![]() … I shudder to think that such a wonderful tale might remain unpublished."Īnd Samuil Marshak added this to his review: “Judged by the criteria of clarity and courage, the author can perhaps be compared to Archpriest Avvakum. This story marks the entry of a powerful, original, and mature new writer into our literature. ![]() Kornei Chukovsky titled his review “A Literary Miracle” and wrote that Shukhov exemplifies the character traits of a simple Russian man: "he is steadfast, resistant to evil, hardy, cunning but kind, and a jack-of-all-trades to boot. The editor of the journal’s prose section, Anna Berzer, was quick to grasp the significance of the unusual submission, and passed it on to Novy Mir’s editor-in-chief, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, with the remark that it was about “a prison camp though the eyes of a peasant, a very national kind of work.” Once Tvardovsky had joined battle for One Day, he began gathering appraisals of the work from the most authoritative writers of the day, in order to pass their testimonials to the powers-that-be. He sent the manuscript, still titled Щ-854, to the Moscow journal Novy Mir in the fall of 1961. He risked offering it for publication only some two years later, after Khrushchev’s vociferous attack on Stalin’s “cult of personality” at the Twenty-second Party Congress. In May 1959, when Solzhenitsyn was living in Ryazan, he finally sat down to write Щ-854 ( One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich). ![]()
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![]() She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. Huguette Clark was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? ![]() At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. ![]() Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. ![]() ![]() ![]() On August 7, 2012, Smashwords announced Library Direct. ![]() Smashwords is working with multiple library aggregators, and is in the process of signing up additional aggregators. Library aggregators, such as OverDrive and Baker & Taylor's Axis360 service, allow libraries to purchase books. This is from Smashwords' FAQ section:"Does Smashwords distribute to libraries?"Yes! We have two methods of distributing to libraries: 1. For example, if they are teaching Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” teachers are welcome to give students copies of my “Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’: A Retelling in Prose” and tell students, “Here’s another ancient epic you may want to read in your spare time.”Do you know a language other than English? I give you permission to translate any of my retellings of classic literature, copyright your translation in your name, publish or self-publish your translation (but do say it's a translation of something I wrote), and keep all the royalties for yourself.Libraries, download my books free. Teachers are welcome to give students copies of my eBooks as background material. I also give permission to all teachers to give copies of my eBooks to all students forever.Teachers need not actually teach my retellings. ![]() ![]() I also give permission to the state of Texas (and all other states) to give copies of my eBooks to all students forever. I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to give copies of my eBooks to all students and citizens forever. ![]() ![]() Told entirely in splotchy shades of seafoam and black linework, Pond’s signature style feels, like much of the lingo and cultural zeitgeist belying the book, irrevocably tied to a particular place and time. While it was never clear how much of the narrative is fictionalized or exaggerated, this book is even more cinematically unbelievable as the previous one, the much acclaimed Over Easy. The Customer is Always Wrong is the second, even weightier installment in Pond’s series of memoirs about life as a waitress in a diner straddling the wrong and wronger sides of town in 1970s Oakland. Though she briefly wrote for The Simpsons in its early days, Pond has consistently stayed true to her humble roots as a somewhat scrappy, somewhat wacky storyteller and illustrator. ![]() Mimi Pond is something of legend in cartooning and underground comics, having written a number of influential graphic novels, and being one of few women to reach early prominence in the alternative comix scene. Mimi Pond, 448 pgs, Drawn and Quarterly, $29.95 ![]() ![]() Helene Hanff's career saw her move from unproduced playwright to writer of some of the earliest television dramas to becoming a noted writer and personality in her own right, as a quintessential New Yorker. She had to abandon this when she realised that her family needed her to be a wage earner. She decided to teach herself, and she established a daily schedule of study. She said that she was resigned to leaving after a year when the money was used. ![]() Her family could not fund an expensive education, but Hanff won a scholarship to attend Temple University. However, it was said that he still liked the theatre, and he would swap shirts for a chance to get into a theater. Her father had been a performer, but he settled down to sell shirts. ![]() She was born in 1916 to Miriam (born Levy) and Arthur Hanff. ![]() She is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, television play, and film of the same name. Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ![]() ![]() Welcoming back familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny, international bestselling author Anthony Horowitz ticks all the boxes: speed, danger, strong women and fiendish villains, to reinvent the golden age of Bond in this brilliantly gripping adventure. Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race uncovering a plan that could bring the West to its knees. But it's Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious meeting between SMERSH's driver and a sinister Korean millionaire, Jai Seong Sin. ![]() The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a Grand Prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. ![]() Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. ![]() Literary legend James Bond returns to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Yellen urged congressional leaders “to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by acting as soon as possible” to address the $31.4 trillion limit on its legal borrowing authority, adding that it is impossible to predict with certainty the exact date of when the U.S. could default on its debt as early as June 1, if the body does not raise or suspend its statutory borrowing authority before then. WASHINGTON - (AP) – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Monday that the U.S. ![]() ![]() It feels like the perfect book to curl up with on a Sunday afternoon. Every so often, the cloth slips, revealing the old gods, the terrible beasts, the warring forces of light and darkness." Ishiguro drapes realism like a thin cloth over a primordial cosmos. "It aspires to enchantment, or to put it another way, reenchantment, the restoration of magic to a disenchanted world. "A delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope." "One of the most affecting and profound novels Ishiguro has written.I'll go for broke and call Klara and the Sun a masterpiece that will make you think about life, mortality, the saving grace of love: in short, the all of it." A BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR -ONE OF BILL GATES'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR -ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Vogue, USA Today, Town & Country, The Guardian, Vulture, and more ![]() ![]() ![]() “When the coaches walked into the living room of the Tuohys’ lovely Memphis home, the first thing they saw was the Rebel Christmas tree: red and blue branches festooned with nothing but Ole Miss ornaments.” Lewis tells an amazing true story in an appropriately mordant style, some samples of which are: Even if you think all those things, you are going to enjoy Michael Lewis’s book “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.” Your enjoyment, however, will be tempered by dismay about some of what you learn. ![]() Even if you think that if the Watergate and Iran-contra investigations had been really thorough they would have traced both scandals to connivings by college football coaches. Even if you wince at institutions of higher education engaging in the low practice of exploiting young, often black, men who emerge, after four years generating revenues for campus football factories, unscathed by education. Even if you think football consists primarily of two regrettable elements of life - violence, punctuated by committee meetings, called huddles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Afterlives" by Abdulrazak Gurnah, a historical novel historical novel set in colonial German East Africa, what is now Tanzania.“The Candy House” by Jennifer Egan, a sci-fi-ish novel that finds characters able to use a piece of technology to access every memory they've ever had."Liberation Day" by George Saunders, a collection of short stories by Saunders, winner of the Booker Prize, among dozens of other literary awards.“Black Cake” by Charmaine Wilkerson, a novel about two siblings who uncover their mothers’ secrets after she dies.“The School for Good Mothers” by Jessamine Chan, a dystopian drama about mothers who are encouraged to “reform” their parenting.“The Furrows: A Novel” by Namwali Serpell, a novel that explores the grief a sister feels after the death of her little brother.“Trust” by Hernan Diaz, a novel that examines themes of money, power and intimacy, set in the booming but doomed financial world of 1920s New York.John Mandel, a novel spanning places and times that takes the reader from an island off of Vancouver in 1912 to a future colony on the moon. “I wanted to know what was going to happen and who these characters were," she said. When she announced February's book was “Black Cake,” a family saga about siblings discovering their parents’ past, she raved about the novel. ![]() |