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![]() He wrote full-scale, intuitive rather than objective, biographies of the French statesman Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935), and others. He achieved popularity with Sternstunden der Menschheit (1928 The Tide of Fortune), five historical portraits in miniature. ![]() Zweig's essays include studies of Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Drei Meister, 1920 Three Masters) and of Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche ( Der Kampf mit dem Dämon, 1925 Master Builders). Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freud led to his most characteristic work, the subtle portrayal of character. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942. ![]() Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. ![]() He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. ![]() ![]() Ben is a scientist working on a secret project, and as he and Tom fall in love, the project goes wrong, sending both men to wander throughout time, trying to find one another through messages left in books. ![]() Set during the Second World War, it follows two men, Tom and Ben. ![]() McDonald's latest, Time Was, is a change from that model, but it's no less a gripping read. Ian McDonald has become one of my favorite science fiction authors in recent years: his novel Luna: New Moon kicked off a fantastic trilogy (the third installment has sadly been delayed until next year), while River of Gods and The Dervish House used the intersection between cheap technology, poverty, and politics to present a really intriguing set of futures for Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its huge reserves of gold to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy.įor Forrester, the decision to accept this mission is even more difficult, as he is only recently married to Sophie, the wife he had perhaps never expected to find. Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret.Ĭolonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes - I know he followed up his biggest hit with Around the World with Auntie Mame, and has written 16 novels - my pronouncement stands. Dennis is known primarily for his splendid book, Auntie Mame, I consider Genius to be his most gifted work. ![]() His books, like old friends that you occasionally see but don't entirely forget, never truly go out of fashion.Īnd while Mr. Although he passed over almost four decades ago, I'm still enjoying his unique brand of skeptical whimsy and delightfully quirky characters that was his particular gift to share. I count myself as one of those Dennis enthusiasts, whose best-known literary works are nestled in my modestly ample home library.Īuthor of such delights as Auntie Mame, Genius, The Joyous Season, and Little Me, Patrick Dennis helped me learn the basics of dialogue and description. ![]() Patrick Dennis's May 18 birthday has come and gone, quietly celebrated by an unknown number of Baby Boomer fans. ![]() ![]() Now, for the very first time, they will get their chance to see the real thing." Some people want to check we still have the eggs, others want us to admit we have lost them. That interest is due to the fame they acquired through The Worst Journey in the World. "However, of all the 300,000 clutches of eggs we have here, the ones that generate the most inquiries from the public – by a long way – are the three emperor penguin eggs brought back from Scott's expedition. "Ours is the world's biggest collections of eggs, with 1.5 million specimens – and many of these were brought back by individuals who went through extraordinary hardship to retrieve them," said Douglas Russell, curator of the museum's egg collection. They remain some of the most precious ornithological specimens on the planet and, for the first time, one will be put on public display when it will form the cornerstone of a special 100th anniversary exhibition, Scott's Last Expedition, which opens at the Natural History Museum, London. The eggs were supposed to reveal the evolutionary links between reptiles and birds but their collection nearly killed the journey's participants. ![]() ![]() No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys. Each book includes a biography of the author, a short essay about the images and artifacts from the Library used to illustrate the text, and suggestions for further reading. O Pioneers (1913) was Willa Cathers first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. The New York Public Library Collector's Editionsįavorite masterpieces of world literature illustrated by rare and beautiful materials from the Library's collections and featuring an elegant, distinctive design, with foil-trimmed covers with matching endpapers compact, easy-to-hold size and modern, readable type. O Pioneers opens on a blustery winter day, in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, sometime between 18. Gathered together in this unique collection are the novel O Pioneers!-Cather's famous elegy to the land and to the pioneer spirit-and two of her greatest shorter works, A Lost Lady and "The Bohemian Girl." An evocative celebration of Cather's life and work, this special Collector's Edition is illustrated with portraits of Cather and a selection of photographs and drawings that capture the grandeur of the Western frontier. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Willa Cather lived most of her adult life in New York City, she never forgot or stopped loving the "sea of grass"-the open, untamed country of her youth. ![]() ![]() And I love that we are finally seeing a blind person who is not a saint, a victim or a superhero. I love the neurotic mom, whose entire identity is wrapped up in being the mother of a disabled child, because even though the non-disabled world may not realize it, that's a thing. Kudos to Hollywood for finally accepting what the rest of us have known all along. Murphy's roommate (Brooke Markham) proves that a woman doesn't have to be tall and skinny to be beautiful. ![]() Not laugh-out-loud funny - because we all know it's rude to laugh at the blind, right? - but quietly funny. Let's start with the things this show does well - it's funny. So I was very surprised to find I didn't hate it - not even a little. I fought all my life to be treated as an equal, and then some idiot decides to portray a blind woman as a drunken, self-pitying mess who sleeps with married strangers and exploits her disability to cut the line at the drug store? Gee, thanks. I was expecting to hate this show - I wanted to hate it. ![]() ![]() ![]() The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate-a life and a role that she has never challenged… until now. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Narrator: First person, alternating between Anna, Jesse, Kate, Brian, and Sara Fitzgerald, Campbell Alexander, and Julia Romano.īook Summary: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi PicoultĪnna is not sick, but she might as well be. Theme: The Ambiguous Line Between Right and Wrong, The Bonds of Sisterhood, The Contrast Between Appearance and Reality ![]() Major Characters: Anna Fitzgerald, Sara Fitzgerald, Kate Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Jesse Fitzgerald, Campbell Alexander, Julia Romana ![]() ![]() It has influenced every comic strip from Peanutsto Pearls Before Swine.īut heterosexuals try desperately to avoid admitting that Krazy Kat is gay. Literary figures as diverse as Jack Kerouac and Umberto Eco have praised it. Gilbert Seldes’ The Seven Lively Arts (1924) devoted a chapter to the strip, and today most histories of the comic strip include warmly appreciative paragraphs. The general public wasn't impressed, but the elites loved it, exuding comparisons to Charlie Chaplin and German expressionism. Meanwhile Officer Pup hangs around to throw Ignatz in jail or pontificate on the evil of brick-throwing. And, in fact, Ignatz often gives in and grudgingly accepts Krazy's affection. ![]() But the cat is not dissuaded, accepting even violence as a signifier of desire. From 1913 to 1944, newspaper readers could read a sparely drawn comic strip, an anomaly in the era of lush art deco masterpieces like Little Nemo, in which a small, squiggly cat named Krazy professes undying romantic love for the mouse Ignatz, who responds by lobbing a brick at Krazy's head. ![]() |