![]() ![]() It was the first time an English-language Hamlet had ever been filmed in sound ( Khoon Ka Khoon, Sohrab Modi’s Hindi/Urdu film, preceded it by 13 years, but never quite made it to Peoria) and the deliveries of Olivier’s players enlivened Shakespeare’s words beyond their static beauty. Wielded by Laurence Olivier, one of Shakespeare’s best performers, and distributed in its most consistent form, that energy ignites us.ħ5 years ago, Olivier’s Hamlet was the first time many had ever heard the play performed. Stuck on celluloid, he is a perpetual motion machine of melancholic madness. Managing and capturing every minute detail, Hamlet on film allows its Dane to mutter and fester forever. But for so many, the potency of live performance was balanced against its scarcity-and overtaken by the wide-release, perfectionist quality control of cinema. For most of its existence, it carried whatever connotation your local troupe (if you had one) gave it. Knowing about it, maybe even having gone through it in school-glassy-eyed classmates popcorn reading its couplets around the room, stumbling o’er the “o’ers”-but never truly feeling the emotional, sensational breadth of its power. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I already knew most of the things about Abraham Lincoln but it was good to re-read what I already knew since it has been a long time since I have heard about him. Tell about what they did, how old they were and if his wife Mary did anything or was she a housewife who raised the children. I would extend this book giving more information about his four children and his wife. I really liked how the author made this biography about Abraham and gave a quick synopsis of his life. ![]() The pictures in this book were very illustrative of the story. This was a very short story about a former president whom most people called "Honest Abe". He was then shot at a theater by an actor John Wilkes Booth who favored the south. Abraham later became present and many did not like that he was against slavery and later wrote the Emancipation Proclamation which declared all slaves in the Confederate states free. He fell in love and got married in 1942 to Mary Todd and had four sons. When Abraham started to study law, he became a lawyer and served in the Illinois legislature. When he traveled to New Orleans he saw a slave market for the first time and saw it was miserable. Then he moved to Illinois at the of 21 and helped his father build a new house and plant corn. ![]() His mom died when he was 9 years old and his father got remarried a year later. This was a book about Abraham Lincoln and his upbringing where he lived in a cabin in Kentucky and then Indiana with his sister and mom and dad. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can also find additional stories of Gilda in several anthologies in the Library’s collection. The book won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction after its release. This novel-in-stories follows the story of a young woman who escapes slavery in 1850s Louisiana, and is turned into a vampire while working in a brothel.ĭescribed as “the world’s first black lesbian-feminist vampire novel,” the novel drops into Gilda’s “life” throughout the decades around the U.S., exploring issues of race, sexuality, and identity along the way. Gomez is best known for the modern classic “ The Gilda Stories ,” originally published in 1991. ![]() Our Women in Horror Month author for today is award-winning activist and writer Jewelle Gomez. Created by Bob Helmbrecht, collection development librarian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary was not a targeted victim and the murder was not premeditated. While he is the one who held a pillow to Mary’s face, causing her to suffocate and die, it is important for the reader to question why Bigger murdered her. To understand this, the reader must decide for themselves whether or not Bigger is truly guilty. This novel is about race and justice and what years of racist oppression does to a person. ![]() For Bigger, this means killing a woman because he has no other choice, and actually feeling a moment of empowerment in that decision because it is the first decision made out of free will for the first time.On the surface, this is a novel about crime, and bringing a murderer to justice.Ībstractly, it is much more. And while the conflict of the story is not white versus blacks, it is oppressors verses the repressed, and what the psychological implications of that are. The narrator of the story even states that, “to Bigger and his kind, white people were not really people they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead or a deep swirling river stretching suddenly at one’s feet in the dark,” (110). ![]() ![]() ![]() She sailed to Russia to make friends with Catherine the Great, naming her yacht with her now-banned title, the Duchess of Kingston. ![]() However, like any truly spirited Duchess type, she wasn’t going to let public humiliation on a such a scale get her down. Her cunning plan to wed again without divorcing by skimming round the edge of the law worked rather well, until the day it didn’t, and she ended up in court being tried for bigamy in front of 4000 people. ![]() Unfortunately, on the rebound, she married a libidinous naval officer who should have been a summer romance attempted to keep it secret to retain her maid of honour role (only available to single women) and then met the man she really wanted to marry, the Duke of Kingston. He died when she was five, but through connections the dowryless beauty became maid of honour to Augusta, Princess of Wales. Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, the bigamist Duchess, subject of my new book, was born in 1721 to the Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs."-USA Today "A rousingly racy yarn." Chicago Tribune "A colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel… a compelling and eloquent story."-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Gorgeously detailed"-New York Daily News "At last, a history book you can bring to the beach."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "Once upon a time, Chicago had a world class bordello called The Everleigh Club. ![]() "Delicious… Abbott describes the Levee's characters in such detail that it's easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction."-New York Times Book Review " Described with scrupulous concern for historical accuracy…an immensely readable book." - Joseph Epstein,The Wall Street Journal "Assiduously researched… even this book's minutiae makes for good storytelling." - Janet Maslin,The New York Times "Karen Abbott has pioneered sizzle history in this satisfyingly lurid tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film-like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania before it-pedals furiously (and often fruitlessly) to whip up a spirit of clever invention that once seemed so effortless. The film feels more like a digression than a finale, though, a journey into one character’s origin that then hastily, just before the credits roll, tries to manage a sense of broader completion.Īs has become the sorry hallmark of post- Endgame Marvel, Vol. James Gunn’s film has been advertised as an ending, anyway, the wrap-up to an often winning adventure saga about a ragtag band of space marauders trying, in their messy way, to do good. 3 (in theaters May 5), yet another mini-franchise within the broader Avengers universe has reached its reported end, leaving precious little left of what was once a mighty empire. With the arrival of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() Calpurnia employs code-switching to speak differently when she is at her Black church.Ītticus Finch stands out as a noble white savior, and despite not changing the minds of the all-white jury, receives the respect of the Black community because he deigned to treat a Black man like a person worthy of defense. Their only real connection to the Black community is their maid, Calpurnia, who Scout discovers leads something of a double life. The characters in To Kill a Mockingbird only glimpse the racism surrounding them once Atticus takes on the case of Tom Robinson, the man falsely accused of rape. Instead of seeing the story through the eyes of Scout Finch, the young girl narrating To Kill a Mockingbird, we see The Hate U Give from the perspective of Starr, who is both older and more world-weary than Scout.īecause Scout is white, she centers To Kill a Mockingbird, not on the Black characters in her setting, but on her father, who is defending a Black man from the charge of rape. ![]() They both hit some of the same narrative beats, culminating with a miscarriage of justice because of the inherent racism in American society.īut, of course, these two novels are different because of the narrators. The Hate U Give and To Kill a Mockingbird have many similarities. My first impression of this novel was that it reminded me of To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]() ![]() The book projects American society immediately after World War II into a technologically advanced future where the amplification of humanity's potentials to create and destroy have both miraculous and devastating consequences.Įvents in the chronicle include the apocalyptic destruction of both Martian and human civilizations, both instigated by humans, though there are no stories with settings at the catastrophes. The Martian Chronicles is a science fiction fix-up novel, published in 1950, by American writer Ray Bradbury that chronicles the exploration and settlement of Mars, the home of indigenous Martians, by Americans leaving a troubled Earth that is eventually devastated by nuclear war. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Original Mother Church edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. The stained glass design of the Cross and Crown seal is inspired by a window in Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. Of Mary Baker Eddy are trademarks of The Christian Science Board of DirectorsĪnd are registered in the U.S. The design of the Cross and Crown seal and the facsimile signature Eddy, renewed, 1929Ĭopyright 1906, by Mary Baker G. Eddy, renewed, 1922Ĭopyright 1901, by Mary Baker G. Eddy, renewed, 1918Ĭopyright 1894, by Mary Baker G. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at WashingtonĬopyright renewed 1903, by Mary Baker G. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by ![]() |