![]() ![]() Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Adichie has been invited t Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Considering that Shakespeare was both an extraordinary artist and savvy businessman, this seems like a scenario he could only have admired. A huge amount of time, money, intelligence, creativity, and all-around talent goes into designing and playing videogames. Which is pretty incredible, I think, given that more than one third of the world’s population plays videogames, and that the gaming industry is larger than the film and music industries combined. If Shakespeare represents the highest of high culture for many people, then videogames represent the lowest of low. Even worse, if the digital project in question is a videogame, the reactions become even more scathing. One thing I discovered through this research, however – part of which I was lucky enough to undertake at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2017 – is that many people still have an aversion to putting the words ‘Shakespeare” and “digital” together in the same sentence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanour soon earn his genuine, if reserved, love. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the Alm, which has earned him the nickname 'The Alm-Uncle'. Shortly after the grandmother's death, Dete is offered a good job as a maid in the big city, and takes 5-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from Dörfli. Heidi is initially raised by her maternal grandmother and Dete in Maienfeld. Soon after Tobias is killed in a work accident and Adelheid dies of shock. ![]() They have a daughter, named Adelheid but affectionately nicknamed Heidi. Adelheid and Tobias marry and work as carpenters. When they grow, Dete takes a job in the town of Maienfeld, in the Grisons, as a hotel maid. Two village girls, Dete and Adelheid, befriend Tobias. The man becomes known as The Alm-Uncle, as he lives in seclusion on the mountain Alm. Upon his return with a son, Tobias, the villagers ostracize him and create rumors surrounding his life in Naples. ![]() The older wasted the family fortune on drinking and gambling, while the younger ran away to serve in the Italian Army in Naples. In the town of Dörfli ('small village' in Swiss German), lived two brothers. Aunt Dete hurrying away after leaving Heidi with her grandfather ![]() ![]() ![]() It is one of a small number of books to win the Hugo, Locus and Nebulas Awards for Best Novel. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. ![]() The Dispossessed (in later printings titled The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia ) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. ![]() Le Guin (1929 – 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. ![]() ![]() Be prepared to cross the line at every turn. What will she do? This story is the first installment of the Taboos & Temptations Collection by Author Ilianna Binoche. Angel Brooks is an African American woman who finds a man dying in the snow but she doesn't know he carries a secret which could endanger her life. ![]() But there's just one problem, she's BLACK. ![]() When Cole next opens his eyes, an angel appears before him. When he realizes he has been betrayed at the hands of those he loves and trust, he doesn't understand the depth of the betrayal until he feels his own life slipping away. īook 1 of the Taboos & Temptations Collection: Cole McGregor is a fourth generation Neo-Nazi who doesn't care about anyone or anything. Angel Brooks is an African American woman who finds a man dying in the snow but she doesn't know he carries a secret. ![]() ![]() Book 1 of the Taboos & Temptations Collection: Cole McGregor is a fourth generation Neo-Nazi who doesn't care about anyone or anything. ![]() ![]() ![]() He begins selling his clothing, and then pawning his clothing, as he searches for a job with a Russian waiter. He earns income for a little while teaching English, but this dries up. He loses his savings when an Italian compositor makes a copy of his room key. His descent into poverty is given all the airs of a tragic-comedy. He describes the atmosphere of Paris at that time, with all its unusual characters, art scene, and immigrant population. In the first half of Down and Out, he describes his experiences in Paris. ![]() After a serious illness, he returns to London and begins to write. He then moved to Paris into the Latin Quarter, a bohemian section of town known for its writers and artists. When Orwell first left his post in Burma as a police officer, he moved to London to travel and publish material for different journals, including what would be the first workings of the second half of his manuscript. ![]() ![]() He gives details of working in Paris in near homeless conditions as well as travel experiences in London. It details his time spent in Paris and London just before publishing his first novel. Down and Out in Paris and London is a memoir on poverty by George Orwell published in 1933. ![]() ![]() ![]() The surgery occurs on your sixteenth birthday and before that you are an Ugly. Based on scientific study and evolution theory Pretties are supposed to be the new and better human race. Pretties are people modified by plastic surgery to be strong, healthy and of course, be beautiful. ![]() Westerfeld’s fast pacing writing style describes a post-apocalyptic world that is divided between Pretties and Uglies. I added the four books to my pile of Holiday Reads and the promising blurb “Before The Hunger Games there was… Uglies” lured me into reading these novels first. Scott Westerfeld’s The Uglies Quartet, a classic in the YA-dystopian genre, was our summer read. This way anyone who couldn’t be there, can still join in with the fun! Our eleventh YA book is the Uglies Quartet by Scott Westerfeld and the review is written by Gwen Kerkhof Mogot. For every book we read during the book club, one of our book club members will write a review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her success was in part the product of a new type of commercial publishing, itself one aspect of the accelerating consumerism of the 1950s, and of the decade's appetite for youth and novelty in the aftermath of defeat and humiliation. She was a highly mediatised star in France from her dramatic arrival on the literary scene in 1954, aged just 18, with the scandalous Bonjour Tristesse, and on through the following decades, remaining an instantly recognisable name and face up to and beyond her death in 2004. In the 1950s and ‘60s, Françoise Sagan's concise, elegant tales of love and disillusion, set among an affluent yet bohemian section of the French middle class, attracted a readership of millions both at home and abroad. The most successful middlebrow fiction captures, through compelling stories, some vital element of the mood, aspirations and anxieties of its era. ![]() ![]() ![]() Show more Download Available now 42 minutes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Įach affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Lyrical Ballads Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 volume of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Important letters are included, as well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. It offers modern readers a sense of what it was like to encounter Lyrical Ballads for the first time, and to see how it developed. ![]() This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with the fullest version of the Preface and Wordsworth's important Appendix on Poetic Diction. ![]() Wordsworth's famous Preface is a manifesto not just forRomanticism but for poetry in general. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more. ![]() 'Listen, Stranger!'Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, a guy friend should be measured by the times he’s there for you. The guy can totally lift heavy objects for me, and what woman doesn’t want her own personal furniture lugger at her disposal?īut honestly, none of this would matter if Spencer didn’t possess the most important attribute of all. ![]() Plus, how about his arms? Let’s just take a moment to admire his biceps and their abilities. The trouble is I’m already falling for him before we even start. Sarcastic, self-deprecating, and always at attention with a joke-that’s him.Įxcept, it’s no joke when he asks me to be his fake fianceé for a week. Spencer Holiday makes me laugh like no one ever has. He has this one fantastic bone in his body. Nights With Him (A standalone novel about Michelle and Jack)įorbidden Nights (A standalone novel about Nate and Casey)Ī two-book sexy contemporary romance seriesĪ Big Rock short story told from Charlotte’s POVīut don’t just take my word for it. One More Night (Julia and Clay, book three)Ī Wildly Seductive Night (Julia and Clay novella, book 3.5) Night After Night (Julia and Clay, book one)Īfter This Night (Julia and Clay, book two) ![]() First Night (Julia and Clay, prequel novella) ![]() |