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The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. In ...
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov [a] (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; [b] 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (/ ɡ ɔːr k i /; Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. [1]
House of the Mann family in Lübeck ("Buddenbrookhaus"), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum. Paul Thomas Mann was born to a hanseatic family in Lübeck, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns, a Brazilian woman of German, Portuguese and Native Brazilian ancestry, who emigrated to Germany with her family ...
The man wrote some 40+ books and most every one I’ve read is a lot of fun. But you need to start with Richard Peck 's A Long Way From Chicago and its sequel A Year Down Yonder, which finally ...
Anyone who did not grab a dream would end up in an eternal, dreamless sleep. [11] Several fictional characters by the name of Sandman have appeared in comic books published by DC Comics. These include fantasy writer Neil Gaiman's 75-part comic book series called The Sandman for Vertigo Comics (an imprint of DC Comics). The original series ran ...
In a tweet from July 2024, Drew Daniel of electronic music duo Matmos described a fictional music genre he encountered in a dream entitled "hit em". Recounted to him by a nondescript woman in the dream, the genre is a type of electronic music "with super crunched out sounds" in a 5/4 time signature with a tempo of 212 beats per minute.
Morpheus ('Fashioner', derived from the Ancient Greek: μορφή meaning 'form, shape') [1] is a god associated with sleep and dreams. In Ovid's Metamorphoses he is the son of Somnus (Sleep, the Roman counterpart of Hypnos) and appears in dreams in human form. From the Middle Ages, the name began to stand more generally for the god of dreams ...
Porter as a young man in Austin Porter traveled along with James K. Hall to Texas in March 1882, hoping that a change of air would help alleviate a persistent cough he had developed. He took up residence on the sheep ranch of Richard Hall, James Hall's son, in La Salle County and helped out as a shepherd, ranch hand, cook, and baby-sitter.