![]() ![]() ![]() Want a different shipping option? Just ask! I ship Free to the USA using USPS Media Mail. I will package and ship your new book so that it arrives in your home in the same condition it left mine. The spine is tight, and the pages are clean and tear or fold free. The paperback cover shows little wear, and only a mild crease on the back cover with some small brown age marks. ![]() This soft cover book is in vintage very good condition. His writing is most enjoyable even today. Quite an adventure! MacDonald was well ahead of his time in the fantasy realm. Their efforts to terrorize her are frustrated when the princess, with the help of a fearless and resourceful young miner lad named Curdie, outwit these little mischievous little people and learn along the way some valuable lessons about bravery and loyalty. A princess with a magic ring gets into trouble with a group of devilish goblins who live in the ore-rich subterranean caverns of a nearby mountain. Another unabridged telling of the 1872 tale. George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish poet and novelist, delighted his eleven children by writing this fairy tale, or current day fantasy. ![]()
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Faith also finds escape in her own inner life, which Johnson represents as a series of dreams with a warrior named Mathilda, with whom Faith visits a king and prepares to build a castle. ![]() Her teammates are other misfits who are more preoccupied with personal struggles than with soccer, and Faith gradually wins over many of them as friends. ![]() Tricked into joining the soccer team on her first day in middle school, Faith, a loner who is looking for somewhere to fit in, stumbles through practice and lands on the C team. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, across the aisle, unless something dramatic occurs, the Democrats’ nominee will be its incumbent, Biden, whose poll numbers remain low and whose age (80) is a major concern among voters and his own party leaders.Ī lot could change between now and Election Day in 2024, but as of this moment, it’s shaping up as a rematch of the 2020 election. Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, after losing his reelection bid to President Joe Biden, is also a lingering stain his party has wrestled with. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then later defaming her in repeated public attacks. ![]() The candidate leading polls for the Republican Party is former President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday was found liable by a jury for sexually abusing the writer E. But elections when both parties put up unpopular and flawed candidates to run against each other have been more rare. There have been plenty of presidential elections throughout history where one of the two major party candidates was deeply flawed or flat-out unpopular. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart depicts Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of European colonialism during the late 19th century. 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Achebe’s opus, and the subject of this review, Things Fall Apart is the most widely translated, studied, and read African novel its impact transcends continental boundaries and is often cited as one of the most influential novels ever written.īorn in British Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and Professor of African Studies. ![]() “Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.”Ĭhinua Achebe is regarded by many as “the father of African literature”, although Achebe himself vehemently rejected this title of approbation, his status as one of the most seminal figures in modern African literature is well-earned and incontrovertible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ambushed and beaten, Jack disappears into the darkness of night without a trace. 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(Jackson in Kosenko 1985: 27)Īlthough the author succeeded in startling the readers, the motives for portraying the American society in such a way were still unclear. ![]() I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives. In 1948 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle Jackson accounted for her reasons behind writing the story:Įxplaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. Those who read Jackson’s story were totally confused and unable to understand the author’s intentions. Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” was first published in the New Yorker, in 1948 and it aroused a lot of controversy among the newspaper’s readers. ![]() The Picture of Society in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson ![]() |