![]() ![]() In writing Rooftops of Tehran, I wanted to acquaint the readers with Iran, and bring to life a small part of the centuries-old Persian culture. I’d start in the early hours of the evening and stop at dawn, exhausted, elated and barely aware that the night had passed. Years later, I began to write stories of my own, and quickly realized that writing was more gratifying to me than anything else I had ever done. ![]() Reading his book was an experience that never left me. I was mesmerized by the power of London's words, and stunned by his gift to tell his tale in such a compelling, visual way. ![]() I discovered the gift of reading when I was ten years old, sitting on my own rooftop in Tehran and losing myself in a Farsi translation of Jack London’s White Fang. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out. Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. ![]() Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, as he added volumes to the Foundation series, I would grab up every Foundation book as they came out, ending with Foundation and Earth in 1986. I first read Asimov's original Foundation Triology Back in the early 60's. ![]() In Foundation, Asimov has written a timely and timeless novel of the best - and worst - that lies in humanity, and the power of even a few courageous souls to shine a light in a universe of darkness. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are among the most influential in the history of science fiction, celebrated for their unique blend of breathtaking action, daring ideas, and extensive worldbuilding. ![]() To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. The epic saga that inspired the Apple TV+ series Foundation, now streaming. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.įor 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Look at paleodendrology, the study of thin cores of trees, whose annular growth rings speak of the climates of the past. For evidence of earlier environmental apocalypses and shifts, look at limnology, the study of mud cores taken from wetlands the yellow bands of pollen that sink to the bottom of the lake each spring tell the story of what lived there before. ![]() The collapse of the textile industry is, for me, a regional economic apocalypse that started in the 1960s and crested in the mid-1990s. That’s how I think of essays.īecause apocalypse is nothing new. Poet David Kirby calls the poem the problem-solving machine. I want to figure something out that I can’t any other way. If to write about apocalypse is to write about history, how do I want to do history at its most seductive as an essayist, not a historian? I love material culture-the dogwood shuttle from the textile mill-and the power that comes from creating context between objects, phrases, and moments. I think of a textile mill in my hometown, in upstate South Carolina, abandoned twenty years, overgrown with briers and Virginia creeper. ![]() ![]() It’s history-looking at the past through the eyes of the present, and looking reflexively, too, to try and discern what the past has to tell us about now. Friends, thank you for your attention, for sharing these thoughts with me.įor me, writing the apocalypse isn’t fortunetelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gora was originally not a hindu, but a follower of the Brahmo Samaj. Gora is an orthodox Hindu and strictly follows all customs and beliefs of the Hindus. The name Gora is short for Gourmohan, and he had earned this name because of his extremely fair complexion. He is contrasted against his closest friend Gora. Binoy is an orphaned boy, rational, highly intelligent, modest yet bright, like the ordinary run of educated Bengali gentlemen. Words of the two protagonists, Binoy and Gora. In the novel Gora, Tagore brings forth his ideas through the Written in an almost poetic language, Gora raises controversial questions about the Indian identity. ![]() Rather than the material struggles faced by man, Gora tries to portray the inner struggles he faces in the endeavour to achieve freedom. Woven with bursts of philosophy and arguments, this novel is directed to a person’s struggle as he pursues Truth. Apart from bringing to light many problems prevailing in the society, the book deals with the inner conflict of man as he strives to distinguish between right and wrong. At first, the reader may assume that it is another book about the oppression of the Indians by the British. Gora is a novel written by Rabindranath Tagore set in the 19th century India, when it was under the clutches of the British. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've had mixed experiences with Alexis Hall in the past, and I honestly didn't know he could be so funny. ![]() Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened.īut the thing about fake-dating is that it can feel a lot like real-dating. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Unfortunately apart from being gay, single, and really, really in need of a date for a big event, Luc and Oliver have nothing in common. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. He's a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he's never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship.and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Luc O'Donnell is tangentially-and reluctantly-famous. ![]() ![]() She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole. Raised half in our world, half in "Elsewhere", she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. On the one hand, she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. "He never says please", she sighed, but she gathered up her things. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - Errand requiring immediate attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2021. ![]() ![]() These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. I learned a lot about Einstein from this book and Isaacson brought him alive in terms of his personality. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Einstein by Walter Isaacson - By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. ![]() His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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