I like bugs by margaret wise brown7/7/2023 She may also have been a little distracted by her own turbulent love life.īrown, who never married although was briefly engaged, had a long-term affair with married man William Gaston, a summer romance with fellow author Preston Schoyer and in 1940, began a long-term relationship with Blanche Oelrichs - a feminist poet playwright, actress, and the former wife of John Barrymore. I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he's little.' The writer never had children herself, and once told a Life reporter in 1946, 'I don't especially like children. She also harbored a deep dislike of children, her main target audience. Her most famous work, Goodnight Moon (pictured) sold more than 14 million copies, making her one of the best selling American children's authors ever Millions of parents have relied on Margaret Wise Brown classic books for a bedtime story for their little ones.
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The experience of fleeing Vienna was a strong thread throughout Ibbotson's life and work.Įva Wiesner attended Dartington Hall School, which she later fictionalised as Delderton Hall in her novel The Dragonfly Pool (2008). Other family members also escaped from Vienna and joined Anna and Eva in London, avoiding the worst of the Nazi regime, which had already affected the family. In 1934 she settled in Belsize Park in North London, and sent for her daughter. In 1933 her mother left Berlin for Paris in 1933, after her work was banned by Hitler, putting a sudden end to her successful writing career. What followed for Eva was a " very cosmopolitan, sophisticated and quite interesting, but also very unhappy childhood, always on some train and wishing to have a home," as she later recalled. Her father took up a university lectureship in Edinburgh. She had worked with Bertolt Brecht and written film scripts for G. Her mother, Anna Gmeyner, was a successful novelist and playwright. Eva Ibbotson was born Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner in Vienna, Austria in 1925 to non-practising Jewish parents. Her father, Berthold Wiesner, was a physician who pioneered human infertility treatment. Fierce attachments book review7/6/2023 Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. Gornick’s groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O’Brien has called “the principal crux of female despair”: the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.īorn and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of “urban peasants,” Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother’s romantic depression over the early death of her husband. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments-hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages-has been selected by the publication’s book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. Alan b krueger rockonomics7/6/2023 Whatever the case, I devoured the 300-page book by Krueger - former chief economist of the US Treasury from 2009 to 2010 who, I discovered, sadly took his life in 2019 - in just two evening sittings. It might be because I recently launched a media company, speaking volumes about the notion that you’ve got to discover books at the right time to truly absorb them, or that when a student is ready a teacher appears. However, with the COVID-19 enforced shutdown of bookstores in my home city of Melbourne, I went rummaging through said bookcase to find such books that I might have a newfound interest in reading.Īnd this time, the cover, Rockonomics: What the Music Industry Can Teach Us ABout Economics, absolutely spoke to me. However, a pitfall of being sent many books is analysis paralysis, and at the time I must have had other learning priorities because Rockonomics found a home on my bookcase without a single page being read. His publisher had sent it my way - one of the many perks of hosting a modestly successful podcast. About a year ago, I received a copy of Alan Krueger’s book, Rockonomics, in the mail. Many believed the letters were real, only the names changed. It was so close to reality and so well written that it was a scandal. It is like a collection of letters and was presented as “fictitious letters collected and published by a fictional author”. What is exceptional about the book is the storytelling, completely original. The book’s plot is relatively simple: a couple of ex-lovers make an amoral gamble to corrupt good people, but in fact, there is a personal vendetta leading to the tragedy. With precision and boldness, the book spoke of romances, betrayals, and scandals in the French court, the symbol of decadence and opulence that would come to an end violently only seven years later. Although it is a work of fiction, it could be what is now called historical fiction. Les Liaisons dangereuses, Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, was first published 240 years ago, in four volumes, in March 1782. Some 7 years before the French Revolution, a publication caused a sensation in France. Hearts in atlantis book7/5/2023 But while King’s novels have long featured Baby Boomers and commentary on that generation (especially in It and Thinner), King had never directly tackled the deeper themes of what it meant to grow up in the 1960s, and how it continued to affect those who had. Certainly they felt the aftereffects, in the real world as in King’s writing: the paranoia of government, for example, that propels books like The Stand, Firestarter, and The Running Man might not have been possible without King’s political consciousness in the 60s. Stephen King’s third-generation readers, maybe even second - those who came into King after he had become a worldwide phenomenon - arrived too late to be directly affected by the 1960s. 500 numbered and signed by King, not put up for sale.24 proof copies, unsigned but featuring a. King's Silver Anniversary in book publishing "The New Lieutenant's Rap," published asĪ "chapbook" given away at a party celebrating. Catching the wind neal gabler7/5/2023 Though he is often portrayed as a reckless hedonist who rode his father’s fortune and his brothers’ coattails to a Senate seat at the age of thirty, the Ted Kennedy in Catching the Wind is one the public seldom saw-a man both racked by and driven by insecurity, a man so doubtful of himself that he sinned in order to be redeemed. It is at once a human drama, a history of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a study of political morality and the role it played in the tortuous course of liberalism. The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy-an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality.Ĭatching the Wind is the first volume of Neal Gabler’s magisterial two-volume biography of Edward Kennedy. “A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition.”-Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of American Moonshot “One of the truly great biographies of our time.”-Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy. Lucretius book 37/5/2023 This book unpacks the implications of this unique kinetic philosophy of history. Instead of thinking of history in terms of time, he thought of it in terms of motion. Puts Lucretius in conversation with contemporary physics and new materialismįor Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think.Can be read separately or along with Lucretius I and Lucretius II.Offers a unique theory of evolutionary materialism.Presents a new theory of history based on movement, as opposed to time. A guidebook to living in a world that’s destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura OL17703539W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.22 Pages 378 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0679504664 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:43:28.473606 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1148411 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition New ed. The action in both novels occurs through the experiences of the same characters used by Michael Shaara in 'The Killer Angels.' Though a novel, this book is a favorite among Civil War readers, on a level with the best non-fictional works. The Warden by Anthony Trollope7/5/2023 The Reverend Francis North had been appointed as Master of the Hospital of St Cross in Winchester, and some serious discrepancies had emerged between the vast revenues of the hospital and the rather less great work of the Master. Harding becoming the centre of a whipped up storm in the national newspaper The Jupiter.Īt the time when Trollope was writing The Warden, several financial scandals had rocked the Church of England, and he drew on one in particular for the background to his story. The discrepancy between the living of the clerics and the living of the bedesmen in the almshouses becomes a cause célébre, with Barchester and, in particular, Mr. Septimus Harding, Warden of Hiram's Hospital almshouses and Precentor of Barchester Cathedral. Anthony Trollope’s The Warden was the first of Trollope’s hugely successful Barchester Chronicles, appearing in 1855 and reversing the rather unfortunate sales of his previous three novels. |