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The modern film The Birth of a Nation used the Nat Turner template as the basis of the film and gave a more principled take of Nat Turner. Styron's book did use the stereotypes that subsequently offended some people a few years after the book was released in 1967. To me when someone tackles the subject of Nat Turner I look at it as a Rorschach test. Was he a mad man? Was he a principled man? The documented "confessions" are not corroborated, so no one knows the truth about Turner's life and motivation. Basically the known facts are that Nat Turner and a band of slaves escaped and killed 55 white men, women and children in Southampton VA before being caught and hanged to death on November 11, 1831. Needless to say there are many gaps to fill and Styron created an imaginary story of a young slave who engaged in slave revolt in 1831. The written record of the real life Nat Turner is very scant because all there is is the "Confessions" recorded by his defense lawyer. Styron said that this book is not historical fiction, but rather a meditation on history. While I did not feel that Nat Turner was as good as Sophie's Choice I still highly recommend the novel. A few month's ago I read Sophie's Choice by the same author and was blown away, so I felt I had to read Nat turner as well. Berlin introduced "White Christmas" to Kresa on January 8, 1940. The prolific songwriter couldn't read or write music, yet composed continually, using his "musical secretary," Helmy Kresa, to pen the songs he wrote on the piano. Music journalist Rosen offers a perfect, compact book chronicling the song's birth, initial reception and rise to popularity, simultaneously giving readers an understanding of the iconic Berlin and 1940s American popular culture. Since its 1942 debut (softly crooned by Bing Crosby), artists from Doris Day to the Flaming Lips have recorded their own versions of the tune it's become the world's most frequently recorded song. With its references to glistening treetops and sleigh bells in the snow, Irving Berlin's dreamy ballad has become a monstrously popular classic. Watch for the tentacle here as well, though this one is easier to access safely than the first.įollowing the hovering lamp you will make a right turn at the next curved lamp and ascend a hallway leading to an open area where you will encounter two or three seekers. After passing under a curved lamp you will find a circular pool with an amorphous eye protruding from the depths, next to another pod. A hovering light which you can follow in the absence of a torch or light spell will mark the way forward. Fog combined with abstruse darkness makes for a haunting environment. Visibility is poor in this section of Apocrypha. It may be possible to access it without injury using the Slow Time shout. If you are low on potions or health after the long trek through the Barrow, it is wise to avoid this pod as the tentacle will inevitably strike you. Upon entering you will encounter a small poisoned pool with a pod next to it containing a few books, some gold, and possibly a spell tome. Quickly light a torch or cast a spell of Candlelight as entering the darkness will quickly drain your health. After reading The Sallow Regent you will enter a considerably darker region of Apocrypha than most others. No one even notices as she gets up and goes to the diving board and dives off. On a boat with friends off the Florida coast, she tries to fight her feelings of discontent with steel will and hard liquor. In fact, lately Ramie has begun to feel more than a little empty. But despite it all, she can't ignore the fact that she isn't necessarily happy. She made her fortune and now she hob nobs with the very rich and occasionally the semi-famous, and she enjoys luxuries she only dreamed of as a middle-class kid growing up in Potomac, Maryland. Told with Beth Harbison's wit and warmth, If I Could Turn Back Time is the fantasy of every woman who has ever thought, "If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I'd do things so differently." Thirty-seven year old Ramie Phillips has led a very successful life. Too often the destiny of this region has seemed to be to serve as the front line in other people’s wars. The Glass Wall features an extraordinary cast of characters-contemporary and historical, foreign and indigenous-who have lived and fought in the Baltic, western Europe’s easternmost stronghold. Caught between the giants of Germany and Russia, on a route across which armies surged or retreated, small nations like Latvia and Estonia were for centuries the subjects of conquests and domination as foreign colonizers claimed control of the territory and its inhabitants, along with their religion, government, and culture. Biographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the "Glass Wall" between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account.įew countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic region. In the years following graduation, Blackwell struggled to find work, but in 1857, she co-founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children to serve the poor. “It must be pursued in the light of day, and with public sanction, in order to accomplish its end.”īlackwell ultimately attended Geneva Medical College in western New York: Male students there asked their opinion agreed to admit her, thinking the matter a mere prank. “It was to my mind a moral crusade,” she wrote at the time. Turned away by more than 10 medical schools, Blackwell refused a professor’s suggestion that she disguise herself as a male to gain admission. Blackwell began her pioneering journey after a deathly ill friend insisted she would have received better care from a female doctor. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to be granted an MD degree. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (That name will be familiar to many of the fans of the TV series, and yes, there are some likenesses to what happened in series one). This makes for a story told entirely out of London, but with a lot of Bridgerton brother protectiveness thrown in.Įloise has secretly been writing to Sir Phillip Crane for some time, first a condolence note for the death of his wife Marina. But Eloise has been feeling a bit out of sorts since her best friend Penelope got married and she thinks now is time to enact her escape, a year in the making. She’s been writing so much that her brother suspects she could be the notorious Lady Whistledown. She’s always devising some plan, but in the previous book ( Romancing Mr Bridgerton) Eloise has been a bit quieter. If you’ve watched series one of Bridgerton on Netflix, you know what a whirlwind Eloise Bridgerton is. Why I chose it: The fifth book in the Bridgerton series. The not-so-good: I kind of missed London and the ton. In brief: This is Eloise Bridgerton’s story, where she runs away from London to possibly marry a man she’s never met. She had to be the only teacher in the world who had hogs living under her classroom. She sighed and rolled her eyes up to heaven. Them’s the sounds of hogs that are mighty afeared.Ĭhristy put down her chalk. Must be a varmint got in with them, nine-year-old Creed Allen agreed. Teacher, them ol’ hogs is scared somethin’ awful, Sam Houston Holcombe said. Mabel Bentley, Melissa Bentley, Elizabeth Deerfield, and Jeanette Grady, Christy’s friends from AshevilleĬhristy Huddleston was standing in front of her class writing on the blackboard when suddenly the hogs began squealing at the top of their lungs. Lance Barclay, a young man from Asheville Lety Coburn, mother of Christy’s student, Bessie Christy Rudd Huddleston, a nineteen-year-old girlĪlice Henderson, a Quaker mission worker from Ardmore, Pennsylvaniaĭr. Many are fantastical ghost stories, such as “The Corpse-Rider,” in which a man foils the attempts of his former wife’s ghost to haunt him. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn’s strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper’s. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn |