Author waiting for godot6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() This uncommon approach to writing dramatic action gives the plays a similar tonal quality: “Like Beckett, Stoppard uses the fact of enforced passivity as a trampoline for conversational bounces which are both energetic and entertaining” (Hayman 36). An essential factor in the dialogue both between Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon is that the characters are completely at the mercy of their situations. ![]() The tonal similarities between the plays are exemplified in their defining use of situation and given circumstances. Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is clearly written in conversation with Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It was as simple as that There we all were bursting a gut with great monologues and pyrotechnics, and this extraordinary genius just put this play together with enormous refinement, and them with two completely unprecedented and uncategorizable bursts of architecture in the middle–terrible metaphor–and there it was, theatre!” –Tom Stoppard ( First Interview with Tom Stoppard, 12 June 1974) ![]() ![]() It redefined the minima of theatrical validity. “At the time when Godot was first done, it liberated something for anybody writing plays. ![]()
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Emily giffin where we belong summary6/12/2023 ![]() But Joe III is a free spirit-and a little bit reckless. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. “I’m a sucker for an iconic, against-all-odds love story, and Meant to Be truly delivers.”-Tia Williams, author of Seven Days in June This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.***Ī restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins, in this “glorious, satisfying” (Adriana Trigiani) new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and The Lies That Bind. ***I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. ![]() Purchase Here Buy on Amazon US - Buy on Apple - Buy on Kobo - Buy on Google - Buy at Barnes and Noble - Buy on Audible - Buy on Amazon UK ![]() Gore vidal abraham lincoln6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee’s armies beat at the gates. ![]() During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal’s fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr 1876 Washington, D.C. ![]() Debt the first 50006/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In any real-life situation, we have propensities that drive us in several different contradictory directions simultaneously. Of course we have a propensity to calculate. If he wasn't aware of it, he could not have said what he did. It's not that he, like untold millions of similar egalitarian spirits throughout history, was unaware that humans have a propensity to calculate. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt. The refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. ![]() "And since we are human we help each other. "Up in our country we are human!" said the hunter. “Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. ![]() Banks by grantlee kieza6/11/2023 ![]() He returned with thousands of specimens of plants and animals, generating enormous interest in Europe, while the racy accounts of his amorous adventures in Tahiti made him one of the most famous and notorious men in England.Īs the longest-serving president of Britain's Royal Society, Banks was perhaps the most important man in the scientific world for more than half a century. Financing his own team of scientists and artists, Banks battled high seas, hailstorms, treacherous coral reefs and hostile locals to expand the world's knowledge of life on distant shores. In 1768, as a galivanting young playboy, he joined Captain James Cook's Endeavour expedition to the South Pacific. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge.įabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific discoveries in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic. Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. Lust, science, adventure - Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery ![]() Anos Ku Ta Manda by Yasmina Nuny6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I liked this poem, but many of the others in this book were even more powerful. ![]() This poem, titled 'Free', is from the page about her book from Verve Poetry Press (. 'Anos Ku Ta Manda' is her first published book, which is a collection of powerful and touching poems about her homeland, her passionate transatlantic love with her partner, life as a Black woman in Britain and a person of color in these difficult and challenging times. Yasmina Nuny Silva is a Guinea-Bissauan poet, spoken word artist, research consultant and magazine editor who was born in Portugal, lived in several African countries, received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Birmingham (UK), and lives, works and performs there. ![]() Black Horse River by Robin Studwick6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We then enter the Mallee and outback from the remote semi-arid landscape between Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, the Riverland, the inspiring carved golden fossilised cliffs of the Murraylands and out to the expanse of lakes Alexandrina and Albert, where it spills into the Coorong, Murray Mouth and finally the Southern Ocean. Starting up near the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales and Victoria our aerial journey takes us from Khancoban at the base of the Kosciusko National Park along the stunning Upper Murray to the rushing waters that have carved steep cliff channels and fed vast river red gum forests. As it winds through south-eastern Australia, it’s expanse of ancient and diverse landscapes showcase a layered tapestry of colours, textures and experiences. The Murray River is a spectacular and diverse landscape. Published works Murray River Bird – An Aerial Journey from Source to Sea ![]() World order henry6/11/2023 ![]()
Eloisa james born to be wilde6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() It's like being Superman, with power suits for both lives. The other day I bought a delicious pink suit to tape a television segment on romance I'll never wear that suit to teach in, nor even to give a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America conference. When I'm not writing novels, I'm a Shakespeare professor. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. ![]() A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. ![]() Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() Chain Letter by Ruby Jean Jensen6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Would they know who had broken the chain letter by who had died? Abby and Brian slowly became obsessed with finding the torn-off portion of the chain letter and learning what is supposed to happen to those who break the chain. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Over the next few weeks, Abby, Brian and their family and friend's lives came to revolve around that letter. Buy Chain Letter by Ruby Jean Jensen () by (ISBN: ) from Amazons Book Store. The letter plainly stated: Whosoever possesseth this letter and dares to break this chain shall suffer disaster and death. ![]() This was unlike any chain letter they had ever seen. ![]() What they did find was a torn portion of a spooky chain letter-with spidery words elegantly penned on yellowed paper edged in black. They searched high and low but could not find Babs. Then, under the fence and into a huge, abandoned old nursing home. ![]() Up a big hill to a tall chain-link fence. Along the way, Babs got loose and led them on a merry chase. Shelly agreed, but suggested that they take the short-cut through the woods. Abby then wanted to stop and ask Shelly to join them. Without asking permission, Brian put his best leash on Babs and off they went. First, Abby talked Brian into taking along Babs, his six-month-old golden retriever. Youngsters Abby and Brian decided to spend the afternoon riding their bikes to the Speedee-Mart and buying a few treats. ![]() |