![]() ![]() As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears at or near the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. Spain at the time was caught in the tumult of a new age, and Cervantes tried to create in Don Quixote a place to discuss human identity, morality, and art. ![]() In addition, she never actually appears in the novel). His “lady” is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl by the illusion-struck “knight” (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo’s bedraggled old Jewish quarter. ![]() John Ormsby).ĭon Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Librivox recording of Don Quixote Volume 1, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So it is with Duma Key (609 pages, Scribner, $28), King's latest novel. Stories such as The Stand, The Shining, The Green Mile, and Different Seasons are profoundly moving not because they scare a gasp out of you (and they do), but because they so convincingly create people out of ink and paper who continue to live with you long after the book closes, years later coming up in soft-focus memory like friends you've lost touch with but vividly remember. Like all great horror writers, King is at his best when the speculative takes a backseat to character. ![]() Wait half an hour and another one will come grumbling along with the same sort of passengers having the same sort of conversations. As brilliant as they may be, I feel about them as I do a bus. Can I say the same about the equally prodigious John Updike or Joyce Carol Oates? I'm afraid I can't. And despite all the years I've spent in his skull, privy to his nightmares, King somehow remains compulsively readable. After gobbling up his more than forty novels and two hundred short stories, you'd think the world might have had its fill of Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the shadow of social media and Black Lives Matter, this generation’s struggle to shake off the yoke of white supremacy has become the dominating narrative. ![]() Related: 7 Books About Race to Explain the Current Unrest Not only to ensure our survival, but because those who came before us fought and died for our right to do so. We have a social responsibility to assert our role in this grand scheme. In the here and now of Summer 2020, withdrawal from the American narrative is simply a luxury young people of color cannot afford. As he entreats the reader to understand his rationale, it becomes more and more clear how toxic even the most limited exposure to the status quo of white supremacy is to people of color-in spite of everything, one cannot blame him for wanting to leave. Ellison presents the hero of this story as one who has endured the injustices one expects from mid-20th century America, and came to a point in his life where he decided the only way to beat the game was to not play at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trinidadian Spanish (castellano trinitense or castellano trinitario) refers to the Spanish natively spoken by Cocoa Panyols in Trinidad and Tobago which is very close to extinction.
![]() A lesson Hannah’s about to learn the hard way. But when your secret is this big…your burden this heavy…fate doesn’t hand over control so easily. When she becomes Elijah’s houseguest and obvious object of his desire, she’s determined to not let a childhood nightmare be the narrative of at least one relationship in her life. On the inside, he’s bitter and hurt and has sworn to never be the victim of a lying, cheating, using woman again. ![]() On the outside, he was cut from the perfect mold-stunning good looks, beachside mansion, secretive job, sexual notoriety. On the outside, he was cut from the perfect moldstunning good looks, beachside mansion, secretive job, sexual notoriety. I swore no one would ever have that kind of power over me again…Įlijah Banks is a textbook playboy. Elijah’s Whim Victoria Blue Elijah’s Whim I swore no one would ever have that kind of power over me again. Elijah’s Whim Victoria Blue Elijah’s Whim I swore no one would ever have that kind of power over me again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This edition introduced readers to a new term "non-European art." It also moved away from Gardner's interest in drawing comparisons between art from different parts of the world. Crosby by the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. In 1959, the fourth edition was published under the editorship of Sumner McK. The second edition was published in 1936 and the 3rd came out in 1948, a year after Gardner died. This approach was maintained for the first three editions that were all edited by Helen Gardner. Gardner's initial edition was ahead of its time in that along with the Western canon of European art, it examined the art of India, Aboriginal America, China, and Japan. ![]() It, like all following editions, was organized chronologically beginning with "The Birth of Art" in the Upper Paleolithic and progressing in a mainly chronological sequence to the contemporary period. The first edition published in 1926 was written by Helen Gardner. No other book has received both awards in the same year. The 2001 edition was awarded both a McGuffey award for longevity and the "Texty" Award for current editions by the Text and Academic Authors Association. Gardner's Art Through the Ages is an American textbook on the history of art, with the 2004 edition by Fred S. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are also narrative that calls for careful reading historical accuracy is sometimes sacrificed to the demands of compelling characterization and dramatic tension. They contain history and are an important source of information about the Israelite kingdoms. The Books of Kings can be approached in several ways. The Deuteronomistic History along with the Pentateuch forms a single historical narrative stretching from creation to exile. The latter tells the story of Israel from its settlement in the land (Joshua and Judges) through the transition from judgeship to monarchy under Samuel, Saul, and David (1 and 2 Samuel) to the reign of Solomon, the disintegration of the united kingdom into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the eventual downfall of both kingdoms (1 and 2 Kings). The two Books of Kings are regarded by many as the last part of a work commonly known as the Deuteronomistic History. ![]() ![]() “I can’t wait to get inside, you’re tight as fuck so it might hurt the first time. ![]() My body stiffened and I grunted, toes curling. This was better than my special pink vibrator, the one with two heads and the wiggly thing. ![]() This excerpt is on the explicit side.more so than other excerpts I’ve posted. She is a pretty tough cookie and hates to be called “Sweet Butt” She is 50% completely turned on by him and 50% horrified he wants her to be his possession (maybe 60/40 *wink*). Her brother got involved with the Reapers, which is how she meets Horse. ![]() Loves to call Marie “Sweet Butt.” He is possessive and kind of an asshole. The hero: Horse (yes, really named Horse for how he is hung) belongs to an old-school motorcycle club called The Reapers. If I had to pick, Tack still wins as a sexier hero, but I very much enjoyed Horse. I really like that we get the background on its culture and the unapologetic way the members live in their own world within this club and don’t follow society norm. Has a Motorcycle Man feel…but the motorcycle club in this one is described very well. Well, I’m only at the 50% mark but I can tell you right now it’s a book I would recommend as well. Many have recommended this book to me and I finally sat down and read it last night. ![]() ![]() ![]() But prostitution wasn't her goal, any more than domestic work or trudging off to the factory day after day. ![]() She'd sold herself for the first time at fifteen and had pocketed knowledge along with the coin. But more than books and music, she'd learned the arts of flirtation. And she'd profited by them, polished them with the grace and charm she'd learned by watching and emulating the fine ladies who'd visited the grand house on the river where her mother had worked. She'd done so, for nearly a decade, with steely mind and heart. Youth and beauty were products that could be marketed. She was still young, and she was beautiful. Oh, she knew he kept others - including his wife - but they didn't concern her. He'd kept her for nearly two years now, and kept her well. The mistress of a man like Reginald Harper couldn't afford pregnancy. But she was afraid of them, nearly as afraid of the abortionists as she was of what was growing, unwanted, inside her. A woman in her position had contacts, had avenues. There were ways of dealing with it, of course. When she'd learned she was carrying her lover's child, the shock and panic turned quickly to anger. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I just thought, this is incredible diversity. There are so many things in the mind that we never imagined. “I was just so overwhelmed with all these senses that people had that we didn't even know about – people who couldn’t recognise faces, people with extraordinary synaesthesia. “It was a time of incredible sharing and exploration,” she says. ![]() ![]() As Singer explains to me, her original aim was to draw attention to a wide variety of conditions. Shortly afterwards, it was picked up by a US journalist writing in a 1998 edition of The Atlantic, and the term began to evolve from there. The word neurodiverse was first coined in 1998 by an Australian sociologist, Judy Singer, who used it in her honours thesis. But these terms have a long history and their meaning is constantly evolving. People involved in the diagnosis and discussion of these conditions often use the term “neurodiverse” to describe the differences, and “neurotypical” to describe everyone else. That’s not to mention many other conditions – such as dyslexia, Tourette’s and Williams Syndrome (which involves a hypersocial personality) – that are also be due to differences in the brain’s anatomy. ![]() According to one survey from 2016, around 62 million people across the globe were thought to have an autism spectrum disorder (including Asperger's syndrome), and 63 million had ADHD (though there can be crossover as some with autism can have ADHD and vice versa). ![]() |