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![]() ![]() ![]() Appreciate essential workers and what people in our everyday lives provide: "Like the gardener thankful for every green sprout, and the fireman, for putting the fire out.Focus on the blessings that we tend to take for granted. ![]() Thankful is a heartwarming board book that teaches children ages 0-4 to: From the local reporter to the doctor and pastor, children will delight as they explore the people of their town and what they are thankful for. Little ones will snuggle up close as they enjoy this charming, cozy book about being thankful. Eileen Spinelli, bestselling and award-winning children's author, charms with rhymes and whimsy in Thankful, perfect for any young reader and their family. Celebrate everyday blessings, practice thankfulness, and observe the wonderful acts of service that keep us going each and every day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spanning the void, and that great gray blind lake ![]() Blood welled upĪmong the roots, on its way to the world of men,Īnd in the dark it looked as hard as stone.Īnd forests made of mist. Mitchell has brought off with seeming effortlessness. Few translators of any poet have arrived at the delicate balance of fidelity and originality that Mr. ![]() Mitchell is impeccable in his adherence to Rilke’s text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought at the same time, his work has authority and power as poetry in its own right. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions, many readers feel that they have discovered an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of Rilke’s poetry more accurately and convincingly than has ever been done before. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert a seemingly endless fascination for contemporary readers. Rilke is unquestionably the most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation, of spiritual quest, that the twentieth century has known. The influence and popularity of Rilke’s poetry in America have never been greater than they are today, more than fifty years after his death. Winner of the 1984 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets ![]() ![]() ![]() Alongside these he worked on plays and serialised 'adventure' or 'gothic' stories such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo self-exiled himself from the new republic of France, not because of his politics, but because he valued free thought and was deeply mistrustful of groupthink inspired by Napoleon's reign.ĭuring his lifetime, Hugo's works were many - he was a 'jobbing writer' who produced essays and autobiographies on all of the great figures of recent history - from the Kings of France to Cromwell, Napoleon, even Torquemada. Hugo was born to a France that was just about to experience the 1848 Uprising and Revolution, after which time 'the Tyrant' (Napoleon) would come to power for a short period. ![]() He was also very wary of the 'Great Men' of his time, such figures as Cromwell, or Napoleon Bonaparte. His thinking was liberal and anti-authoritarian, supporting universal suffrage and the abolition of slavery. ![]() He had the fortune - or perhaps the misfortune, we should remember - to be a man born to turbulent times, and was in thought, slightly ahead of them. Victor Hugo was a French Writer whose fame, although not inconsiderable during his life, was fully realized many years after his death. ![]() ![]() History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. 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But when he witnesses a murder that he's unable to stop or comprehend, Gabe finds himself drawn into an investigation with disastrous consequences. Content to earn his living well away from civilization, he works as an astronomer at an observatory in the earth's driest desert, where no rain has fallen in 400 years. Gabe Traylin is face-blind, unable to tell one person from the next. A man with a neurological disorder that prevents him from recognizing human faces confronts an enigmatic killer in Chile's Atacama desert - the most lifeless place on earth ![]() ![]() ![]() We recommend that you check with your local customs officials or post office for more information regarding importation taxes/duties that may be applicable to your online order as this changes country to country. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. 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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The correctness of the position of the Communists of Greece was confirmed by recent events. And whatever little part of these loans which will still reach Greece, and for which Greek workers must agree on reducing wages, a sharp increase in the retirement age, denial of the state support of the poor, will be used not for people but for the salvation of big capital in Greece – a class which has brought this country by its domestic and foreign policy to such a state. ![]() – for the sake of providing new so-called loans that will actually go to pay off old debt, i.e., Greece will not free itself, but will only further increase the debt and the amount of interest payable. Now the imperialists of the EU (primarily France and Germany) imposed on the Greek people new predatory terms and conditions: abolition of all remaining social gains of the workers, the sale of state property, including lands and islands, for the benefit of creditors, etc. Bourgeois and social-democratic governments of Greece, as instructed by the financial oligarchy of the EU, drove this nation into debt and destroyed its economy. In 2015 in the spotlight of the European public’s attention was the internal political struggle in Greece. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2014. In January 2014, it was reported Keegan Allen, Tim Blake Nelson, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Loretta DeVine, and Janet Gretzky had joined the cast of the film. Even as late as the film's screening at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival some playbills still made this claim, and the posters had to be reprinted before opening. Hamm's schedule was too tight and the role ultimately went to Tim Blake Nelson, but in spite of this the story that Hamm was in the movie persisted. ![]() In an early interview with Franco in 2013, the director suggested he wanted Jon Hamm in the role of Mr. Seth Rogen as Telegraph operator (cameo).The film focuses on the Compson family, and their struggles to adjust to the changing society of the 20th century Deep South, told from four different perspectives: the mentally disabled Benjy Compson, the fragile intellectual Quentin, the vile Jason and his family's old black servant, Dilsey. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on October 23, 2015, by New Films International. It is the second film version of the 1929 novel of the same name by William Faulkner (the previous adaptation, directed by Martin Ritt, was released in 1959). The Sound and the Fury is an American drama film directed by James Franco. ![]() ![]() ![]() Really, we're asking, who is fantasy "escapist" for? Can we ever just have a nice non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic (etc.) systems in our fantasy stories?įollow us down this weird, wonderful rabbit hole of magical women, alternative histories, utopic possibilities, and more! It was incredible to walk through the trope-breaking elements of his novel, particularly of the sci-fi favourite of clones (why are they always "evil"?), how to write authentic diverse characters without having lived their experience and how diversity in fantasy focuses too heavily on discrimination and oppression. Ja-Mel is the author of DREAMER, a fantasy novel with sci-fi elements about the descendent of Joan of Arc who must combat demonic forces. ![]() Hey nerds! Today we have our final author interview for a while, and are ending with a bang with fantasy author Ja-Mel Vinson. ![]() |