![]() ![]() ![]() Shakespeare's work is the reason John Bartlett compiled the first major book of familiar quotations. No author in the Western world has penned more beloved passages. If you cannot find words to express how you feel about love or music or growing older, Shakespeare can speak for you. Shakespeare's ability to summarize the range of human emotions in simple yet profoundly eloquent verse is perhaps the greatest reason for his enduring popularity. The following are the top four reasons why Shakespeare has stood the test of time. ![]() While most people know that Shakespeare is, in fact, the most popular dramatist and poet the Western world has ever produced, students new to his work often wonder why this is so. Why Study Shakespeare? The Reasons Behind Shakespeare's Influence and Popularityīen Jonson anticipated Shakespeare's dazzling future when he declared, "He was not of an age, but for all time!" in the preface to the First Folio. ![]()
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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Hampton Sides’ Blood and Thunder is a sprawling account of the opening of the American southwest. This is the kind of book that spoils you for other books. Narbona could not have known that “The Army of the West,” in the midst of the longest march in American military history, was merely the vanguard of an inexorable tide fueled by a self-righteous ideology now known as “Manifest Destiny.” For twenty years the Navajo, elusive lords of a huge swath of mountainous desert and pasturelands, would ferociously resist the flood of soldiers and settlers who wished to change their ancient way of life or destroy them. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been vanquished-but what did the arrival of these “New Men” portend for the Navajo? He had come to see if the rumors were true-if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won-a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently, in Birthday Letters Hughes depicts Plath, like Actaeon, as suffering dismemberment in the collection’s penultimate poem ‘The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother’. In the following passage from ‘Echo and Narcissus’, for example, Hughes likens Echo’s obsession for Narcissus to the hunger of a starving wolf, while maintaining Ovid’s original concluding image of passion as a dangerous conflagration: One day, when she observedNarcissus wandering in the pathless woods,she loved him and she followed him, with softand stealthy tread.-The more she followed himthe hotter did she burn, as when the flameflares upward from the sulphur on the torch. when you don't have to?' Tales from Ovid (Paperback). Unvoiced supplementary clauses hung in the air: '. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kim Yi Dionne: In your book, two events prominently feature as moments for collective action: the International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers and the International Day for Sex Workers. In this week’s installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, we feature a Q&A with Mgbako, author of “ To Live Freely in This World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa.” What do African sex workers really need? A 33-year-old sex worker and activist in Kenya, Phelister Abdalla, put it plainly: “ … to live freely in this world.” Chi Adanna Mgbako’s revolutionary book takes that response as its title, which is fitting, given that the body of research she presents includes long narratives told by her research subjects: sex worker activists in Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents had separated during her school days and neither had time for her in their new lives. Renu feels stifled and unloved but doesn’t know how to escape from it. He comes home infrequently and when he does, his wife is last of his concerns. Her husband Dev is an absent partner as he has chosen to relocate for work in a nearby town. Renu is a middle-aged housewife who lives a rote life between upbringing her two children, caring for a cantankerous father in law and her household chores. She focuses her writing on women centric issues and is listed among the top women authors to follow on Twitter. So what? Her short stories have appeared in Love across Borders, Stories for your Valentine and NAW anthology 2013. Shuchi Singh Kalra is the Amazon best-selling author of two novels – Done with men and I’m Big. Title: A cage of desires Author: Shuchi Singh Kalra Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin India ![]() So on this exciting premise, I eagerly began to read A cage of desires and then I couldn’t put it down. I love the story of the Phoenix and consider myself one in fact I believe most people go through a fire of hardships to rise again as stronger human beings. “To every Phoenix that rises from the ashes” is on the beginning to the book and I was quite intrigued by it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve listened to the first two books of the M A Nichols “Regency Love” series and I am very impressed! The author is a great at developing complex and interesting characters in stories that are relatable trials and challenges in their lives. Set in Regency-era England, Flame and Ember is a sweet romance about overcoming the pains of the past and learning to love.Īudiobook one in the Regency Love series. Will Mina find a way to heal Simon’s heart? Or will the shadows of the past keep them from finding happiness together? She knows Simon is not marrying her for love but hopes it will blossom in his heart if only she can convince him that love comes in many forms. Facing a lifetime of being the spinster sister living on her brother’s charity, Mina considers something she never thought she would - a marriage of convenience. Mina Ashbrook longs for a loving marriage but accepts that at the age of 30, she is unlikely to find it. Love is no longer an option for a man whose heart is irrevocably broken. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, she wed another, and now, it is time to settle for someone with whom he can share his life. After years of searching, he finally found love. Simon Kingsley is in desperate need of a wife. A most inconvenient marriage of convenience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family in Leiden to whom she became very attached. Hermine " Miep" Gies ( Dutch pronunciation: née Santrouschitz 15 February 1909 – 11 January 2010) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family ( Otto Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank) and four other Dutch Jews ( Fritz Pfeffer, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels) from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. Miep and her husband Jan Gies at the book presentation of Miep Gies: Herinneringen aan Anne Frank (the Dutch version of the book Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family, 1987) in Anne Frankhuis near the moveable bookcase covering the stair to the secret hiding place "Achterhuis", Anne Frankhuis, Amsterdam. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anxiety & Wellbeing - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health. ![]()
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