![]() ![]() ![]() His mother did not want him to abandon his other studies to focus solely writing but was still supportive of his books, urging him to publish The Picts and the Martyrs in 1943, despite Evgenia hating it. Arthur’s dad was a history professor at Yorkshire College, and his dad’s premature death in 1897 had a long lasting effect on him. He was the oldest of four kids: with two sisters (Joyce and Cecily) and a brother named Geoffrey who got killed in the First World War in the year 1918. Signalling From Mars: The Letters of Arthur RansomeĪrthur Ransome's Long-Lost Study of Robert Louis StevensonĪrthur Michell Ransome was born Januin Leeds, and was an English journalist and author. The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers ![]()
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![]() ![]() Finally, there is the Appendix, the Public Reading version of the text. Hearn’s meticulous research has unearthed a plethora of details, adding to the complexity of the tale: Dickens’ autobiographical details, as well as an historical perspective, the where and how of the first printing and Dickens’ oration that so enchanted his audiences. ![]() The particular archaic language is explained, as well as its origins. Since the 1976 version, the Oxford University Press has published the letters of Charles Dickens, opening up a wealth of new material for Michael Patrick Hearn to glean more details, including behind-the-scenes machinations of the original publication. One who loves books cannot fail to appreciate the qualities of this reissue: the stories behind the story, people and places, customs and phrases. The Annotated Christmas Carol is that wonderful blend of hope, poverty, ghosts and folklore that illustrates the theme of greed versus generosity and kindness in the Victorian era. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is as much a part of this holiday season as It’s a Wonderful Life. The perfect gift for traditionalists, with a great helping of booklore, trivia and anecdotes to complete the literary feast, this is a reissue of the 1976 edition. The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in ProseĬharles Dickens, Michael Patrick Hearn, and illus. ![]() The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in Prose - book review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “You’re quite the silent type…But you were cheerful and funny once, yes?”-(p.512) “This experience was skillfully depicted in the song “Off to Defeat Insurgents”-(p.264) If it gets out that I wrote that, I’ll get kicked out of home!! I’m begging you! Even if someone asks you, don’t tell them it was me….Please… Thank you, thank you.”-(p.230) “It’s a confession! I wrote it down what was tormenting me and hid it. Praise Jehovah and revere the Jewish Scriptures.”-(p.228) For what shall it profit a man, if he shall fain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”-(p.224) But whosoever shall his life for my sake and the Gospel’s, the same shall save it. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. “Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ![]() “ Don’t tear apart our friendship! Please!!”-(p.205) “I wrote it down, prayed, and hid the note in a secret place that no one but I knew. Stand up to cast off discrimination and oppression…”-(p.146) “R-Right Kierkegaard is Cartesianized, and meanwhile Schopenhauer is the Uberkant… Is that what you people believe? Nazi common sense is so unlike ours.”-(p.76) “How can the Jews be an inferior race? There are plenty of great one… What about the founder of your religion? Jesus Christ was a Jew! What nonsense. “Didn’t anyone see my brother when he fell?!”-(p.20) ![]() ![]() The Belle of Amherst – Julie Harris (1977).Great American Documents – Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones, and Orson Welles (1976).Give 'em Hell, Harry! – James Whitmore (1975). ![]() Good Evening – Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (1974).Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Harris (1973).Lenny – Bruce Botnick (producer) & the Original Broadway Cast (1972).Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam – Martin Luther King Jr.We Love You Call Collect – Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter (1969). ![]() Kennedy: As We Remember Him – Goddard Lieberson (producer) (1965) Kennedy – That Was the Week That Was (1964) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee (playwright) (1963). ![]() ![]() ![]() STREETCAR was a controversial film when it was released in 1951. Their marriage is a roller coaster of mania, anger and passion. He clearly loves his wife, yet physically threatens her on a regular basis. Stanley’s character is complex for many reasons. Stella has adapted to her present poverty in New Orleans because of her love for her husband. ![]() Unlike her sister, Stella thinks not on herself, but on her violent, yet virile husband, Stanley. She is desperately self absorbed, a tragic, pathetic figure. Blanche is living in her memories of her past in Belle Reve, the DuBois family home. Blanche is visiting her sister Stella (Kim Hunter), Stanley’s wife. ![]() Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois and Marlon Brando as Stanley create a brilliant and volatile screen relationship. Superb dialogue defines the renowned film version of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. ![]() ![]() This recording also includes a bonus audio interview with Yung Pueblo, in conversation with Tami Simon. This is a transformative guide to making our actions become more intentional, our decisions more compassionate, our thinking clearer and our future much brighter. the courage you both have to stay committed to the inner journey will reflect brightly on your relationship.Īn unabridged audiobook, read by the author. In Lighter, yung pueblo reveals how we can all move forward in our healing, from learning self-compassion and letting go to becoming emotionally mature. ![]() it will embrace you so unconditionally that you will feel safe enough to heal the old and put effort into the new. With his distinctive voice, at once spare and evocative, the author guides us through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. On the topic of intimate relationships, he reflects:įind a partner who accepts you as you are but also inspires you to evolve because they take their own growth seriously. In Clarity and Connection, Yung Pueblo explores how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react the ways we do. ![]() ![]() From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose that illuminates how past wounds impact our present relationships. Lighter by Yung Pueblo: 9780593233177 : Books 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An empathetic and wise book that will guide you on a journey toward a deeper understanding of self.Nedra. ![]() ![]() ![]() And there she meets someone who will show her that she has the power to remake her world. Alone and terrified, she finds herself hiding in Cinderella's tomb. And when Sophia's night at the ball goes horribly wrong, she must run for her life. are forfeit.But Sophia doesn't want to be chosen - she's in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball. ![]() And every girl knows that she has only one chance. ![]() Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she's tiny until the night she's sent to the royal ball for choosing. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. It's 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip’s parents die when he is less than a year old, but his cousin Ambrose raises him in their England home. The novel centers around the Ashley family. The language is intense and full of amazing imagery and astounding descriptions. The novel is written in first person point of view and told from the perspective of Philip Ashley, a 24-year-old English man set in a somewhat unknown time, but likely the early/mid twentieth century given some of the details in the background setting. ![]() It contains ~350 pages and took me four days to read. I purchased the Kindle Reader version from Amazon to read on my iPad. I’ve only started doing buddy reads in the last few months, but they are quite fun… I recommend them. We agreed on early March and got to it this week. We were both interested to see if it lived up to the hype and how it compared to the author’s other words. ![]() ![]() Earlier this year, a Goodreads buddy, Michael, and I were chatting about various books when we decided to do a buddy read together, selecting this wonderful Gothic edition. After reading Rebecca several years ago, I placed My Cousin Rachel, another of Daphne du Maurier‘s famed novels, on my To Be Read (TBR) shelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Promised Land and the other Spenser novels spawned the movie Spenser: For Hire and a string of made-for-TV movies. Parker's acclaim and his thorough background in classic detective literature helped earn him the somewhat unusual commission of completing a Philip Marlowe novel that the great Raymond Chandler had left unfinished. Best known for his portrayal of the tough but erudite investigator Spenser, Parker wrote over twenty-five novels over the course of his career, which began in 1973. Parker was one of contemporary fiction's most popular and respected detective writers. ![]() The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors such as Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane as not only influencing their own work but reviving and changing the detective genre. Parker was 77 when he died of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts discovered at his desk by his wife Joan, he had been working on a novel. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the late 1980s a series of TV movies based on the character were also produced. His most famous works were the novels about the private detective Spenser. Robert Brown Parker was an American crime writer. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database named Robert B. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The crevasses of Crevasse are geological and anatomical, but Nicholas Wong does not plumb their depths instead, his openings stay with the edges and aftermaths of feeling. In these poems of lyric grace and sharp intelligence, Nicholas Wong has written a bracing symphony to lonesomeness that is disarming, charming, and intellectually tough." "It is especially refreshing to encounter a poet who is as equally adept at excavating the sources and shapes of sentiment and passion as he is at untangling the knotty business of thought and meaning in verse. Wong is given to mad language, he ransacks the known, he's not concerned with my comfort, thank god he only wants to lay me down some knowledge. I am worried in Nicholas Wong's poems-as it should be-and I worry them, meaning I turn them over in my mind because I want less to understand them and more to be able to fit into them like odd garments. "Strange as it is to live in a human body one wants language to give full rein to that strangeness. Other poems by Nicholas Wong in Verse Daily: Described as a “firestarter†by Time Out: Hong Kong, he is on the teaching faculty of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Nicholas Wong received his MFA from City University of Hong Kong and has been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Award and the Wabash Prize for Poetry. Today's poem is "How to Refund Your Identity" Verse Daily: About Crevasse by Nicholas Wong ® ![]() |