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![]() The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Translations Keep reading to learn how to choose one that’s right for you. ![]() Still, there are a TON of versions out there. ![]() 1990 – Anonymous, revised by David CowardĪpart from Robin Buss, I don’t know of any translator who re-did the whole thing from scratch. ![]()
![]() ![]() Undset's descriptions of the Norwegian people and countryside coupled with her profound understanding of the human heart won her worldwide literary acclaim. With its setting in modern times, Ida Elisabeth examines the difficulties inherent in male-female relationships as they are experienced in contemporary society. As in Undset's other fiction, however, Ida Elisabeth poignantly illustrates how poor choices affect the course of a person's life and how the suffering endured because of grievous mistakes can become the means by which a love is purified. Unlike Undset's famous historical novels, which are set in medieval Norway, the story of Ida Elisabeth opens in 1930. ![]() As she contemplates marrying again, Frithjof, now gravely sick, re-enters her life. Still young, the admirably hardworking Ida attracts the attention of a successful lawyer, who possesses the manly virtues that her husband lacked. When Frithjof becomes involved with another woman, Ida Elisabeth leaves him and moves with her children to a small town. ![]() ![]() Early in their marriage, she realizes that her charming husband is incapable of supporting the family and she sews dresses to make ends meet. In this compelling drama about fidelity, sorrow and forgiveness, Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset tells the story of Ida Elisabeth, who marries her teenage sweetheart, Frithjof, in an effort to redeem her reputation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His characters have personalities and depth, and if most of them aren’t very nice people, well, that’s appropriate to the dystopian hellholes they inhabit. He can also vividly ground the reader in the viscerality of a character’s experience, the physical sensations and emotions, and make even vastly unlikable people sympathetic and compelling. Peter can write a paragraph about a spaceship course-correcting on a high-g burn that would make Herman Melville wring his hands in envy. But he’s also a poet-a damned fine writer on a sentence level, who can make you feel the blank Lovecraftian indifference of the sea floor or of interplanetary space with the same ease facility with which he can pen an absolutely breathtaking passage of description. His work is rigorous, unsentimental, and full of the sort of brilliant little moments of synthesis that make a nerd’s brain light up like a pinball machine. Peter is crown royalty among writers of science fiction’s most difficult subgenre-that generally referred to as “hard” science fiction. With that classic opening line-spoken in the voice of Siri Keeton, first-person narrator-Peter Watts does not so much invite as abduct the reader into the experience of a Human being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, about to discover just how wrong the universe can really be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your snuggle bug." Eliza finally answered. Oh, I knew damn well he was referring to Sacha.įreaking Gordo snickered from across the table before putting his hands up in surrender when I glared at him. "Who the heck else would you be talking about?" I asked, but I knew. "I love Mase, but it'll be a sunny day in my asshole before you and him get together," he mumbled. ![]() It was partially the truth… but mostly, I didn’t want to talk about the man who had been kissing my shoulder hours ago. "He's always calling me his wife, or telling people I don't know that we're getting married," I replied, elbowing him back as hard as he got me. "I'm not gonna go into details on how disturbing it is that I say ‘your boyfriend’ and you automatically think of fucking Mase." ![]() I made a face in the direction of my plate before shooting a glance upward to find Gordo’s eyes on me, a smirk on his face.Įli made a gagging noise, elbowing me hard in the ribs. “So what's going on with you and your boyfriend?" Eli asked me right before he shoved a forkful of eggs into his mouth during breakfast the next morning. ![]() ![]() Schlosser recounts how McDonald’s and its ilk have fought against unions, sometimes closing stores to prevent workers from unionizing. ![]() Turnover is huge, and the companies profit from it: Short-term workers accrue few benefits and are less likely to organize. Teenagers and recent immigrants make up much of the fast food workforce, often under intimidating and poor conditions. To promote mass production and profits, the industry must keep labor and material costs low. By bringing the all-American concept of assembly-line production into the food industry, they started an industry that would be worth billions. ![]() Shrewd entrepreneurs like Carl Karchner and Ray Kroc expanded their drive-in restaurants to accommodate Americans’ increasing mobility and desire for familiarity. The McDonald’s, Burger Kings, and Wendy’s of the world have their roots in the car-centric culture of California of the late 1940s and 1950s, a culture that spread as the interstate highway system was laid and suburbs sprawled nationwide. It is a serious piece of investigative journalism into an industry that has helped concentrate corporate ownership of American agribusiness, while engaging in labor practices that are often shameful. Yet Fast Food Nation is far more than a lament for home cooking and mom-and-pop diners. ![]() Fast Food Nation traces the history of the fast food industry from modest hotdog stands to the umpteen billion burgers sold as America spread its gospel of quick-and-easy (and greasy) cuisine around the globe. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is this realization-that there will always be children who need moments of bravery, who need rosy cheeks, who need to build snowmen, and who are then eager for a spring day-that makes Jack realize why he is a forever boy, and worthy of becoming a Guardian of Childhood. ![]() Through helping them, Jack finds the warmth he’s been yearning for, and realizes bringing joy to others can melt his own chill. To keep the cold in his heart from taking over, he spreads it to the landscapes around him and earns a new name: Jack Overland Frost.īut a true friend always comes through, and on one particularly bleak night, MiM shines down and shows Jack a group of children in great peril. And while Nightlight has fun sailing icy winds and surfing clouds, he is also lonely without his friend MiM. But when Pitch destroys MiM’s world, he nearly destroys Nightlight too, sending him plunging to Earth where, like Peter Pan, he is destined to remain forever a boy, frozen in time. Discover how Jack Frost keeps the hearts of children happy in the third picture book in Academy Award winner William Joyce’s New York Times bestselling and “dazzlingly inventive” ( Publishers Weekly) The Guardians of Childhood series.īefore Jack Frost was Jack Frost, he was Nightlight, the most trusted and valiant companion of MiM, the Man in the Moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are having trouble finding the link to add a new thread, try this. Please avoid all-caps, especially in thread topics, as it is considered SHOUTING. They are able to edit and improve the Goodreads catalog, and have made it one of the better catalogs online.Īctivities include combining editions, fixing book and author typos, adding book covers and discussing policies. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who have applied for and received librarian status on Goodreads. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() ![]() is wasteful and ridiculous excess." Gilding a lily, which is already beautiful and not in need of further adornment, is excessive and wasteful, characteristics of the age Twain and Warner wrote about in their novel. Twain and Warner got the name from Shakespeare's King John (1595): "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book. ![]() The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards judges. She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction. ![]() She began writing science fiction as a teenager. ![]() Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.Īfter her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. ![]() |