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Decameron by giovanni boccaccio6/29/2023 Ten tales times ten days: at the end, they will have a hundred stories. Two days must be devoted to personal obligations, and two to religious duties. In between, they will sit together and each will tell a story on a theme set for the day: generosity, magnanimity, cleverness, etc. In the morning and in the evening, they will take walks, sing songs, and eat exquisite meals, with fine wines, golden and red. Soon, they assemble three gentlemen linked to them by kinship or by affection-Filostrato, Dioneo, and Panfilo-and the ten young people decamp at dawn for the countryside. The other women say that they’d love to, but they think they should bring some men along. Let’s get out of here, Pampinea, the eldest, says. They range in age from eighteen to twenty-eight, and they are all of genteel birth. Seven young ladies, friends-Pampinea, Filomena, Neifile, Fiammetta, Elissa, Lauretta, and Emilia-meet after Mass. An estimated sixty per cent of the population of Florence and the surrounding countryside died.Īnd so begins the Decameron. Frank miller graphic novel 3006/29/2023 700 men from other cities stood beside the 300 to fight a delaying battle so the majority of the force could escape the betrayal. The Spartans only took the front line the first day, each following day that spot was taken by another group of soldiers. The Persian army was at most 200,000 men strong. Sparta HAD thrown a diplomat down a well, but it was a decade before the war. Summary of the PDF: Athens caused the war by supporting a rebellion against Persia. This page takes my advice (in advance) and lists the accuracies instead. There are important differences in Spartan motivation, the reason such a small force was sent, Persian army size, chronology (especially the well incident), and equipment.Ĭracked says the movie was saved by its inaccuracies. I've found an interesting PDF which discusses the differences (link is to actual PDF). The battle scenes are complete fabrications - the Spartans pay lip service to their proper formation, but abandon it for individual heroics at the earliest opportunity.Įssentially, it would be easier to ask what is correct about the movie than to list the differences. In the movie, many of the enemy soldiers are deliberately made to be monstrous and non-human.Īdditionally, the movie pays only lip service to the thousands of non-Spartan soldiers who fought (and died) there. The Persian army wasn't composed of monsters, to start. The tale of peter rabbit6/29/2023 Peter Rabbit was released by Columbia Pictures in the United States on February 9, 2018, in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2018, and in Australia on March 22, 2018. McGregor's great nephew arrives and discovers the trouble Peter's family can get into. The film's story focuses on Peter Rabbit as he deals with new problems when the late Mr. James Corden stars as the voice of the title character, with Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, and Sam Neill in live-action roles, as well as the voices of Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki, and Margot Robbie. It was directed by Will Gluck, who also produced the film with Zareh Nalbandian, from a screenplay and story written by Gluck and Rob Lieber. Peter Rabbit is a 2018 live-action/ 3D computer-animated comedy film based upon the character of the same name created by Beatrix Potter, co-produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Olive Bridge Entertainment, Animal Logic, 2.0 Entertainment, and Screen Australia, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. I started writing the book as soon as I got home from winning the Spectrum Art Award, it felt like a natural extension of the video and it just flowed out of me, I didn't eat, didn't sleep, just wrote and wrote until it started to resemble what it is today. How did you find the writing process for the book? If you are looking for a great, no-nonsense memoir which does not gloss over anything, this is the book for you.īefore we set off to the book launch, we sent Charlotte some questions about the book and autism. The book overall is a fantastic, sometimes harrowing read which does not talk down to you and really feels like Charlotte is there with you, telling you these things. The latter half of the book details the journey of submitting the video and then winning the prize. With this, they made a raw video about living with the condition and submitted it to the Spectrum Prize. Finally, at age 21, Charlotte was diagnosed with autism and it felt that all the pieces fit together. The book is about Charlotte’s life growing up in a village town in Suffolk, going through school life thinking there was something wrong - but with teachers, parents and even the health service not being able to pinpoint what it was. The book, which is beautifully illustrated by Clare Shepherd, was front and centre with bunches of flowers decorating it. On a sunny mid-afternoon I went along to a bohemian townhouse just next door to the British Museum to see Charlotte Amelia Poe celebrate their book launch with friends, family and colleagues. Fear and loathing graphic novel6/29/2023 Check out /r/AskLiteraryStudies if you have questions about literature and literary studies that you'd like answered by experts! All are welcome.Spoilers must be marked by an alert and obscured with Reddit editor's spoiler masking system. Please do not seek feedback or instruction on your writing.ĭo not submit videos vaguely related to literature. This includes written work, social media, medium, youtube, apps, or any other material. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating 2,860 ratings published 1971 7 editions. The Village Voice says, Cartoonist Troy Little reimagines the gonzo tour-de-force in a new graphic novel adaptation. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories. This includes posting surveys.ĭo not submit any form of advertising or self-promotion. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Content: Do not submit posts that contain questions and no other content.ĭo not request help on homework assignments (students) or curriculum content (teachers). Analysis: Submissions must include poster's own analysis in either the body or the comments of a post. Relevance: Submissions must relate to literature, literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, or literary news. We are not /r/books: please do not use this sub to seek book recommendations or homework help. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome. Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Isaac asimov prelude to foundation6/29/2023 The Emperor wants him to turn this into a practical tool to shore up his reign, and he begins a "flight", which takes him to four distinct sectors of this planetary "human beehive", directed by a journalist, Chetter Hummin, who warns that Cleon's chief of staff, Eto Demerzel, is a dangerous schemer. The Galactic Empire has been in decline for years when mathematician Hari Seldon arrives from Helicon to read a theoretical paper about "psychohistory" before the Decennial Mathematics Convention on Trantor, the galactic capital. (Galactic era), during the rocky reign of the Emperor Cleon I. Prelude to Foundation is set in the year 12,020 G.E. Prelude to Foundation tells the story of mathematician Hari Seldon, fleeing around the enclosed planet Trantor, evading the Emperor who wants to control his psychohistory, and coming to understand that his invention can indeed have a practical application in predicting the fate of mankind. I first met Shawna Lemay though her blog, although it was a different blog than the blog she has now, a blog called Calm Things. Lemay writes about “grocery store flowers,” although I prefer the convenience store variety, how the tulip becomes an iris becomes a gerbera becomes and dahlia, and so on. The meaning a bit obscure to me-but when is Woolf ever not? Thinking about the way that a flower is always different as it blooms and then decays, and then turns into a different flower altogether. The collection’s title inspired by Woolf’s own diary, a line she wrote as she was writing, The Waves: “A lamp and a flower pot in the centre. It’s not a diary exactly, but it reads like one, the essays guided by the seasons. I’ve read it twice, a little at a time, as befits a collection of brief essays. The flowers were indeed always changing, but the book was the same, this book that came into my life in April, The Flower Can Always Be Changing, by Shawna Lemay, the week before the crocuses bloomed. What is there to fear? I’ve come to understand the souls is a flower with which to bless the world.” -”All Summer Long Flowers” A time to learn to be awake to the flowers within. And all winter long the path through the garden is inward. DecemThe flower can always be changing, by Shawna Lemay Here, we offer readings of some of our favorite tales from the series, unpacking not just what moved us and scared us as children, but what continues to provoke and maybe terrify even now.Ī New Horse ( Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark): While there, we discovered our mutual admiration of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, which were foundational reading experiences for both of us, certainly influencing the writers we’d become. Together, the writer and the artist created one of the most enduring and memorable works of children’s literature published in our lifetime.Īnne Valente and I first met in the MFA program at Bowling Green State University. As skillful as Schwartz’s writing is, the books were also famous for Stephen Gammell’s haunting illustrations which accompanied each story. Skillfully adapted from folklore and urban legends, the stories are gory, disgusting, psychologically complex, and frequently violent, with just enough humor to keep you turning the pages even after you knew reading just one more meant a nightmare or sleeplessness. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.įirst published in 1981, Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and its two sequels have become a famed rite of passage for many young readers. Will have a good time as Forstchen tackles the obvious and some not-so-obvious questions the apocalypse tends to raise. While the material sometimes threatens to veer into jingoism, and heartstrings are tugged a little too vigorously, fans of such classics as Alas, Babylon Aided by local officials, Matherson begins to deal with such long-term effects of the disaster as starvation, disease and roving gangs of barbarians. History professor John Matherson, who lives with his two daughters in a small North Carolina town, soon figures out what has happened. See the complete After series book list in. He received his doctorate from Purdue University with specializations in Military History, the American Civil War and the History of. He is a Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina. Airplanes, most cars, cellphones, refrigerators-all are fried as the country plunges into literal and metaphoric darkness. Forstchen includes books One Second After, One Year After, and The Final Day. Forstchen (born 1950) is an American author who began publishing in 1983 with the novel Ice Prophet. ), a high-altitude nuclear bomb of uncertain origin explodes, unleashing a deadly electromagnetic pulse that instantly disables almost every electrical device in the U.S. Forstchen is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Second After and We Look Like Men of War, among numerous other books in diverse subjects ranging from history to science fiction. In this entertaining apocalyptic thriller from Forstchen ( We Look Like Men of War |