epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Matthew Dennison

• 9 • ‘I hardly feel I tread the earth I only know that thou art mine’ APPROPRIATELY, IT WAS a courtship of words. By letter Elspeth requested that Kenneth ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-05 | Author:Philip Nel

NO NEED FOR TRICKS: WE CANNOT INCREASE UNDERSTANDING BY DENYING DIFFERENCE Surprisingly, some have alleged that a kind of literary whitewashing might actually increase understanding between people of different races. ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor

Differences In the books, Hagrid is said to be twice as tall as a regular human being, making him around 11 to 12 feet high - however, in the films ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-11-27 | Author:Clémentine Beauvais [Beauvais, Clémentine]

This is what good action books do: make you feel the ‘bite of incense on the breeze’ as a reminder both of where you are and of the sting of ...

epub |eng | 2017-02-24 | Author:Erika Haber

5 OZ BECOMES MAGIC LAND To make sense of the remarkable story of why Volkov came to adapt Baum’s American fairy tale and to understand the significance of how he ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

The power and uncertainty of these [vampire] stories—no one knew exactly what Europeans did with African blood, but people were convinced that they took it—makes them an especially rich historical ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jens Andersen & Caroline Waight [Andersen, Jens & Waight, Caroline]

The Danish Connection The first five years of Astrid Lindgren’s career as an author were an explosion of artistic and commercial success. Three trilogies were launched: Pippi Longstocking, The Children ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Jenny Woolf [Woolf, Jenny]

… I suppose you don’t remember when Mr. Dodgson ceased coming to the Deanery? How old you were? I said his manner became too affectionate to you as you grew ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Chapter Five THE FIRST MAKINGS OF ART THE FIRST IMAGES WERE RATHER POOR, TO THE SURPRISE OF neither man. Southey was the more experienced of the pair—he had been taking ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Garrett, Greg [Garrett, Greg]

“I thought the dementors guard the prisoners at Azkaban,” [the Prime Minister] said cautiously. “They did,” said Fudge wearily. “But not anymore. They’ve deserted the prison and joined He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. I ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Helen McClelland [McClelland, Helen]

[In the salon] was the inevitable sofa with its little table before it [and] in an alcove . . . stood a beautifully carved Brautkasten, or bridal-chest . . . ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-30 | Author:John Granger

12 DANGEROUS BOOKS AND EDIFYING BOOKS Spiritual keys to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Rowling remarked at the release of Goblet of Fire that it and Chamber of ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Robert Frost

10 Did ever you feel so? I hope you never. It’s got so I don’t even know for sure Whether I am glad, sorry, or anything. There’s nothing but a ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Christine Woodside [Woodside, Christine]

8 LIBERTARIANS IN CONNECTICUT “I owe Rose, for helping me, at first, in selling my books and for the publicity she gave them.” —Laura, in a letter to literary agent ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Jim Trelease [Trelease, Jim]

In case you weren’t keeping score, that’s an eighty-word sentence, normally not a thirteen-year-old’s reading fare. But I was willing to wade through it to get the scoop on this ...