![]() ![]() ![]() Where the golden hue of dawn and nature, represents the childhood innocence of goodness which eventually falls from our grasp. Which then inspired the common phrase, “stay gold,” and the poplar Stevie Wonder song. Hinton, and notably suggested by her character, Johnny, the poem may be interpreted as it denotes innocence or childhood goodness. “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” has been interpreted by several literary analysists as an allegory of grief or human mortality. Robert Frost has been long delegated as one of the greatest American poets, known for his profound verse, commonly associated with nature and natural elements, while representing different constituents experienced during life. Hinton’s young adult novel, The Outsiders. In 1923, the Yale Review had published Robert Frost’s short verse, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” which was later popularized by S. ![]()
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![]() "The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road." Considered by many to be Kipling's masterpiece, opinion appears varied about its consideration as children's literature or not. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. ![]() The novel made the term "Great Game" popular and introduced the theme of great power rivalry and intrigue. ![]() Kim unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Octavo, original cloth, original publisher’s decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, illustrated. ![]() New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901.įirst edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Black Kids brings a fresh perspective to YA literature as it draws attention to issues of the present by focusing on events in the past. The Black Kids is a sensitive and an empathetic look at finding and claiming one’s identity in an increasingly uncertain world. Ashley would not mind continuing living in blissful ignorance, but it becomes increasingly difficult as people she knows are swept up into the protests and the riots. After the death of Rodney King, however, the kids at school, as well as some of Ashley’s family members, begin speaking up about the injustices they see happening around them. ![]() Ashley Bennett is a senior in high school enjoying many of the perks that come with wealth, while largely ignoring the problems of the outside world. ![]() The Black Kids is a beautifully written novel that explores one girl’s coming of age in a time of turmoil. ![]() ![]() Jared begins to question Darkness itself as his world falls into chaos. Chaos erupts in the underground grottoes the Survivors’ faith in the holy Light is tested as people begin to disappear and their hot springs run dry. What follows him back to his home are strange monsters, bringing with them a terrible screaming silence. That is, until the plucky youth Jared passes beyond the barrier and ventures into the Original World looking for the mystery of Light. Bantam #J2266 – 1961 – one of many excellent covers by Mitchell Hooks.ĭeep underground, as far from the Original World as possible, live the Survivors: here they make do eating manna plants and raising herds of salamanders, sheltered from Radiation-the ultimate evil-and its twin devils Cobalt and Strontium. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bravo.ĪLSO IN BOOKPAGE: Go behind the scenes with the editors and producers of Four Hundred Souls, the year’s most astounding full-cast audiobook production. Listeners will learn and be moved, and will no doubt listen more than once. Offering the best of education and entertainment, this epic audiobook enhances Kendi and Blain’s transformative history project through the sense of humanity that only a person’s voice can convey. Discuss racism with every person of color who has time to share. Review on these books and recommend them as often as possible. The performances are straightforward or theatrical as appropriate, but they’re always engaging, and the variety of voices and styles sustains the listener’s attention. : Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Random House Large Print): 9780593402429: Kendi, Ibram X., Blain. ![]() Eighty-seven narrators comprise the full cast, including the authors of some of the essays and poems as well as other notable voices such as journalist Soledad O’Brien and actors Danai Gurira and Leslie Odom Jr. The book is divided into five-year periods that span 400 years of the Black American experience, and the audiobook transitions between each section via layered, echoing voices for a haunting, emotional effect. ![]() A heartfelt chorus of voices composes a well-researched community mosaic of Black American history in Ibram X. Book Review: Impressions of 400 years' oppression 'Four Hundred Souls' is a huge - and intersectional - overview of African American struggle Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. "An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them."-Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Georgeanna "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday's ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Martha Hall Kelly's million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book attracted enormous attention, much of it admiring. It was the best of times and the worst of times for Charles Darwin. George Eliot published Adam Bede and Charles Dickens produced A Tale of Two Cities. Samuel Smiles delivered Self Help, a classic in a genre that has kept publishing houses alive ever since. John Stuart Mill wrote his mighty work On Liberty. Alfred Lord Tennyson printed the first Idylls of the King, his long cycle of Arthurian poems. ![]() ![]() Origin was the book of the year - perhaps the book of the century - but it faced some stiff competition in 1859. The book was hailed, applauded, challenged, questioned, condemned, cruelly dismissed and, rather astonishingly, ignored: the president of the Geological Society of London in 1859 managed to give Darwin a medal of honour for his geological observations in the Andes and his stunning four-volume study on barnacles, without mentioning his seminal paper with Alfred Russel Wallace, or the forthcoming book. Much of the hostility and alarm came not overtly from religion, but from within science. ![]() ![]() ![]() In all, The Source of Self-Regard is a luminous and essential addition to Toni Morrison's oeuvre. And here too is piercing commentary on her own work (including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, and Paradise) and that of others, among them, painter and collagist Romare Bearden, author Toni Cade Bambara, and theater director Peter Sellars. She looks at enduring matters of culture: the role of the artist in society, the literary imagination, the Afro-American presence in American literature, and in her Nobel lecture, the power of language itself. In the writings and speeches included here, Morrison takes on contested social issues: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, "black matter(s)," and human rights. ![]() It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11 the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni. ![]() Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection-a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their second son Vivian was born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. ![]() In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 4 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).įrances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. ![]() ![]() Kafka is bound to be living in two different dimensions. That’s because the book is led by a dream-like narrative. You cannot rationalize while reading “Kafka on the Shore.” You simply get exhausted if you try. It sometimes pushes us to do our best, whereas sometimes it really brings out the deepest, darkest corners of our selves. Soon, we understand that, in fact, the boy named Crow is to Kafka the same as the inner voice that we have inside our heads. The book starts off with “The boy named Crow” telling him to toughen up, as he has got to be the bravest 15-year-old on the planet. Kafka Tamura is a young boy who runs away from home to escape from his father’s oedipal prophecy. It’s like you want to make sure you memorize the plot because, basically, most of your life seems reminiscent of what happens in the book. I read the book twice, holding my breath and turning the pages many times to see if I really understood the context. My perspective on “Kafka on the Shore” particularly was mixed. Even when he’s asked in many interviews about the meaning behind his characters or quotes, Murakami prefers to leave interpretation to the reader’s perspective. ![]() And that’s exactly what makes him so intriguing. The author manages to win many people’s hearts, although he does not always provide clear endings or interpretations of his writings. “Kafka on the Shore” is one of Murakami’s most famous novels. ![]() |