![]() ![]() ![]() Learn more about Roald Dahl on the official Roald Dahl Web site: www.roalddahl. Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, including James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans. Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career.Īfter establishing himself as a writer for adults, Roald Dahl began writing children’s stories in 1960 while living in England with his family. One of Britain’s finest living illustrators, Quentin Blake has put pictures to more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator. ![]() He remains the world's number one storyteller. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I loved switching between past and present day. Golden transported me to a different time and made me really care about all of the characters. ![]() It’s the story of older, wiser versions of themselves reconnecting, and learning about each other again. It’s the lovely romance and hard times of two young people falling in love and then breaking apart. Luckily, Comeback Love is none of these things and all of them. Would it be heavy and sappy, sugary coated and too sweet? Would it be painful and sharp, watching this couple dissolve away onto to reconnect years later? What hurt and pain could they carry with them after all these years. I didn’t know what to expect from Comeback Love. To remember what they had? To rekindle what they lost? Gordon doesn’t know exactly, only that through his life, he always has felt he has left a part of himself with Glenna. When they broke up, Gordon left a part of his heart with Glenna. Many years ago, Gordon and Glenna had a long and deep romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, to get a sense of that, you have to have it in your ear and feel the sound and the rhythm and the quality, the timbre, the expression of the voices that we have in these novels. Literary art is a verbal art, and I think too often we only read it silently probably not since you were children that people read to you so much. ![]() Why do I do it? Well, there are two reasons, one because I want you to hear literary art. ![]() You may have noticed that I am very fond of reading aloud to you from these novels. It’s useful to you when you think about writing a paper to remember, if it’s been a long time since you’ve written an English paper, or even if it isn’t a long time since you’ve written an English paper, that the facts that we, literary critics, and you, writers on literature, the facts that we deal with are the details of the text itself. We have just the one day on this novel, and what I’m going to be doing for you is modeling the way literary critics use evidence to advance an argument. It is really going to give you a whole packaged reading of Franny and Zooey. It is going to give you a way into Franny and Zooey, but it’s going to actually give you more than a way into it. Professor Amy Hungerford: In light of the fact that I have just sent you paper topics, my lecture today is going to do two things. Forming a Literary Argument: Advice for Paper Writing The American Novel Since 1945 ENGL 291 - Lecture 10 - J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And even if the relationship in this case wasn’t able to succeed at the time, the love that was shared seemed to have lasting value and was never forgotten. The poems are also filled with that joyous bliss of being loved by someone who cares deeply. The poems captured that feeling of desire that many of us have had, coupled with a crippling sense of always looking to the external for fulfillment. Like the young woman in the poems, I too wanted to embrace love wholly and completely. ![]() It’s filled with passion, and it clearly comes straight from her heart.Īs I read the poems, I was reminded of how I felt many years ago when I was starting out on my own path. Review: “Passionate poetry that clearly comes straight from the poet’s heart.”Įeva Lancaster’s beautiful book of poetry provides a poignant portrayal of a young woman in love. In the end, Lancaster shares her hopes too, her triumphs and beautiful self realizations. ![]() It is sad and painful, as the author shares her emotional journey and bares her pain and longing in her poems. In Loving You is a collection of 52 poems that tells the story of Eeva Lancaster’s love for a man she couldn’t have. In Loving You: 52 Poems and Ballads of Love and Self Discoveryĭescription: To love someone but you can’t have them… even if they love you back… is one of the hardest things in life to accept. ![]() ![]() The story comes full circle at the end and it’s executed perfectly! I would say more, but it’s absolutely a spoiler. I really enjoyed the multiple POV’s in this book because we got to see Jade’s inner turmoil/bad side as well as how those around her were affected by her problems and what they were thinking about the situation. ![]() I’d love to go into detail, but I can’t because I don’t want to spoil the book for other anticipating readers. There are so many heartwarming moments and just as many heartbreaking moments. ![]() There are many twists to this story that match Jade’s “mood swings” and it is impossible to stop reading. There are new, interesting and lovable characters to enjoy/cry over as well as old favorites! Jade continues to battle with the fact that she is falling and does everything with the help of Blake, Claire and Nate to try and stop it. This book was everything you want in a conclusion! It picks up right where the previous book ends with explanations of the past events, so it’s easy to jump back into the story. ![]() “Thank you Lucy Swing for sending me an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Translation is a tricky business, and Rilke is considered one of the hardest poets to properly translate. I have seem some absolutely atrocious published translations of "Autumn Day," so I wanted to make sure I posted the one I liked best. ![]() This particular translation is by Stephen Mitchell, who is personally my favorite translator of Rilke. ![]() This poem is a bit of a downer, but the language is quite beautiful and honest. This poem always reminds me of her and the autumn we spent together in a poetry class, collecting work we liked and chatting about Rilke once a week during an early lunch. I once had a friend who loved this poem so much that she memorized it within a day and could just drop it whenever she liked. This particular poem, "Autumn Day" ("Herbsttag" in the original German) is one of my favorite Rilke pieces. Many of you may know that Rainer Maria Rilke is one of my absolute favorite writers, and the author of my favorite poems, the Duino Elegies. In honor of Fall beginning to settle upon us (well, not officially, but it's starting to feel like Autumn nonetheless), I have decided to share a poem about the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As I got back up to speed on Civil War history, he became for me even less than a mythical hero and actually less imaginable as a person. By the time I moved to New York as a grown-up and lived across the street from his tomb, my reverence had been displaced (how could I admire someone who had led so many men to their deaths and whose armies had killed so many people?), but I got accustomed to visiting with my baby son the ever-temperate mausoleum and peering at the raised polished red granite caskets of Grant and his wife. When I was a boy reading Civil War histories that were way over my head, I admired the slight and ruffled, soft-spoken commander, vividly imagining him to myself. At the turn of the 20th century, he was seen with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as one of the United States’s three great presidents. At that point, the younger Grant, a West Point graduate but now a civilian shopkeeper, had no idea that he himself would become the Union’s savior and the United States’s war hero in his own time, respected eventually even in the South. Grant wrote his father at the start of the American Civil War. “THERE ARE BUT two parties now, Traitors & Patriots, and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter,” Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Entrées-Edwardian Leg of Lamb, Lobster Pudding, Oyster Roll, Leek Pie, Downton Pheasant Casserole, Pork Loaf with Apples.Side Dishes-Asparagus in Cider Sauce, Baked Creamed Turnips, Shredded Spiced Brussels Sprouts, Savory Caraway Cabbage. ![]() Soups-Majestic Potato Soup, Royal Cheddar Cheese Soup, Stilton Chowder.Infinite variety of breads-Dinner Biscuits, Estate Oat Bread, Downton Dinner Rolls, and many more.Starting with an elegant array of savory tea sandwiches and sweets from traditional high tea, this book guides you through dinner at the Edwardian table with its: With 80 delicious recipes, this cookbook celebrates the phenomenal success of the series and the culinary wonders enjoyed by the aristocracy in Edwardian England. A celebration of the Edwardian table with 80 tantalizing and easy-to-make recipes.The PBS Masterpiece series Downton Abbey has taken the world by storm. ![]() ![]() Suicide has been legalized, and has been made generally and readily accessible in the newly established "Government Lethal Chambers" being rapidly rolled out across other towns and cities. ![]() The rise of a new aristocratic elite in the United States has reduced the influence and immigration of foreigners, and this is particularly evident in the case of Jews. Due to his accident, Hildred is a prime example of an unreliable narrator.Īs related by Hildred, the United States has apparently prospered in the meantime, significantly improving its infrastructure. He is subsequently committed to an asylum for treatment of insanity by Dr. ![]() It is told from the view of Hildred Castaigne, a young man whose personality changes drastically following a head injury sustained by falling from his horse. The story is set in New York City in the year 1920, 25 years after the story's publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We left Monrovia and hid in a village for six months before my mother was able to send someone to get us across the border,” Moore says. Moore was living with her father and sisters at the time, while her mother, a Fulbright scholar, was studying abroad at Columbia University. The seven-year conflict would kill 250,000 people and displace around half of the country’s 2.1 million population. ![]() ![]() “Representation is important.”Īs Africa’s first independent republic, Liberia began as a settlement of the American Colonisation Society, which believed freed African American slaves would fare better there.īorn in Monrovia in 1985, Moore was four years old when the first Liberian civil war broke out. “It was in reading that I was able to make sense of my new country,” Moore says of her early days in the US. And somehow she also found time to write a novel: She Would Be King, a fantastical retelling of Liberia’s founding. She started One Moore Book, a non-profit publisher of children’s books for underrepresented communities, after seeing first-hand how children engaged better with characters that look like them. ![]() The Liberian-American author and social entrepreneur opened her own bookshop, One Moore Bookstore, Liberia’s first dedicated to reading for pleasure. Wayétu Moore, however, believes differently. Had there never been any art, he claimed, “the history of man would be materially unchanged”. W H Auden once said it was a “fallacious belief that art ever makes anything happen”. ![]() |