![]() In 1849, Dostoevsky and his co-conspirators were interrogated by General Nabokov, the great-great-uncle of the novelist Rowan Williams’s scholarly Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction concentrated instead on the novelist’s tormented Christian messianism. Joseph Frank’s celebrated five-volume biography, published between 19, devoted more than 2,500 pages to the life of a man who was dead at the age of 59 from untreated epilepsy and a gambling addiction (also untreated). With his appetite for affliction and self-torturing asceticism, he was a casebook of neuroses. He is a difficult quarry for biographers, though. ![]() His Slavophile bias and Orthodox-heavy chauvinism endeared him to Stalin’s propagandists, who tailored his image to fit Soviet ideology. (“Dostoevsky is a third-rate writer and his fame is incomprehensible,” he judged.) For all that, Dostoevsky remains a quasi-divine figure in Russia. Its murderous antihero, Raskolnikov (from the Russian raskolnik, “dissenter”), embodies a violent ideology of redemption through suffering that Vladimir Nabokov, for one, found distasteful. Crime and Punishment, his best-known novel, radiates a dark chaos and apocalyptic sensibility. His work teems with holy fools, holy prostitutes, nihilists and revolutionaries. ![]() F or many in the west, Fyodor Dostoevsky is the most “Russian” of Russian authors. ![]()
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![]() When she was just a graduate student, historian Martha Hanna published an influential essay looking at why the extreme-right group Action française venerated St. Second, during World War I, there was a strong appetite in France and among its allies for a figure symbolizing an unlikely commander of a beaten-down army who won the fact that Joan was a woman showed that strength and power didn’t belong only to men. So how did the late-medieval heretic turn into two very different symbols in modern times? Scholars suggest that to answer that question, you need to understand first how proto-fascist elements tried to undermine the democratic government and promote a “true” France-one without Jews, immigrants, or academics. The fact that Joan was a woman showed that strength and power didn’t belong only to men. ![]() ![]() The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II-an experience Eva remembers well-and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. She freezes it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years-a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “epic and heart-wrenching World War II tale” (Alyson Noel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Winemaker’s Wife.Įva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. ![]() ![]() In the end the peddler must get clever to trick the monkeys into giving him his caps back. What happens next is an hilarious back and forth between the monkey’s and the peddler that will have children giggling and repeating the words and sounds read in the story. The cap peddler soon discovers that monkeys had stolen his hats and have them on their own heads up in a tree. All the colored caps are gone except his own checked cap. When the peddler wakes up after his nap, he finds that all of the caps he was carrying on his head are gone. The peddler has no money so he decides to walk out of the town and take a nap. After not having much success the peddler begins to feel hungry. The peddler’s caps are brown, blue and red and tower into the sky. ![]() He has an interesting way of carrying the caps he sells by keeping them stacked on his head. The cap peddler is out for the day to sell his wares. ![]() As the secondary title tells us, Caps for Sale is a tale of peddler, some monkeys and their monkey business. Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina is a classic children’s book that draws readers in with its silly story and repetitive monkey and sounds and cap peddlers dialogue. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was painted a few years later in 1788 by Mather Brown. In the negotiations to end the Revolution, John Adams insisted that the Ohio territory must belong to the new nation. ![]() Thomas Jefferson echoed their sentiments, calling the Ohio “the most beautiful river on earth” in his book, Notes on the State of Virginia, even though he had never seen it. When French explorer La Salle first saw the Ohio in 1669, he described it as La Belle Rivière, " the Beautiful River. The Seneca Indians called it the Ohi:yo’ (pronounced oh-hee-yoh), literally the “Good River.” ![]() There was still not a single legal permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory when the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Michaela DePrince is the embodiment of what it means to fight for your dream." - Today "Michaela DePrince is a role model for girls on and off stage." - NYLON In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet's most exciting rising stars. ![]() She has appeared in the ballet documentary First Position, as well as on Dancing with the Stars, Good Morning America, and Nightline. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. For every young brown, yellow, and purple dancer, she is an inspiration!" -Misty Copeland, world-renowned ballet dancer Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. "Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. ![]() SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! The extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonce's Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance company. ![]() ![]() ![]() Originality - The sheer ingenuity of the story to the appropriateness of the punishments makes this one of the most original storylines on the market. ![]() Warning- may be disturbing to sensitive readers. ![]() Offering up heart-pumping tales of revenge, suspense and horror in all its guises, this book is filled with dark humor, political incorrectness, gruesome and sadistic acts from beginning to end. The streets are no longer a safe haven for the wicked with Seth lurking in the shadows of the dark, waiting to bestow the most sadistic and over-the-top inhumane acts of vengeance that will stagger the mind. Seth takes the man on a journey into his twisted world of vengeance filled with the most unimaginable and barbaric things that could only be found in the deepest and darkest parts of hell. The main character, Seth Coker, has invited a reporter, Wyatt Carter, to go on a road trip across America. Summary: This is book Two in the A Glimpse into Hell series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fifty-year-old Adam has been a guardian and protector for lost and vulnerable souls most of his life, but a secret he has run from for more than three decades has kept him emotionally unable to admit he can love anyone. But their age difference is only part of the problem. Karla isn't a little girl anymore - something his body reminds him of every chance it gets. But Karla's knack for turning up in his bed at inopportune times is killing his resolve to do the right thing. With a twenty-five-year age difference, he feels he should be her guardian and protector, not her lover. Retired Marine Master Sergeant Adam Montague has battled through four combat zones, but now finds himself running from Karla Paxton, who has declared war on his heart. The continuing romantic journey of Adam and Karla, which began in MASTERS AT ARMS and continued in NOBODY'S ANGEL, and ended in a dramatic cliffhanger that sets up the opening scene of NOBODY'S HERO. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anaya's use of Spanish, mystical depiction of the New Mexican landscape, use of cultural motifs such as La Llorona, and recounting of curandera folkways such as the gathering of medicinal herbs, gives readers a sense of the influence of indigenous cultural ways that are both authentic and distinct from the mainstream. The novel reflects Hispano culture of the 1940s in rural New Mexico. ![]() Teachers across disciplines in middle schools, high schools and universities have adopted it as a way to implement multicultural literature in their classes. It has become the most widely read and critically acclaimed novel in the New Mexican literature canon since its first publication in 1972. Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya centering on Antonio Márez y Luna and his mentorship under his curandera and protector, Ultima. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her new novel, The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was published in Apri Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. ![]() Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine, and she recently completed a term as President of PEN America. ![]() Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. ![]() |