![]() Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5,166 words (19 minutes) with a reading ease of 82. Browning suffered from numerous illnesses throughout her life, eventually succumbing in Florence at the age of 55. Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. She is most famous for her Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love poems published in 1850, and Aurora Leigh, an 1856 epic poem described by leading Victorian critic John Ruskin as the greatest long poem written in the nineteenth century. Browning went on to be recognized as one of the foremost poets of early Victorian England, influencing such writers as Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson. She began writing poems at a young age, finding success with the 1844 publication of Poems. Her marriage to the prominent Victorian poet Robert Browning caused the final break between Browning and her family, after which she moved to Italy and lived there with Robert for the rest of her life. mute and white And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down on my knee to-night. mute and white By Elizabeth Barrett Browning My letters all dead paper. ![]() ![]() The daughter of a wealthy family-her father made his fortune as a slave owner in Jamaica, while her mother’s family owned and operated sugar plantations, mills, and ships-Browning eventually became an abolitionist and advocate for child labor laws. Sonnets from the Portuguese 28: My letters all dead paper. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an English poet. ![]()
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The title page notes: A reprint of the first edition, with the illustrations, and an introduction, biographical and bibliographical by Charles Dickens The Younger. Although there is no date, it was probably published in the early 1900s. ![]() ![]() A vintage edition of the well-known Charles Dickens book David Copperfield. ![]() ![]() Advising and protecting each other become pivotal in surviving the numerous overt and covert ways a spy can be exposed. Seduction and pregnancy are volatile and dangerous acts that could easily end in a woman’s death as a collaborator. The German enemies are shown as foolishly arrogant and careless in their conversations, which become fodder for the Resistance’s victorious actions. The reader comes to feel their fear before, during and after they complete each mission, as well as the exhilaration experienced with each success. ![]() The bond and the passion of each spy’s work are the center and essence of the story. The “Alice” in the title is the head of a widespread female WWI resistance group. This novel doesn’t have the usual plot about the Resistance in WWI and WWII. Eve has a passionate obsession as well: to find the man who was her boss, in 1915, in a restaurant catering to German officers. Through a series of unlikely circumstances, Charlie becomes acquainted with Eve Gardiner, a hard, disgruntled woman with mangled hands. ![]() Charlie refuses to accept that Rose is probably dead. ![]() ![]() Clair is unmarried, pregnant, and unwilling to end her “little problem.” She is also dealing with the death of her brother and a determination to find her cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi Germany during WWII. ![]() ![]() When the story begins, we meet a series of young adults: a waiter in a popular chain restaurant, an assistant manager of a video game store, an associate working at a jewelry kiosk, and a group of high school students visiting the movie theater together. These incidents are such a common occurrence that they don’t seem all that shocking to see on the news anymore, making this story feel both realistic and extremely relevant. I don’t want to get political and I’m not interested in a debate–this isn’t the venue for that–but I think one of the reasons Shelter in Place made me so emotional at times was the “this could happen anywhere, this could happen to my loved ones” feeling I got in the pit of my stomach while listening to this story. I read an article a few months ago that said there had been 288 schools shootings in the US since 2009–a figure that doesn’t the shootings at concerts, movie theaters, shopping centers. ![]() ![]() Ward’s Children or Wrath would make you feel things, all of the things? So will Nora Roberts’ Shelter in Place. ![]() ![]() ![]() Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. ![]() ![]() Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. ![]() She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. ![]() ![]() ” Frederick DouglassĪt the age of 20, after several failed attempts, he escaped from slavery and arrived in New York City on Sept. 4, 1838. “I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. From that moment on, Frederick knew that education would be his pathway to freedom. Frederick’s lessons ended abruptly one day when he heard Auld scold his wife, telling her that if a slave knew how to read and write it would make him unfit to be a slave. In defiance of a state law banning slaves from being educated, Frederick, as a young boy, was taught the alphabet and a few simple words by Sophia Auld, the wife of Baltimore slaveholder Hugh Auld. His journey from an enslaved child, separated at birth from his mother, to one of the most articulate orators of the 19th century, was nothing short of extraordinary. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, in 1818, became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do you still have hair and are in need of a fashionable comb? Look no further than Cave’s specially-designed Warren Ellis’ “ Pure Exploitation” comb, named for Cave’s long-time contributor, the multi-talented Warren Ellis. If Satan is more your speed then Cave’s red Devil pencils with printed quotes by Cave on them should be more than evil enough for you. 2 pencils when you can use Nick Cave’s Sex pencils? While I’m not sure when I might actually need to use a pencil these days if I had to, Nick Cave’s Sex Pencils would be the ones I’d want in my collection. This is good news if you, like us here at Dangerous Minds, are all about all things Nick Cave. Nick Cave’s online store Cave Things has been offering up material possessions designed by Cave since 2020. ![]() Nick Cave describing his newly launched Cave Things online store in 2020. “It’s the obsessive and dangerous end of granny-core. Stickers featuring Nick Cave in his famous ‘Suck My Dick’ t-shirt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This gorgeous edition also includes over 100 new color and black-and-white illustrations, including images by Salvador Dalí and Barry Moser, which complement the original John Tenniel art. Now, on the sesquicentennial of Alice's 1865 publication, comes this deluxe edition that combines all Gardner's annotations with updates from his Knight Letter columns and correspondence with leading Carrollian experts. As a result, Martin Gardner's groundbreaking work went on to sell over a million copies, establishing the modest math genius as one of our foremost Carroll scholars. First appearing in 1960, The Annotated Alice became an instant classic by, among other things, decoding the wordplay and mathematical riddles embedded within Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. "Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland comes this richly illustrated and expanded collector's edition of Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a diary style book, and I can see why other reviews have compared it to Bridget Jones' Diary. After a showdown near the end of the book, where Lydia puts everyone in their place and proves just how hard she works, the workplace does end up a little more equal. Her colleagues belittle Lydia and claim that she is not doing her fair share, because she has to go to school assemblies and sports days. Why Mummy Swears highlights the inequalities of the workplace in the fact that her colleague Lydia is treated differently because she is the only mother in the office. When Ellen starts her new job, she fails to mention that she has children, and once she hasn't mentioned them, it becomes increasingly difficult to blurt out the truth. It made me incredibly thankful that my husband helps out at home, and treats me as his equal. ![]() Why Mummy Swears grapples with some huge topics, divorce, pregnancy, not wanting children, and equality at work, but personally I feel it fails to adequately tackle inequalities in the home. Frustratingly, though, I found the lead character Ellen difficult to warm to, which led to me struggling through the book a little. ![]() ![]() ![]() She gives up skating and acts as though she never did it to begin with. But one day she finds a piece of clothing in her room that changes her entire world. As a child Hudson was the prima dona ice skater. A girl who's fighting with different wars in her family, friends, as well as in herself. Read moreīy the look of this cover, I was expecting something very girly and sweet. Because in a place where opportunities are fleeting, she knows this chance may very well be her last. It’s time for Hudson to ask herself what she really wants, and how much she’s willing to sacrifice to get it. She’s got a lot on her plate, and for a girl who’s been burned before, risking it all is easier said than done. Of course, this is also the moment a cute, sweet guy walks into her life-and starts serving up some seriously mixed signals. So when things start looking up and she has another shot at her dreams, Hudson is equal parts hopeful and terrified. Now she’s a girl who doesn’t believe in second chances, a girl who stays under the radar by baking cupcakes at her mom’s diner and obsessing over what might have been. Then a betrayal changed her life and knocked her dreams to the ground. Once upon a time, Hudson knew exactly what her future looked like. From the author of Twenty Boy Summer, a teen pushes the limits to follow her dreams-and learns there’s a fine line between bitter and sweet. ![]() |