Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() GOOD WIVES, a sequel to LITTLE WOMEN, was. ' When published in 1868, the book was illustrated by May Alcott, Louisa's mother. 'Not a bit sensational', she wrote, 'but simple and true, for we really lived most of it. Louisa Alcott based her story on her own experience of family life. Written in six weeks, and at first thought by its editor to be 'dull', this story of an American family - four sisters and their mother living through the months while father is away in the Civil War - has a universal and enduring appeal. ![]() ![]() Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics. "Good Wives", takes up the story of "Little Women" three years on. A story, based on the author's own experience, of an American family - four sisters and their mother, living through the months while the father is away fighting in the Civil War. Description for Little Women and Good Wives Hardcover. ![]()
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Rumi by Demi6/30/2023 ![]() To honor the 800th anniversary of his birth, the United Nations declared 2007 The Year of Mawlana Jalaladdin Rumi.ĭemi’s spectacular art, inspired by the eastern culture of the thirteenth century, was painted with Turkish and Chinese inks and gold overlays. He founded the order of the whirling dervishes, who believed their spinning dances put them in touch with God and brought peace and love into the world. Book details & editions About the author Rumi 999 books14. He also wrote about the love that resides in the soul of everyone, regardless of religion or background. ![]() When his creative spirit was awakened, he recited more than 50,000 rhymed couplets. From a holy man, Shamsuddin, Rumi learned to listen for the sacred sound of God within himself. Recommended by: Barb Langridge, īorn in Afghanistan in the thirteenth century, Rumi settled in Turkey and became a great mystical poet. Keywords: biography, Asia, poet, 13th century, diversity, diverse books, 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, Turkey English translations of Rumis poetry have been quoted by Demi Moore and Donna Karan and appeared on scores of Hallmark cards. ![]() This is a great way to introduce children to the cultures of other lands. To honor the 800th anniversary of his birth, the United Nations declared 2007 The Year of Mawlana Jalaladdin Rumi. ![]() Here is the biography of Rumi, a poet who lived 800 years ago and who believed that the spirit of God lives in everyone no matter what their religious beliefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. ![]() In "On Beauty and Being Just", Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues that it is the handmaiden of privilege and that it masks political interests. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was very poorly organized without a clear mission that I could glean. There were photos of stupid spelling mistakes in newspapers (but they weren’t very good ones) and lists of differences between English English and American English, quotations from various famous people about spelling, lists of ways our modern culture has bastardized the language further with things like internet acronyms, texting language, etc. It’s a mixed bag of things cobbled together into a hodge podge of semi-related things-tests that see how well you can spell, blurbs about the evolution of the English language and how some words evolved over time, a review of some of the rules and fallacies of spelling, including the “i before e except after c” rule (which doesn’t hold much water, by the way) and various and sundry other things. ![]() ![]() I thought it was somewhat of a rant against bad spellers, but it isn’t, really. I’m not really sure what the purpose of the book is supposed to be. ![]() |