Woland introduces himself as a foreign professor specializing in black magic. “If you really want to understand Russia, in particular the Russian people or just people in general, the book you have to read is one you’ve probably never heard of, it’s called The Master and Margarita.”Ī classic of Soviet literature penned by Mikhail Bulgakov during the height of 1930s Stalinist repression, the book opens when a peculiar man named Woland sits beside two members of Moscow’s intellectual elite on a park bench in the heart of the city. “Neither” she quickly replied, shaking her head. At the time, I had yet to read the classics of Russian literature, so one day while walking to class I asked for her advice: “where should I start, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?” A close friend in college emigrated to the US from Russia shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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A glossary of names and suggestions for further reading.Topically arranged commentaries and interpretations-seventy-eight in all, thirty-nine of them new to the Second Edition-from classic assessments to current scholarship.Source and background materials, including Milton's greatest prose work, Areopagitica, in its entirety and key selections from the Bible.An illuminating introduction and abundant explanatory annotations by Gordon Teskey.Spelling and punctuation have been modernized for student readers. The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. They feature explicit and graphic sex of all sorts-with an emphasis on Rough. These hot and steamy stories are intended for adults only. And a shifter I've never really seen in books before-the Were-Stag. Then there's the real mega sexy shifter-the Incubus who can take the shape you most desire. Then there’s the main character of Sins of Father Wolf-a newly ordained priest who may be starting to accept his sexual orientation-but not his tie to the Moon. Joshua in Virgin Gay Werewolf is young and still at the stage of coming out-both as gay and a werewolf. And what’s more romantic than a main character who bonds for life? Are there gay shifters? Hell yes! Some of them, like Dallas and Jax in Eye of Wolf are out and proud. They’re powerful, possessive, and have strong appetites they don’t always repress. What is the attraction of modern-day sexy shifters? They’re usually ultra-masculine. The novel is clearly highly autobiographical in its content. The writing process on this novel was laborious, taking three weeks in November and December, and the final product turned out to be the longest work Kafka ever completed in his life. Finally, The Metamorphosis appeared in print in 1915, after Kafka asked a publisher to put it out in a very unusual display of concern for publication. 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Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak) A delightful old -fashioned Christmas story about two sisters, Nancy, 10 and Plum, 8.ġ954 Mrs. It is a story Betty told her daughters, Joan and Anne, each night at bedtime, making it up as she went along. “Nancy and Plum” is a children’s book that Betty MacDonald first published in 1952. One hilarious situation after another with Betty trying to earn a living in a country without any jobs. During the depression she went back to live with her mother leaving a failed chicken farm and a dead marriage behind her. “Anybody Can Do Anything” takes up Betty MacDonald’s story before her bout with tuberculosis in “The Plague and I”. In this delightful children’s book Mrs.Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeve, but she still has her upside-down house, her delicious cookies and her ability to understand how children feel. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (Illustrated by Hilary Knight) An upbeat account of her battle at age 30.ġ949 Mrs. “The Plague and I” is the sequel to “The Egg and I” and tells how Betty MacDonald learned that she had tuberculosis and must enter a sanatorium for treatment. Piggle-Wiggle and her hilarious adventures and advice. Piggle-Wiggle” is an introduction to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Illustrated by Hilary Knight) “The Egg and I” is Betty MacDonald’s first autobiographical best seller.This hilarious and heartwarming classic is about working a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington in the late 1920’s.ġ947 Mrs. |