Grant's memoirs first edition6/7/2023 He immediately offered to more than double it if Grant signed with his publishing house instead. Twain read over the contract and was appalled by the proposed ten percent royalty. Grant’s longtime friend Mark Twain caught wind of the pending deal and paid Grant a visit on the day he was officially to commit to the Century Company. Bankrupt with months left to live, he was approached by the Century Company’s senior editor with an offer to publish his memoirs. That same spring Grant was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Unbeknownst to the financially naive Grants, Ward turned the firm into an elaborate Ponzi-style scheme by the spring of 1884 the business had collapsed, leaving Grant publicly humiliated and in serious debt. Upon his return to New York he started the brokerage firm Grant and Ward with his son Buck and business associate Ferdinand Ward. Grant embarked on a savings-draining two-and-a-half-year tour around the world with his family. The events leading up to and surrounding its publication were equally dramatic, forming a worthy tale in its own right.Īfter two terms as president a restless Ulysses S. Grant, a narrative that summarizes Grant’s life as a series of extreme swings in fortune from failed farmer to Commanding General of the Union Army. Special Collections owns two first edition copies of the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.
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Queen Of Blood by Charles Nuetzel6/7/2023 The story’s a little complicated - in the 70s and early 80s, a lot of the major anime creators were leftists who had been involved in events like the Anpo Protests, but anime of the time isn’t as overtly radical as, say, the films of someone like Nagisa Ōshima in the ‘Japanese New Wave’. The explicit leftist intent of Brecht’s plays is something you don’t really see a lot in anime. Brecht himself called these Lehrstücke (‘learning plays’) “anti-metaphysical, materialistic, non-Aristotelian drama.” Published in the early 30s, it’s just too young to get caught in the public domain, but you can of course get translations of Brecht’s plays on libgen. It had a didactic intent, it’s supposed to also sharpen your attitude towards the class struggle this didacticism is something that’s often mentioned in reviews of the play as a flaw. Please accept a serious answer to your joke post <3īertolt Brecht’s The Mother is a musical play about a mother’s political awakening during the Russian Revolution, based on a novel by Maxim Gorky. I have been thinking about this ever since I saw this post. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson6/7/2023 Glory, the youngest Boughton daughter and the presiding perspective in Home, as well as Teddy, one of Glory and Jack’s three brothers, hover on the periphery. The Reverends Robert Boughton and John Ames, boyhood best friends who grew up in Gilead in the early 20th century and became preachers together, are now old men near death the father and godfather, respectively, of Jack, they await his return home before it’s too late. Jack, the fourth and newest novel in the series, invokes characters who will be familiar to readers of Gilead (2004), Home (2008), and Lila (2014). Glory, enraged at Jack’s power to end games simply by disappearing, and mystified that he does so, storms up to him when he returns and shouts: “What right do you have to be so strange!” It’s a scalding exchange, not just because Glory is furious but because she has spoken aloud the question common to everyone in their hometown of Gilead, Iowa. But they would look for him, as if the game now were to find him at mischief. Then someone would say his name, the first to notice his absence, and the game would dissolve. When they were children he would slip away, leave the game of tag, leave the house, and not be missed because he was so quiet. Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon6/6/2023 Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. When ex–NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, two semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart - half tavern, half temple - stands Brokeland. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Five days in london may 19406/6/2023 Lukacs also investigates the mood of the British people, drawing on newspaper and Mass-Observation reports that show how the citizenry, though only partly informed about the dangers that faced them, nevertheless began to support Churchill's determination to stand fast. Lukas gives quotes from those during the time such as Churchill, Halifax, and Hitler to get his point across while using examples from the present to relate. We see how the military disasters taking place on the Continent-particularly the plight of the nearly 400,000 British soldiers bottled up in Dunkirk-affected Churchill's fragile political situation, for he had been prime minister only a fortnight and was regarded as impetuous and hotheaded even by many of his own party. John Lukas’s Five Days in London May 1940 gives us an insight on how the five days from May 24 to played out inside and out of the British war cabinet. Perutz, New York Review of Books The days from May 24 to altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to. but he has transformed it into a memorable drama.'-M.F. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities. Washington Post Book World Bestseller 'Customers are raving about Five Days in London.' 'Gripping. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial new book. The days from May 24 to altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. Crossing statovci6/6/2023 It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. 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All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.īook Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Time Traveler’s Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare’s marriage and their passionate love for each other as the story unfolds from both points of view.Ĭlare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals–steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. Theme: Love, Time, Fate Vs Free Will, Family, Memory and the Past, Versions of Realityīook Summary: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerĪudrey Niffenegger’s innovative debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Anne rice book about castrati6/5/2023 This is a really normal fairytale princess age so that's fair enough I guess, but it really stuck with me that this is really not just rape but child rape. One last beef, the author specifically points out that Beauty is 15. (Nope, all pretty one dimensional and no real growth happens to anyone.) Overall it was bad at nearly everything I was hoping for, but if you like spankings have I got the book for you. I'm all for a good rape fantasy but honestly I was surprised that the word rape was used at all in the book since nearly all sexual encounters are not consentual.) I was hoping for some interesting characters. (They're only meh, they're short, and they're few and far between. There is no real consent given and the after care, when it is given, is left to other servants.) I was excited for some hot sex scenes. They are all spanked constantly, but not pierced, burnt, or "harmed" and the spanking is not to the point of drawing blood, I know this because the author seems to think that's really important everyone be reminded of that several times. None of the slaves are there by their own choosing. (I don't think it even really counts as BDSM. (It's not, it's literally mentioned 3 times and not for any real reason.) I was excited for power play and interesting BDSM dynamics. I was intrigued by it being a retake of Sleeping Beauty. Forever After All by Catharina Maura6/5/2023 I think we all know how this is gonna play out. The underhanded H intercepts her and offers her a marriage of convenience, instead, that will satisfy his own motives. Sweet, selfless gal down on her luck and desperate for money to pay for her mother's medical bills, tries to sell herself at a “gentleman’s club”. No, I am not bitter, I am just flabbergasted □ I skimmed through the last part of the book and the epilogue, and it's everything I need to know about the book.įfs, I saw this book now on tiktok and here goes booktokers hyping the below mediocre romance book. She bites her lips, he gets hard and they're on roll (rawr). Not to say, everything is just repetitive and predictable. I was supposed to read an adult romance but the way the characters were written made me believe that this is some high school romance (no, cuz I even read better coming-of-age book). because who speaks like they are in the opera. The dialogues are very unrealistic and contrived. Forever After All had the most mundane plot with terrible writing that takes your reading enjoyment as a whole. The plot is promising to be something great, only to be way off the mark. This is not an attempt to be Regina George but life's too great to continue a book that bored you to hell. 5 by Hiromu Arakawa from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect. Meanwhile, Colonel Mustang learns the military's corruption goes all the way to the top, and the truth of what really happened in the Ishbalan War is revealed.īuy Fullmetal Alchemist (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. When they finally escape, they find themselves face-to-face with the "father" of the homunculi, who offers Lin immortality as the new Greed. Hiromu Arakawa (author: ) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Fullmetal Alchemist ( Hagane no renkinjutsushi). In the midst of heated battle, Ed, Envy and Prince Lin of Xing are swallowed whole by the homunculus Gluttony. of Country: United States Published: 7 June 2011 Pages: 576 ISBN: 9781421540184. Equipped with mechanical ""auto-mail"" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother's bodies.the legendary Philosopher's Stone. In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. 5 by Hiromu Arakawa Bargain omnibus editions of one of the best-selling manga series of all time! Description - Fullmetal Alchemist (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. |