Jean Rhys's story 'The Day They Burned the Books' (1960) has a pivotal place in her career and in literary history. Rhys lost her sense of a literary vocation by 1949 when she was in her very late fifties; 'The Day They Burned the Books', written by early 1953, marked its return...
The Year They Burned the BooksReviews the book "The Year They Burned the Books," by Nancy Garden.Nancy Gardenmacmillan
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they remained ladies and gentlemen, royalty in exile—bitter, aloof, incurious, kind to one another, diamond hard, as bright and brittle as the crystals of the broken chandelier over their heads. The
In 1933, copies of Heine's books were among the many burned on Berlin's Opernplatz. To commemorate the event, one of the most famous lines from Heine's 1821 play Almansor is now engraved at the site: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen." ("Where t...
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the family and they would feed these special friends. In the large yard stood thirteen trees of different sizes. One day,while Joey was playing with his sister under the trees,he noticed that a tree trunk(树干) had a sad look. He ran into the house to tell his mom about it. She tol...
and they burned all the books and the chevrolets and they grow so fast they never crawl if you get tired of satellite flyers and fate let you down under the wire and over the moon i'm around when you gonna grow up mama always said but i just wanna walk around with a dollar bill ...
Last week, we visited a park in Hebei Province. We were surprised to find most of the trees died from fires. The workers told us that the trees died soon after people planted them because they didn't watered them well enough. So the workers burned(燃烧) them and cleaned the place to ...