His surviving writings include nearly 40 plays and over 150 sonnets, and his body of work is widely performed, analyzed, studied, and reinterpreted to this day. Shakespeare died in 1616 of a rumored “fever” just a month after creating a will in which he declared himself to be in good health. In 1609, he published a book of sonnets, and released other long poems in the mid-1590s when London’s theaters were closed due to the plague. His theatrical career likely began in the mid-1580s, and between then and 1613, he composed such works as Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, The Henriad, Julius Caesar, Othello, and many more. There is a gap in the historical record between the birth of Shakespeare’s twins and his first recorded appearance on the London theater scene in 1592. She later bore two more children-one of whom, Hamnet, died at the age of 11. At 18, Shakespeare wed a woman eight years his senior, Anne Hathaway just six months after their marriage, Hathaway gave birth to a daughter. His father was a glove-maker and assemblyman in Stratford-upon-Avon, and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do landowner.
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The story's emotional impact-and environmental message-are movingly reinforced by Himler's delicate paintings, which deftly portray the robust oak's pathetic deterioration into a rickety skeleton of a tree. Finally, when its branches are bare, Alice plants acorns she had once gathered from the then-healthy tree, telling her dog that if even one of them grows, another tree will sprout up ``someday.'' While filling her cogent tale with poignant details (neighbors bring food and get-well cards one knits a scarf to tie around the trunk of the ailing oak), Bunting ( The Valentine Bears ) never allows it to become sentimental or didactic. It can be used for whole group, small group, and independent instruction which makes these resources a smart choice for literacy centers or Reader’s Workshop. Alice and her parents, as well as their neighbors, try desperately but vainly to save the poisoned tree. This set of lesson plans, resources, and activities is for use with How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting. When the grass around the tree begins to turn yellow, and the branches begin to drop leaves in springtime, a tree doctor surmises that someone has dumped chemicals by its roots. Her mother reminisces about the first picnic she and Alice's father shared underneath it, and about Alice's christening on the very same spot. A sprawling oak tree grows in the field next to Alice's house, and it holds many memories for her family. Nostalgia and timeliness merge seamlessly in this uncommonly evocative picture book. Once Henry Mackenzie had published his famous review in The Lounger, ‘Burns’ became virtually synonymous with ‘ploughman’, while his literary brilliance was attributed, ironically enough, not to his own careful labour but to Heaven. As Donald Low, whose own name may have sensitised him to this recurrent feature of the early critical reception, observed, ‘the subject most often under discussion was not a body of poetry but a socio-literary phenomenon’. The brief notice in the New Annual Register struck the keynote when it observed that Burns’s Poems were ‘the productions of a man in a low station of life’, for the Monthly Review ran a piece that dwelt on Burns’s situation, ‘born in a low station, and following laborious employment’, while the Critical Review began with general recollections of ‘poetical productions written by persons in the lower ranks of life’. It is not surprising, then, that the early responses to Burns’s work were conditioned by thoughts of agricultural labour and cultural limitation. The Challenge of Regional Language and the Legacy of Robert Burnsīurns’s preface to the Kilmarnock edition emphasised that his Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect had been composed ‘amid the toils and fatigues of a laborious life’ and begged readers, accordingly, to ‘make every allowance’ for his humble ‘Education and Circumstances of Life’. Prices have stayed well-above the Fed's 2% inflation target over the past year, clocking in at 5% in March. When Powell said it was transitory, that was a lie," the personal finance guru said in an interview with CNBC on Saturday, referring to Fed Chair Powell's previous stance that rising prices were merely transitory, before reneging on that comment later in 2022. My biggest concern is that inflation is now systemic. Inflation has become a systemic problem, and investors need to start hedging against it by looking at specific real assets, according to "Rich Dad Poor Dad" author Robert Kiyosaki. Kiyosaki has been a frequent doomsayer and predicted the " biggest crash in world history" in 2021. The personal finance guru touted his top inflation hedges as prices remain elevated. Inflation has become a systemic issue, according to "Rich Dad Poor Dad" author Robert Kiyosaki. The 5th Wave follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that have already devastated the Earth's population and knocked humankind back to the Stone Age. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. He and his wife, Mary, endured a bitter, mutually spiteful marriage for 40 years, throughout which he battled a chronic alcoholism that almost killed him and tried desperately to suppress a bisexuality that all but overwhelmed him. Not unusual for a writer, Cheever lived a life that was mostly free of great drama, yet one that remained fixed in a perpetual state of crisis. This biography confirms his earlier judgment. As John Updike wrote upon slogging through his colleague's published journals, "Rarely has a gifted and creative life seemed sadder." Updike was Cheever's only serious rival as pre-eminent chronicler of the midcentury suburban experiment, and he was also an astute critic. Like Yates, Cheever's work is overdue a reappraisal, but the artist's life makes for a disturbing read. These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. This book cancels out all others." -Bob Dylanįrom the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated.Ī New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Ralph J. Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. “It has been said that growing up in the South and becoming a writer is like spending your life riding in a wagon, seated in a chair that is always facing backwards,” Miss Burns said. To create the novel, Miss Burns played journalist, interviewing her parents, aunts and cousins. The town of “Cold Sassy” was modeled on the actual small town of Commerce where her father had grown up. Miss Burns modeled the grandfather character and his May-December romance in her novel on her great-grandfather, who had married a young storekeeper three weeks after his first wife’s death. If you can’t vacuum and you can’t go anywhere, you have more time than you ever knew existed.” Then, when I was on chemotherapy, the hematologist told me I couldn’t go anywhere. “I had a head start on giving up things the doctor I went to about arthritis said I shouldn’t vacuum anymore. “You must decide what you will give up in order to have the time and energy to do it,” she said. Many would-be authors never complete books, she observed, because they never make the time to write. Miss Burns had written nonfiction articles for several years, first for Atlanta Weekly, a former Sunday magazine of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and later as a free-lance writer and advice columnist for the Atlanta Constitution. Macomber returns to Seattle's fictional Blossom Street of A Good Yarn (and others) for a hopeful tale of four widows who meet at 38-year-old Anne Marie Roche's bookstore. It’s a relationship that becomes far more involving-and far more important-than Anne Marie had ever imagined.Īs Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list, they both learn that wishes can come true…but not necessarily in the way you expect! When she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. Some of the items on Anne Marie’s list: learning to knit, falling in love again, doing good for someone else. They each begin a list of twenty wishes-including things they’d always wanted to do but never did. On Valentine’s Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate…a sense of hope. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle’s Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there’s a feeling of emptiness. At thirty-eight, she’s childless, a recent widow. What do you want most in the world? What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. Come back to Blossom Street! Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber for this hopeful story of enduring friendship and starting over. |