![]() The inmate was Marle Woodson, a brilliant scholar and versatile athlete in college, a man who became one of the nation's youngest college presidents before launching an impressive journalism career.įor all its merit as a social document, its value as history or literature, Beyond the Door of Delusion mirrors tragedy in more ways than one - through Marle Woodson's vignettes of fellow inmates and through Woodson's reflection on his own life and the prospects for his future. West of the Mississippi, however, the identity of "Inmate Ward 8" was better known, inasmuch as journalists who reviewed the book recognized the author as one of their own. It is a powerful and uncommon social commentary on Depression-era America that provides insight into political and economic forces affecting a neglected underclass.įirst published in 1932, the book was attributed to "Inmate Ward 8," posing few problems for eastern book reviewers who cared nothing about the author but wished merely to attack or defend modern psychiatric practices. ![]() ![]() Behind the Door of Delusion is the memoir of a journalist whose friends committed him to an Oklahoma mental hospital in the early 1930s in a desperate attempt to cure him of alcoholism. ![]()
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![]() It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. ![]() The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. ![]() The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They lived in Kensington, London, then in Scotland and eventually the unfashionable end of Chelsea, camping out during wartime flying bomb attacks in the Dorchester hotel, which McAlpine had built, and where Agnes lived in style. Their socialite daughter, Yolande, wed a Royal Artillery officer, Gerald MacCarthy, who was killed in action in the North African desert in 1943, leaving adrift Yolande and two children – Fiona, still a toddler, and her baby sister Karin – and their nanny. Her great-grandfather was Sir Robert McAlpine, self-made builder and engineering contractor, whose daughter Agnes married a diplomat, the Baron de Belabre. She knew purposelessness makes people unhappy.Īs she explained in her memoir, The Last Curtsey (2006), she had crashed into this world of aesthetic choices from an unlikely height. The book both recreates his period peculiarity, and is a manifesto for his perpetual modernity MacCarthy, like Morris, wanted to find out the proper occupation for humans in a mechanical age. ![]() MacCarthy tramped Morris’s landscapes (“things dawn on you just being in the place”), made pilgrimage to his minor works, and understood the contradictions of his politics. ![]() ![]() Harrison and Linus make a pact to do all the things-big and small-they've been too scared to do. ![]() ![]() They end up on a mini road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party, all while keeping their respective parents, who track them on a family location app, off their trail. If they won't be having all the life-expanding experiences they thought they would, Harrison will squeeze them all into their last day. To keep from completely losing it-and partially inspired by a cheesy movie-night pick by his Dad-Harrison plans a send-off la Ferris Bueller's Day Off that's worthy of his favorite person. But at the end of a shift at their summer job, Linus invites Harrison to their special spot overlooking the city to deliver devastating news: he's moving out of state at the end of the week. ![]() Which is why Harrison is grateful that he and his best friend Linus will face these things together. Standardized testing, college, and the terrifying unknowns and looming pressures of adulthood after that-it's like the future wants to eat him alive. ![]() With junior year starting in the fall, Harrison feels like he's on the precipice of, well, everything. Two Black, queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore in this magnetic YA debut by celebrated cultural critic and bestselling Here For It author R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is revealed at the end of the story, however, that Farquhar has, in fact, been hanged and that these imaginings took place in the seconds before his death. As Farquhar stands on the bridge with a noose around his neck, Bierce leads the reader to believe that the rope breaks and that Farquhar falls into the water below, only to escape to his farm, where he is reunited with his wife. First published in Bierce’s short story collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians in 1891, the story centers on Peyton Farquhar, a southern planter who, while not a Confederate Soldier, is about to be hanged by the Union Army for attempting to destroy the railroad bridge at Owl Creek. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is one of the most widely anthologized American short stories and is considered Ambrose Bierce’s best work of short fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is both cute and a bit crazy, which could be a good combination for children. The nephew gave this 4 stars and then proceeded to come up with ways he might want to catch this elf. I enjoyed him while reading this book I thought was somewhat tedious. He has an excellent laugh that is catching. This is his kind of book and I love to hear him laugh. So while that book does little for me, it tickles my nephew to no end. The next page is Santa doing a Ski jump off a ramp of eggnog. He loved seeing a big cannon shooting hams and things at Santa and the elf, who dive for cover. The line, "Hey, you zapped my tushy!" had him laughing. It's not very Christmasy to me, but it's fun to hear the nephew laugh. ![]() All these modern gadgets are employed to catch this sneaky elf, but he has help from his pal, Ol' Saint Nick. I guess it's the Elf on a shelf helper or something. This is about catching an elf that hangs out with Santa. I think these 'How to' books are cute enough. This came in late from the library, so I'm putting this review up after the holiday anyway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To put this a bit differently and hopefully a bit clearer, “Everything that is alive on the planet is either a cell or made from a collection of cells.” This is the foundation of what biologists call “cell theory.” Just like atoms are the basic units of matter, cells are the basic functional units of life that is to say, the smallest entities that can be described as living. So, get ready for a historical and scientific walking tour through the complexity of existence! The cell: biology’s atom A firm believer in the idea that scientists should know how to effectively communicate their work, in “What Is Life?,” Nurse tries to illuminate, in beautifully readable language, the five great ideas that underpin biology: the cell, the gene, evolution by natural selection, life as chemistry, and life as information. In 2001, for his contributions to the discovery of protein molecules that regulate the division of cells, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with fellow countryman Tim Hunt and American biologist Leland Hartwell. British geneticist Paul Nurse has spent most of his adult life trying to understand how living cells work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The outraged king forces Lanval to submit to a trial: if he is able to summon a lady who turns out to be more beautiful than the queen, he will be exonerated otherwise, he will be banished from the court. When he rebuffs her advances, she accuses him of homosexuality, telling King Arthur that in fact she had been the one to refuse Lanval and that, moreover, Lanval had boasted of having a lover more beautiful than Guinevere herself. Lanval being tried in court.īack in Arthur’s court, Lanval gains a new reputation for generosity, and Queen Guinevere offers him her love. Lanval follows these messengers to a magnificent pavilion, where he meets a woman who offers him her love along with an inexhaustible capacity to bestow gifts: he can enjoy both of these, she tells him, as long as he keeps their love a secret. Pensive and melancholy, Lanval rides to a nearby stream, where he catches sight of two beautiful young women, who claim to have been sent by their mistress to fetch him. The lai begins with the knight Lanval’s departure from King Arthur’s court on account of having been forgotten in a round of gift-giving. It appears in her collection after “ Bisclavret” and before “ Les Deus Amanz.” ![]() “ Lanval,” the fifth of Marie de France’s lais, is perhaps the one most directly influenced by ideas of the Celtic otherworld, and the only lai to allude to the figures of Arthurian romance. Medieval Romance: Magic and the Supernatural (YHU2309) Text (Part of The Lais of Marie de France) ![]() ![]() ![]() However, "La Nela" never dare to describe herself to Pablo, so he didn't know how Marianela looked like, but since she has a kind voice and she is always gentle with him, Pablo guessed that she must be really beautiful. Pablo, the blind boy, is really happy with the guideness of "La Nela" since she becames the "eyes" of him and the whole world takes shape in the mind of Pablo thanks to the descriptions and comments by Marianela. Marianela is very ugly and deformed, and also she isn't very skillful in any normal chore in the states so she ended as the guide of the state's owner's young son, who is a blind. Marianela lives along with the foreman's family of a rich state where the mining is the main industry there. Marianela is a tragic but lovely story about a poor orphan girl whose name was Marianela but almost all people called her "La Nela" (an usual form to call women with that particular name for short). ![]() This book was written by Benito Pérez Galdós, that he was a famous writer from Spain. ![]() I had to read this novel as part of the Spanish program when I was in high school. First, you will find the English version and after that one, you will find the Spanish version. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock. Finns popular 2018 novel of the same name and starring Amy Adams and Julianne Moore, is out on Netflix now. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one-and nothing-is what it seems. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble-and its shocking secrets are laid bare. Finn’s The Woman in the Window is a 2017 psychological mystery novel set in Harlem that tells the story of hermetic psychologist Anna Fox who struggles with the possibility that she is going insane after witnessing a murder that seems, by all other accounts, impossible. ![]() Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times. Īnna Fox lives alone-a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening. Amazing.” -Gillian Flynnįor readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from Fox: a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. #1 New York Times Bestseller – Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, and Gary Oldman – Available on Netflix on May 14, 2021 ![]() |