![]() ![]() Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language.Ĭompiled and published following the death of Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante loved from the age of nine when he saw her on the streets of Florence, The New Life translates his personal grief into a moving and universally recognizable work on the nature of love. Made up of alternating commentaries, sonnets, and canzoni, the work is an essential expression of Dante’s poetic gift, and a foundational work for the dolce stil novo literary movement to which Dante was a central figure. Composed in the prosimetrum style, The New Life explores the popular medieval theme of courtly love. The New Life (1294) is a work of verse and prose by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She strives to create beauty and harmony in her home, in her friendships, and in her family. ![]() Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children, defined by her devotion to her husband, a philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. “A magnificent storytelling feat” ( The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” ( The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century.Ĭelebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy-to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. ![]() ![]() His novel A King of Infinite Space (2009), was optioned for a feature film adaptation by TMG productions in 2010 and the poems “Hygiene” and “The Riddle of Steel” were nominated for The Pushcart Prize in 2011. He teaches in Long Beach, California, where he lives with his wife. His new novel, A Cold and Broken Hallelujah, will be published by Thomas & Mercer in the summer of 2014. ![]() His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Best American Mystery Stories, and he is the author of A King of Infinite Space and The Pain Scale, the first two novels in the Long Beach Homicide series featuring Detective Danny Beckett. He returned to CSULB for an MA in English Literature and an MFA in Fiction Writing. Tyler Dilts received his BA in Theatre from California State University, Long Beach and performed in more than fifty stage productions before turning his focus to writing. John Cabot University is proud to welcome author Tyler Dilts as this year’s Writer in Residence at the 5th Annual Summer Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation, to be held from May 19th to June 20th. ![]() ![]() ![]() The audio includes Graham's most enduring lessons like the investor vs. As far as I know this is the best audio version of Graham's work. ![]() ![]() Despite the drawbacks I would recommend this audiobook. This edition does not have any commentary and only has the most basic of Graham's lessons. Plus, in my text edition every chapter has an additional commentary from Jason Zweig (a Graham disciple and author of "The Intelligent Investor" column in the Wall Street Journal). Comparing the full text with this audiobook, there is no doubt the abridgment takes away a lot of the flavor and substance. How can a very fat book then lose so much weight in the audio version and remain healthy? I personally own and have read from cover to cover the full book. The original text edition is hundreds of pages long. Warren Buffett - one of the world's richest men and an acolyte of Graham - is said to have read this book dozens of times until he could recite much of the book. The Intelligent Investor is a mainstay of the finance literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet she was also a fascist, jailed for the dangerousness of her beliefs during the second world war. Indeed, reading some of her letters-the six sisters wrote to each other frequently, sometimes daily, across several decades-shows a woman who is loyal to her family, bewildered by the spiky jibes of her oldest sister Nancy (the novelist, the one you’d most like to go for a Whisky Sour with), adoring of her husband and children. ![]() Diana Mitford herself would churn out an autobiography called”A Life Of Contrasts”, in 1970.Īs points out, she was not a dangerous woman in the more straightforwardly criminal sense. ![]() Her childhood and that of her siblings are quite well documented, thanks in large part to sister Jessica’s (“Decca’s”) autobiographical “ Hons and Rebels“. ![]() Diana, or “Honks”, as was her moniker, was born June 10th, 1910 in Westminster, London. Her close friend, James Lees-Milne, wrote of her that “She was the nearest thing to Botticelli’s Venus that I have ever seen”.Īll the Mitford sisters had nicknames and seemed to adopt something like a linguistic microclimate in conversation. One of, and arguably the most well-known, of the Mitford Sisters, Diana was also regarded as the most beautiful of her siblings. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() If I look back, I originally read this during a highly transitional time in my life. Where I’m going with this, I suppose, is… perhaps there’s a part of me (us?) that engages in something not entirely unlike transference (but certainly not exactly), with certain comics. Just like any other hobby, I suppose… though, with the periodical nature of comics, I feel like we’ve got more to tie specific times in our lives to certain eras/runs… we can point to a well-remembered/well-loved run in a book, and kinda point to where we were in our own lives, running alongside it. ![]() I’ve said time and again that, to me… comics history is more than just “comics history”… in a way, it’s also our history. Just know, my feelings will be irreparably hurt. Hey, at least by now you’ve already read the synopsis and looked at all the panels… so, if you wanna click off now, you won’t be missing much. ![]() I mentioned during the preamble that I wasn’t going to bore you with any theories as to why certain runs we love become difficult to revisit in later years… and, well… I guess I kinda lied, because I’m about to. ![]() ![]() I’m sure I appreciated it more as a teen-ager myself, but I can’t say that I didn’t enjoy this a great deal. ![]() ![]() ![]() They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world.”-Bruce Allen, Christian Science Monitor contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out of Africa (1937). made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() ![]() “Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night’s wandering, he learns love’s true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. In Isak Dinesen’s universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land the European friends who visit her and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself. Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans. ![]() ![]() Forester veröffentlichte Dahl seine erste Geschichte in der Saturday Evening Post für ein Honorar von 1000 Dollar. ![]() Künstlerisches Schaffen: Angeregt von einem Treffen mit C. Bekannt ist er sowohl für seine Kinderbücher als auch für seine Werke, die eher dem Genre schwarzer/makabrer Humor zuzuordnen sind. Er verfasste Romane und Kurzgeschichten, die von einem feinen schwarzen Humor geprägt sind und oft überraschend enden. November 1990 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire) war ein norwegisch-walisischer Schriftsteller. September 1916 in Llandaff bei Cardiff, Wales 23. Hier ist das Gruseln zu lernen, von einem Meister des makabren angelsächsischen Humors, der mit Bosheit amüsiert und noch aus der Heimtücke Moral filtert. Eine herrliche Geschichten-Sammlung! Spannend und aufregend - Dahl übertrifft sich selbst. ![]() ![]() In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. ![]() At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?īorn out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Awardįrom the beloved New York Times best-selling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland.Ĭyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 ![]() ![]() Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 ![]() |