His Good Opinion

Author : Nancy Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0984731202

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His Good Opinion by Nancy Kelley Pdf

Mr. Darcy speaks from his heart: Pride and Prejudice from Darcy's point of view Though tired of Society's manipulations, Darcy never thought to be enchanted by a country maiden. However, on a visit to rural Hertfordshire, Elizabeth Bennet captivates him. Lovely and vivacious, she is everything he is not, and everything he longs to have. Unfortunately, her connections put her decidedly beneath him, and the improprieties he observes in her family do not win his favor. Putting her firmly out of his mind, Darcy returns to London, but Elizabeth is not so easily forgotten. When chance throws them together, Darcy can no longer deny his love, but Elizabeth, put off by his manners, refuses him. To change her mind, he must set aside his proud ways and learn how to please a woman worthy of being pleased. It takes a serious incident for his true character to shine, and for Elizabeth to learn just how valuable is... His Good Opinion

Author : Roosevelt Montas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691224398

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Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montas Pdf

A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Laura Nowlin
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402277849

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If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin Pdf

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063092808

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These Precious Days by Ann Patchett Pdf

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

Author : Samuel Park
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501178795

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The Caregiver by Samuel Park Pdf

From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes a “luminous mother-daughter saga” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young woman who is forced to flee 1980s Brazil for California, and in doing so unearths the hidden life of her enigmatic mother. Mara Alencar’s mother Ana is her moon, her sun, her stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl in perilous 1980s Rio de Janeiro. With no other family or friends her own age, Ana eclipses Mara’s entire world. They take turns caring for each other—in ways big and small. But who is Ana, really? As she grows older, Mara slowly begins to piece together the many facets of Ana’s complicated life—a mother, a rebel, and always, an actress. When Ana becomes involved with a civilian rebel group attempting to undermine the city’s cruel Police Chief, their fragile arrangement begins to unravel. Mara is forced to flee the only home she’s ever known, for California, where she lives as an undocumented immigrant, caregiving for a dying woman. It’s here that she begins to grapple with her turbulent past and starts to uncover vital truths—about her mother, herself, and what it means to truly take care of someone. A “lovely and heartbreaking” (People) story that is “simultaneously dreamlike and visceral” (The Atlantic), The Caregiver is “a beautiful testament to Samuel Park’s extraordinary talents as a storyteller…that reads, in some moments, like a thriller—and, in others, like a meditation on what it means to be alive…A ferocious page-turner with deep wells of compassion for the struggles of the living—and the sins of the dead” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Author : John Doherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026408818

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Mary Herbert: Or the Fallible World by John Doherty Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 7697 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027225088

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Charles Dickens' Most Influential Works (Illustrated) by Charles Dickens Pdf

Our Mutual Friend - explores the conflict between doing what society expects of a person and the idea of being true to oneself The Pickwick Papers - To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, Samuel Pickwick suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members. Oliver Twist is an orphan who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin… A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. David Copperfield is a fatherless boy who is sent to lodge with his housekeeper's family after his mother remarries, but when his mother dies he decides to run away… Hard Times is set in the fictional city of Coketown and it is centered around utilitarian and industrial influences on Victorian society. A Tale of Two Cities depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. Great Expectations depicts the personal growth and development of an orphan nicknamed Pip in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century. Bleak House – legal thriller based on true events. Little Dorrit – criticize the institution of debtors' prisons, the shortcomings of both government and society. COLLECTED LETTERS THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS by John Forster

Author : Richard William Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Public opinion
ISBN : BL:A0017769461

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Public Opinion considered in letters between one of his friends and R. W. Barnes by Richard William Barnes Pdf

Author : James Boswell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300141269

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Facts and Inventions by James Boswell Pdf

James Boswell (1740–1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell’s journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.

Author : United States. President (1881-1885 : Arthur)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015069722273

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Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Papers Relating to the War in South America, & Attempts to Bring about a Peace, Submitted to the Senate, January 26 & 27, 1882, & to the House of Representatives, January 26 & February 17, 1882 ... by United States. President (1881-1885 : Arthur) Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112042031556

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The Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Susanna Rowson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460404034

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Reuben and Rachel by Susanna Rowson Pdf

Susanna Haswell Rowson, a popular and prolific writer, actress, and educator in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had a truly transatlantic life and career, moving twice from England to America and publishing extensively in both countries. A transatlantic sensibility informs her fictionalized “history” of America, Reuben and Rachel, which traces ten generations of an extended family, beginning with the marriage of Christopher Columbus’s son to a native Peruvian princess, moving through the Tudor succession crises and the colonial settlement of New England, and ending with the title characters, who leave England for America, renounce titles of nobility, and consider their children “true-born Americans.” In Rowson’s representation, the American character derives from fusion and hybridity, the results of intermarriage across racial, religious and national lives.

Author : April Karber
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798871155592

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Elizabeth Bennet's Good Opinion by April Karber Pdf

"Elizabeth's Good Opinion" invites readers into a captivating "what if" journey within the beloved world of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." With cherished characters and familiar story beats infused with unexpected twists, this narrative offers a fresh and exhilarating take on the classic tale. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that love can be brought on by circumstance and with this is mind, Mrs. Bennet sends her eldest daughter away to London to be thrown into the company of Mr. Bingley." Mr. Darcy learns of Elizabeth's poor opinion of him in Meryton and endeavors to reshape her impression, leading to a deepening attraction that threatens to disrupt the carefully laid plans of his life. However, the sudden appearance of George Wickham shakes Mr. Darcy from his romantic musings and spurs him to share the truth about the man's danger to the neighborhood with Colonel Forster and Mr. Bennet before departing to London to distance himself from his enemy and the temptation that is Elizabeth Bennet. As the remainder of the Bingley party departs Netherfield without any assurances of a return, Jane and Elizabeth journey to London in the hope of rekindling a connection with Mr. Bingley. Fate, however, has different designs, reuniting them with Mr. Darcy. In London, Elizabeth's disdain for Mr. Darcy finds new reasons to intensify, while Jane reevaluates her feelings for Mr. Bingley, questioning whether her affections have always surpassed his. The question hangs in the air: Will Jane and Bingley secure their happily ever after, and can Mr. Darcy finally win Elizabeth Bennet's good opinion? Prepare for a delightful and unpredictable journey through Regency-era romance, offering a fresh perspective on this timeless love story.

Author : George William Childs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN : PRNC:32101028205084

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Recollections by George William Childs Pdf