Had she been born in the latter half of the 20th century, George Sand would have raised few eyebrows. Her penchant for wearing trousers and smoking roll-ups, her sexual experiments, even an immoderate enthusiasm for making jam, would today pass as unremarkable behaviour in a woman novelist. ...
Posted onApril 11, 2025byGeorge Phillies He shook his head. “In that case, I believe that this conversation has advanced to its natural stopping point.” “Agreed,” Broadbent said. “I’m always happy to talk with you on issues of mutual interest. That’s one of the reasons I am he...
I made it to practice a new way of combining the elements, transmuting sand into glass by superheating the air molecules around it. It isn’t supposed to be decorative. Besides, it’s merely an experiment and I’ll probably deconstruct it in a day or two.” Her jaw sagged. “Oh no....
All the while, duncan traces the history of hip-hop, revealing it as a conduit to tell the modern story of Black liberation in this country, following the bloody trail from the end of the Civil Rights Era through the day George Floyd was sacrificed on the streets of America. “Who else ...
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“Animal Farm” is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was ...
Sand, George The Masterpieces Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, 1902. Leather Bound.20 Volumes. Sand, George. The Masterpieces Bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt on spines and covers, frontispieces in 2 states(one colored)...More Add...
George Sand La Mare au Diable (T) "The Devil's Pool" Rural central France I've chosen to highlight "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert simply because I mentioned Julian Barnes' "Flaubert's Parrot" earlier and it ties in neatly. I like making links like that, so here is another: George Sand...
Our narrator, however, is the ghost of a young girl who died five hundred years earlier, haunts their new home, and quickly becomes smitten with the beautiful George Sand. She haunts the Charterhouse and admires Sand from the shadows, digging into her memories and learning more about her —...
Overall, it was bit cheesy (to be expected for a fifty-year-old book called “The Greatest Salesman in the World”), but I ended up impressed by how clever and memorable the story was. Animal Farm Author: George Orwell Read: Jun 2019 Rating: 4/5 I hadn’t read this since high-...