![]() ![]() ![]() As he convincingly demonstrates, while we may hold other European cultures in higher esteem, it was German thinking-from Bach to Nietzsche to Freud-that actually shaped modern America and Britain in ways that resonate today. ![]() Yet how did the Germans achieve their pre-eminence beginning in the mid-18th century? In this fascinating cultural history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, how it flourished and shaped our lives and, most importantly, to reveal how it continues to shape our world. But this genius was cut down in its prime with the rise and subsequent fall of Adolf Hitler and his fascist Third Reich-a legacy of evil that has overshadowed the nation's contributions ever since. Peter Watson was educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome, and was awarded scholarships in Italy and the United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists and engineers were leading their freshly unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. The German Genius: Europes Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century - Kindle edition by Watson, Peter. From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland and the United States. ![]()
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![]() Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Īlcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ![]() Louisa May Alcott ( / ˈ ɔː l k ə t, - k ɒ t/ November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). ![]() ![]() Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts ![]() ![]() ![]() This is something Levy explores thoroughly in the book, as she questions whether we bring on tragedies and losses when we are “too fervent, too forceful, too much”. Isn’t that kind of control something we all crave, though? To be in charge of our own lives, our path, where we’re heading and to a certain extent, what we feel we deserve? But being free to choose what we want can leave us feeling unnecessary guilt when things go awry. It delves into some of the big and small decisions that Levy made throughout her life, on her journey to become the kind of woman “who is free to do whatever she chooses”, that she feels have subsequently impacted negatively on her existence. This book is an examination of human desire and great loss. But, the life she had garnered, through her tenacity, her desire and her belief that the rules truly don’t apply, came crashing down around her, with the harsh reality that “the future I thought I was meticulously crafting for years has disappeared”. It’s by Ariel Levy, a staff writer for the prestigious New Yorker, who had cultivated an enviable life: her career was successful and creative (the dream), she travelled the world and got paid to do it, she owned her own home and she was happily married. I mentioned this memoir briefly in my previous post, but had to do a full review because it’s a magically beautiful book that every girl should read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ricki’s Review: When I was asked to review this book, I jumped at the opportunity. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child’s perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America’s greatest writers. Now available for the first time in forty years, this new edition of Little Man, Little Man-which retains the charming original illustrations by French artist Yoran Cazac-includes a foreword by Baldwin’s nephew Tejan “TJ” Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. Baldwin’s only children’s book, Little Man, Little Man celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. As he comes of age as a “Little Man” with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. ![]() Summary: Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Natalia struggles with tragic events from her past that are explained in several interspersed flashbacks. In an escalating accumulation of bad luck that strains credulity, the group members in turn experience extraordinary injuries, health problems, and psychological challenges during the ill-fated journey. These include a family-Ryan, Lisa, and their toddler, Trask a man called Darryl and his grandson, Zion Beatriz and Marco, a young couple an older woman named Susan and two men, AJ and Jason. Wyatt’s wilderness experience and Natalia’s aspirations to become a doctor prove to be boons for the people they encounter and join forces with as they are trying to escape. Natalia and Wyatt, two teens from Portland, Oregon, venture on a short hike which goes awry when a fire breaks out, blocking the trail. A group of strangers searches for a path to safety as a forest fire encroaches on them in this adventure thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Secondly, the dramatist has brought about his Theory of Life-force through Eliza and Higgins, which criticizes their attitude towards marriage. You have had a thousand times as much out of me as I have out of you. When the experiment is over she is of no value to him. He uses her as a tool to carry out his experiment on phonetics. Though Higgins undertakes Eliza to raise her to the position of a duchess by teaching her fashionable English, he cannot raise her status. Let us illustrate these through the analysis of the theme and his major characters as below:įirst, the dramatist Shaw criticized the age-long reserved outlook of men towards women through the depiction of relationships through Higgins the professor of phonetics and Eliza Doolittle the flower girl. His play entitled ‘Pygmalion’ is such a problem play where he has made a thorough critical assessment of the man-woman relationship, their attitude towards the opposite sex and class struggle between the middle class and lower middle class concerning their economic and social status. ![]() ![]() In this genre of drama, he has made a critical assessment of some existing social problems or problem-faced social ideas, conventions, customs or social follies and vices to make his readers aware of these problems and to think of solutions to these problems. George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950) is the originator of a new genre of drama termed the ‘Drama of Problem’ or ‘Drama of Ideas’. Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion As A Social Critique Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion As A Social Critique ![]() ![]() ![]() This massive hardcover tome, over 1000 pages, collects the final 38 issues of Neil Gaiman's groundbreaking series.Ĭollects THE SANDMAN #38-75 plus stories from VERTIGO JAM #1 and VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE #3. And when a young woman's baby is stolen, she turns to The Kindly Ones for vengeance - only to set off a series of events that will lead the Sandman to his ultimate fate, and the baby to find a destiny no one could have foretold. Then, the Sandman and others are trapped in a mysterious inn while a tempest rages - and all they can do to while away the time is tell the stories of their lives. But their quest will lead to a painful reunion between Morpheus and his son, Orpheus. ![]() In this epic tale, Delirium, youngest of the Endless, prevails upon the Sandman to help her find their errant brother, Destruction. Regardless of cultures or historical eras, all dreamers visit Morpheus' realm-be they gods, demons, muses, mythical creatures, or simply humans who teach Morpheus some surprising lessons. The Sandman is the universally lauded masterwork following Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming-a vast hallucinatory landscape housing all the dreams of any and everyone who's ever existed. ![]() ![]() While a teenager in school, you fall in love with a gorgeous young girl –hereafter known to you as “the pretty girl." You do this despite the narrator’s insistence that falling in love will distract you from your life goal of getting rich. There, you are given an education which helps form a solid foundation from which you will one day become rich. Your family is impoverished, but your father finally makes enough to move you, your mother, and your siblings to the city. The never-named self-help guru explains that to become filthy rich in rising Asia, you must move to the city because your hometown has no hope for the future. Each chapter provides certain teachings about life and how your own life plays out against those instructions. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a novel by Mohsin Hamid which resembles a self-help book featuring the reader (you) as the main character and recipient of its advice. ![]() ![]() ![]() NOTE: This guide refers to How to Get Filthy Rich in Asia - First Riverhead Trade Paperback Edition, March 2014 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s base and ugly, full of selfish people who only care for themselves!”Įmily’s Wuthering Heights was published in December 1847, originally under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Charlotte insists that there is a secret source of inspiration Emily is keeping from her, “something” that must be revealed. “I took my pen and put it to paper,” Emily responds. ![]() “How did you write it? How did you write Wuthering Heights?” Charlotte demands. As Emily regains consciousness and tries to calm her ragged breathing, her sister Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) fixes her with a withering glare. Her sisters rush to lay her weakened body on the sofa as the doctor is called for. In the opening scene of Emily, we witness the protagonist-famed author Emily Brontë ( Emma Mackey)-lose the color from her face and faint. ![]() ![]() * Junior Library Guild selection BOOKSHOP | INDIEBOUND | AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | BOOKS-A-MILLION * Featured on over a dozen Best of 2018 lists by outlets such as NBC News, the New York Public Library, Booklist, Bustle, Entertainment Weekly, Paste, Buzzfeed, and more * Nominated for Book of the Month Club’s Book of the Year * Among the Wall Street Journal’s top 12 picks of the season * Listed on Buzzfeed’s 30 Best YA Books of the Decade * Finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award * Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best YA Fiction * Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Debut Author * Winner of the ‘Mental Health Matters’ Book Shimmy Award * One of Reader’s Digest’s 50 Best Books for Teens of All Time * One of Cosmopolitan’s 125 Best YA Novels of All Time * One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time ![]() |