![]() ![]() This new critical edition, ideal for classroom use, includes the full text of Douglass’s fictional recounting of the most successful slave revolt in American history, as well as an interpretive introduction excerpts from Douglass’s correspondence, speeches, and editorials short selections by other writers on the Creole rebellion and recent criticism on the novella. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washington, who, along with eighteen others, took control of the slave ship Creole in November 1841 and sailed it to Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas, where they could live free. Washington rallied 18 of the 135 slaves aboard a ship bound for New Orleans, the countrys primary. ![]() ![]() Frederick Douglass’s only work of fiction-an imaginative retelling of the most successful slave revolt in American history-accompanied by an interpretive introduction, notes, and a selection of related writings by Douglass and others First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. In The Heroic Slave, Douglass makes clear that Madison Washington, the man who chooses to lead a violent slave rebellion, is black to the eye. The Heroic Slave was inspired by a courageous uprising led by Madison Washington in 1841. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tripods, giant three-legged metal things, control the humans with Caps, given to them at a coming-of-age ceremony. Rating: 3/5 The White Mountains describes a world where, after an alien (machine?) invasion, society has reverted back to medieval times and are now under the dominion of the Tripods. For Will, his time of freedom is about to end–unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists. But for a brief time in each person’s life–in childhood–he is not a slave. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods’ power. Long ago, the Tripods–huge, three-legged machines–descended upon Earth and took control. The White Mountains, by John Christopher, was published in 1967 by Simon & Schuster. ![]() ![]() She becomes hungry for knowledge and it is through this hunger that she learns about commerce and brings what she has learned to her Pa and the villagers. ![]() I could go on and on about several different kinds of relationships Miri develops throughout the story but I’ll just say that each friendship is well done-honest in the failings we have with our friends and inspiring in the goodness we find in developing old and new friendships.Įducation and books play a large role in the story as the mountain girls all learn to read at the academy and Miri develops a love for books and all the wondrous knowledge they hold. It reinforces the idea that you never really know the content of someone’s character by the exterior. I love that the friendship is built through learning to understand each other and being willing to step out and be open with another person. They become good friends while at the academy and Miri even invites Britta to spend time with her own family since her relatives don’t seem to like her much. When they are at the academy together, Miri learns that Britta is not the horrible lowlander like Miri assumed and instead is kind and very lonely for a friend. ![]() For example, another young girl named Britta, a lowlander who lost her family and had to move in with distant relatives on the mountain, has not made any friends and at first Miri thinks it’s because she is haughty. ![]() I really enjoyed all of Miri’s relationships in this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sean It must be so hard to be Alexander Thorne, the number one prime-time news anchor in the country, with millions of dollars and a car that costs more than my house. Now, not only do I have a bodyguard, I also have a fake boyfriend. I only wanted the name of a bodyguard I didn't expect for Sean to volunteer for the job. He also happens to be the best they have, which is why I find myself on his doorstep the night my life is threatened by an anonymous stalker. ![]() The older brother of my life-long best friend, Sean is a detective for the Chicago PD, and is also known as Detective "Dick" for being.well, a surly, temperamental pain in everyone's ass. Never in that equation would I ever include the word boyfriend-and not just because he's straight. Xander If I had to describe Sean Bailey, it would be: a surly, temperamental pain in my ass. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After this brief period of schooling he moved to Chicago in 1900, departing from Clyde for good although he later returned to visit. ![]() After his return from Cuba he was in Clyde again briefly before leaving for Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio for what would be his last year of formal education. After his mother’s death, Anderson spent two years working in a Chicago warehouse before returning to Clyde to join his Ohio National Guard unit for service in the Spanish-American War, where he saw no action and was posted to the American south and later Cuba. The setting of Winesburg, a fictional town in northwestern Ohio, is based closely on Clyde, Ohio, the town to which Anderson’s family moved when he was seven years old and where he lived until his mother died in 1895. Photo from Walter Rideout’s “Sherwood Anderson: A Writer In America, Volume 1.” Sherwood Anderson as an Ohio National Guardsman during the Spanish-American War. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one. ![]() Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers – Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love of honour, loyalty and betrayal.įrom the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, and screenplay writer of Brokeback Mountain, this is the third novel in the McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, following on from Comanche Moon and prequels Streets of Laredo. More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dove is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America. Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Mans Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtrys Lonesome Dove quartet. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived. It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. From Texas to Montana, it follows cowboys on a grueling cattle drive through the wilderness. Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a question of whether the play was the first to stage certain dramatic elements. Arthur Freeman points out the particular importance of The Spanish Tragedy's date in the study of Elizabethan drama. Estimates generally oscillate within the ten-year frame of 1582-1592. The exact date of the play's composition is uncertain. Despite the lack of conclusive evidence, very few-if any-scholars have seriously doubted Kyd's authorship of The Spanish Tragedy. Scholars generally agree, however, on the intimate relationship between The Spanish Tragedy and Kyd's Cornelia, which strongly suggests a common author. No other external evidence has been able to corroborate this link. Only in 1773 did the theatrical historian Thomas Hawkins discover, in Thomas Heywood's Apology for Actors (1612), the play's assignment to Thomas Kyd. In its day, The Spanish Tragedy was anonymous. The title page of the 1615 edition of Kyd's celebrated play reads: ![]() ![]() ![]() Consecutive releases will focus on improving the usability of the R scripts, adding a documentation but also on expanding the default analytics provided. It also allows for creating TIC networks using generic bigram and trigram phrase matching, which will work on any text that can be found on Project Gutenberg (not just the two examples). The system, which is using the Transcendental Information Cascades (TIC) approach to generate a temporal network representation of a text or text corpus, is prepared to track co-occurrence of characters in Dickens' "Great Expectations" as well as "David Copperfield". ![]() This is the minimum viable product release of the software for distant reading of texts found on Project Gutenberg. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But you can’t fake chemistry, not onstage and certainly not off it, and Viper and Halo? They have it in spades.Īs both men try to resist the fire blazing between them, and the band is forced to reinvent themselves, it’ll be a complicated rise back to the top. Too bad Viper’s body isn’t listening to his head-at least not the one on his shoulders. ![]() Viper has already broken rule #1-big mistake? ![]() Interpersonal relationships in the band are discouraged?Ģ. But there are several reasons this is a bad idea:ġ. With a voice to match his stunning good looks, it isn’t long before Viper’s taking notice. Halo is everything they’ve been looking for. Time’s running out and the pressure’s on to find a new singer, but it isn’t until an angel walks through the door that the band’s prayers are answered.Ĭharismatic. Fame chasers.Īfter months of lackluster auditions, Viper, the lead guitarist and resident bad boy of the group, is ready to find solace in the bottom of a bottle. But it all comes to a screeching halt when the lead singer walks out of the studio one day and never comes back.Įar-blistering vocals. Groupies galore.Įvery day is a party for Viper and the guys of TBD, the biggest rock band in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The strength and the fellowship of the Clan will always be with you, even when you hunt alone." Becoming "Firepaw," a warrior-cat-in-training, the once pampered pet adapts quickly to the tribal rules, bonds with his fellow apprentices and with the old she-cat Yellowfang, who is on the run from ShadowClan. When Rusty tries to snare a mouse in what proves to be ThunderClan territory, he meets Bluestar, the leader of the Clan, who invites him to learn "what it is to be a real cat. ![]() Rusty, a young tomcat, forsakes the soft world of the "Twolegs" for the riskier life of the wildcat clans that rule in the woods, beyond the Twolegplace. ![]() In the first exciting installment of the Warriors fantasy series, debut novelist Hunter creates a cat world shared by four tribal clans, drawing on the habits of feral animals and also inserting valuable themes regarding family, friendship and responsibility. ![]() |