A Farewell to Arms

The road to Marrakesh The night before their departure from Anfa, Antonio lay on the creaking bed, staring at the ceiling of his room in the house in the Alt Baha. He wondered how Carolina would be managing without him and whether she and Lupita were still working the streets of Madrid as a duet. He missed Carolina more than anyone else, including Francisca, who still badly wanted to marry him. He liked her but remained unsure of a future with the woman. He wondered whether Carolina had sent…

book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury by showing us that from an ignorant society, a phoenix in the form of the character Guy Montag can arise. This book was published in 1951 by author Ray Bradbury who was also known for the novels Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer, and A Graveyard for Lunatics, along with many other novels and short stories. He has won numerous awards such as the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. He adapted his story The Fireman into the novel Fahrenheit 451. Although this novel was slightly…

Paradise (1920) Flappers and Philosophers (1920) Tales of Jazz Age (1922) The Beautiful and Damned (1922) The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender Is the Night (1934) The Last Tycoon (1941) Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) John Dos Passos (1896-1970) Three Soldiers (1921) Manhattan Transfer (1925) U.S.A. trilogy - The 42nd Parallel (1930) - 1919 (1932) - The Big Money…

First off, the official language is Portuguese which makes up almost 100 percent of the population. Brazilians have a strong national ideology that their land is a “racial democracy”. As far as the Brazilian class system goes, people with darker skin tend to be economically and socially disadvantaged. Class is determined by economic status and skin color. Women make up forty percent of the workforce but are found with lower paying jobs than males such as teaching, nursing, and jobs with clerical…

(Pic COVER) MOUSE AND DRAGON By IAN T. WALKER (pic TITLE PAGE) These fourteen children’s stories first appeared in “Lilly and Ian, Mouse and Dragon” which was published by Partridge, Singapore in 2015. That book was inspired by the author’s love of a Chinese woman called Lilly. Of this collection the author writes, “I showed other stories I had written to a publisher in China and he said they did…

teachings of the leaders of their faith, and found it at variance with their limited understanding, they arose to perpetrate such unseemly acts.... Consider Moses! Armed with the rod of celestial dominion, adorned with the white hand of Divine knowledge, and proceeding from the Paran of the love of God, and wielding the serpent of power and everlasting majesty, He shone forth from the Sinai of light upon the world. He summoned all the peoples and kindreds of the earth to the kingdom of eternity,…

not going anywhere! BERNARDONE: (Roaring) Home! FRANCIS: My home is here – here in the square. And these men and women who have gathered to hear me...they are my father and mother. (Old Bernardone went wild. Grabbing his son round the waist with both arms, he tried to wrench him away from the column.) I'm not going. I have no father, no mother. I have no home – only…

African cousins from Europe and America, and given a chance to explain how they saw things and what they would like to see happen. The radical social change is evident as well, although in this earlier period, it occurred in small amounts. The call to arms of the workers, employing them to use their “invincible weapons” and declaring that force could be used as a last resort are essential changes to a society that had not thought that way…

The book is so seamlessly written that it is not merely lifelike but also, in the best sense, novel like. It narrates a story in a skillful manner, with much attention to character. DeLillo makes us familiar with some peculiar habits of the characters. Like Everett cannot make himself go to bed at night without checking that the oven is off, and then sometimes double-checking, and reminding himself as he climbs the stairs that he has in fact completed his check. No doubt DeLillo has chosen such…