhw.co.uk/books/book78/book78.html

enlightened patrons of literature and art, and made the collections of masterpieces which were the pride of England, and which are now being dispersed to the winds. Their librarie

Why I am so clever

http://nietzsche.holtof.com/Nietzsche_ecce_homo/eh2.html

of this most appalling literature: what do I care about the wretched gabble of American fools and half-wits? But the power for the greatest realism in vision is not only compatibl

Isegoria

http://www.isegoria.net/

I was doing felt like “literature.” In their place, I pulled out my old Olivetti typewriter from the closet. Then, as an experiment, I decided to write the opening of my novel in

ERBzine 1523: Darrell Richardson Profile VII

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Communist literature. The list of authors whose works are outlawed includes Louis Bromfield, A.J. Cronin, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, John P. Marquand and P.G. Wodehouse. Books spe

19th Century Spalding Claims Fiction

http://solomonspalding.com/Lib/SpldFict.htm

writers of English literature; after which we would remain till the night had far advanced, enjoying the beautiful compositions of Beethoven, Gluck, and Mozart, or the brilliant o

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Essay on Burns, by Thomas Carlyle

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69284/69284-h/69284-h.htm

BURNS *** The Riverside Literature Series ESSAY ON BURNS BY THOMAS CARLYLE EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY GEORGE R. NOYES HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY Boston: 4 Park Stree

Bits and Pieces of Camille Paglia

http://theabsolute.net/misogyny/paglia.html

compared to 99.9% of literature.   "[Spenser's] 'The Fairie Queene' makes cinema out of the west's primary principle: to see is to know; to know is to control. The Spens
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ERBzine 2192: Remembering Danton: News Release, Obituary, Follow-Up Stories

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intimate knowledge of literature that his grandpa wrote," Sullos told The Times this week. "He could pull out of historical documents things people didn't even know existed." One

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