![]() ![]() ![]() Accused of publishing materials critiquing the government, Dostoevsky was exiled to Siberia for five years, beginning in 1849, and his experiences there informed his character Raskolnikov’s exile in his novel Crime and Punishment. ![]() He also showed signs of epilepsy, greatly interrupting his professional and personal life. Dostoevsky began a career as an engineer and, in his free time, wrote and translated. His mother died of tuberculosis when Dostoevsky was a young man. While he was there, it is believed his father was killed by serfs on his own plantation. A sickly but intelligent child, Dostoevsky was sent to a military engineering academy, which he hated. His father Mikhail was a military doctor who later secured a government position and an acquired rank of nobility. One of eight children, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born to a family lineage of middle-class businessmen and petty nobles. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The dedicatory verses hide the names of the dedicatee (Isa Bowman and Enid Stevens respectively), the former one doubly. The books were not a success in fact new copies of the second volume were still being sold as late as 1939. are rightly described by Dodgson (Preface, p. There is hardly any plot: Sylvie and Bruno, after living with a Warden, Sub-Warden, Professor, Beggar, Gardener, Uggug (the young artist) and others, are conducted by the Gardener into Elfland, ride on a lion, visit Dogland, and so on. Somehow the light and airy touch of ALICE is wanting, but there is plenty of amusing incident and entertaining verse. the principles on which he introduces many solemn pages into his fairy tale, the serious subjects of life and science cannot be thus inserted without marring the effect of the whole. SYLVIE AND BRUNO, with its conclusion in 1893, was the last considerable work by Dodgson. First Editions of Carroll's rather serious fairy tales. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. With Forty-six Illustrations by Harry Furniss. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many have tried to destroy the Emperor: a vengeful gladiator, an upright senator, a tormented soldier, a Vestal Virgin. But Domitian’s games have a darker side, and Thea finds herself fighting for both soul and sanity. Unwittingly, she attracts another admirer in the charismatic Emperor of Rome. His love brings Thea the first happiness of her life-that is quickly ended when a jealous Lepida tears them apart. As Lepida goes on to wreak havoc in the life of a new husband and his family, Thea remakes herself as a polished singer for Rome’s aristocrats. Purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia, Thea will become her mistress’s rival for the love of Arius the Barbarian, Rome’s newest and most savage gladiator. Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, passionate, musical, and guarded. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book follows the relationship between Colton Donavan and Rylee Thomas. Since then she has written the Driven series, a few standalone Driven novels, and a short story titled UnRaveled.ĭriven is the first book in the Driven trilogy series by K Bromberg. She decided to write a book on a whim when her husband’s job required a lot of travel. She wrote a book right after college that gathered interest from some agents, but decided she did not want to rewrite it to fit someone else’s idea of what an acceptable book is. In high school English class, she had a penchant for writing papers that were way longer than the requirement, and was a major stickler about grammar. She graduated from the University of California San Diego with a degree in political science. K Bromberg lives in southern California and is a wife and mother of 3. ![]() Her books follow the female character’s journey to find out who they are and become comfortable with their sexuality. The mixture of explicit sex scenes with a detailed plot line has brought her more popularity that crosses genres. With her books falling in between the genres of erotic and contemporary romance, K Bromberg is truly an exciting author to read. ![]() Her favorite characters to write about are known to be strong, confident heroines and damaged heroes that can give her readers mixed emotions about whether to love or hate them. She writes contemporary novels that combine an emotional style with realism and heaps of sex appeal. K Bromberg is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author. ![]() ![]() ![]() The highly regulated world of the konbini, where each action is prescribed by the corporate manual, allows her to maintain an identity acceptable to those around her and a sense of purpose. She has known since childhood that she is "different" and that expressing her own views and actions is inexplicable and distressing to others, and causes problems. Keiko Furukura is a 36-year-old woman who has been working part-time at a convenience store, or konbini, for the last 18 years. The book has further been translated into more than thirty languages. ![]() The translation, by Ginny Tapley Takemori, was released by Grove Press (US) and Portobello Books (UK) in 2018. The novel has sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan and is the first of Murata's novels to be translated into English. It was first published in the June 2016 issue of Bungakukai and later as a book in July 2016 by Bungeishunjū. Aside from writing, Murata worked at a convenience store three times a week, basing her novel on her experiences. The novel won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016. It captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much part of life in Japan. ![]() Convenience Store Woman ( Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After Belle’s parents separated during her adolescence, Genevieve changed her surname and that of her children to Greene. Her father was the first Black graduate of Harvard College and a prominent educator, diplomat, and racial justice activist. ![]() Greener (1844–1922), Belle Greene (named Belle Marion Greener at birth) grew up in a predominantly African American community in Washington, DC. The daughter of Genevieve Ida Fleet Greener (1849–1941) and Richard T. Not only did Greene build one of the most important collections of rare books and manuscripts in the United States, but she also transformed an exclusive private collection into a major public resource, originating the robust program of exhibitions, lectures, publications, and research services that continues today. Pierpont Morgan and then his son, Jack, and later as the inaugural director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (now the Morgan Library & Museum). She ran the Morgan Library for forty-three years-initially as the private librarian of J. Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum, ARC 1664.īelle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was one of the most prominent librarians in American history. ![]() ![]() Initially repulsed by his recovery program's maudlin language and mind-numbing platitudes, Burroughs eventually makes a steadfast, equally incredulous friend in rehab, finds his own salvation and confidently re-enters society. and the check?' " Alas, Burroughs's co-workers are tired of him embarrassing clients by spraying Donna Karan for Men not only around his neck but also on his tongue to mask the tangy miasma of alcohol, and they insist he seek help. The real Augusten would say, 'Could I get a Bloody Mary, extra Tabasco. ![]() Asked to sign reams of legal forms before entering rehab, he notes, "the real Augusten would never stand for this. Burroughs has a knack for ending up in depraved situations and a vibrant talent for writing about them. None of the many readers of Burroughs's mordant memoir debut, Running with Scissors, would doubt that its entertainingly twisted author could manage, by page 41 of his new installment, to check himself into America's frumpiest alcohol rehab facility for gays. ![]() ![]() ![]() 25 Recommended Reads about Race, Racism, and Demarginalizing History - Necessary Non-fiction You Should Read for Life-changing Insights and Impact.80+ Must-read Novels by Black Writers - Black Lit Matters.Discover the Drama of the Courtroom in These 20 Fabulous Novels Celebrating National Crime Reading Month.Guest Editor, Summer 2023 - Vaseem Khan.June 2023 Book Club Recommendation: When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent.13 Books to Support and Celebrate Caregivers for National Carers Week. ![]() The Joffe Books Prize Is Open Once Again and on the Look out for New Talent.60 + Novels Highlighting Empathy and Compassion - for National Empathy Day 8 June.Celebrate Read Caribbean Month and the achievements of the Windrush generation by reading 20+ brilliant books for National Windrush Day, 22nd June. ![]() ![]() Either way, you should be able to adapt to situation. Or to the contrary, you might see that a group of people needs someone to direct the discussion. You might assess that someone else has taken a lead role in a meeting and therefore you let them lead. Gruenfeld welcomes this flexibility of power and encourages her readers to think about playing power up and playing power down depending on a situation. One might be a powerful businessman in the office and be reduced to complete helplessness by one’s disobedient teenager at home. “Power” is an artificial and relative construct – dependent entirely on the situation one is placed in. ![]() ![]() This is aligned to the main thesis of her book. In fact, it seems she teaches a class on “acting” with power – working on her students’ portrayal of various dramatic roles in order to raise their confidence. ![]() Gruenfeld does genuinely mean “acting” in the same way as Judi Dench would do. The first thing to note is that “Acting with power” is not necessarily meant as “behaving with power”. Gruenfeld was talking a little about the idea of power as a service done to others rather than as being wielded for its own sake.Īs this seemed interesting, I reached for her book. I came across this book because I was listening to a podcast which featured an interview with its author. ![]() ![]() Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father’s plantation, that bright April afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin - that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. ![]() ![]() Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. This online edition was created and published by Global Grey on the 25th August 2021. ![]() |