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Ursule is conspicuously virtuous, and Balzac was acutely aware of the difficulty of presenting a virtuous heroine in a novel. “Goodness has just one form, evil has a thousand”, he believed: [2] “to be able to portray many virgins, you need to be like Raphael” [3] He hoped that Ursule Mirouët would win the annual Prix Montyon for the book which had rendered the greatest service to ...
Euphrasie (a name from Greek Ευφράσια, "good cheer, joy"), nicknamed Cosette (lit. ' little thing ') by her mother, [2] [3] is the illegitimate daughter of Fantine and Félix Tholomyès, a rich student. She is born in Paris c. 1815.
Narrator, Teenage boy named Ma with a talent for the violin.; Luo, the narrator's best friend, son of two famous dentists and talented in storytelling.; The Little Seamstress, the daughter of a famous local tailor, is a rare beauty with no formal education who cannot read well, so Luo and the narrator read to her.
Shanghai Girls is divided into three parts: Fate, Fortune, and Destiny. Here See treats Chinese immigration from a personal view through Pearl's narration. In On Gold Mountain she objectively placed 100 years of her Chinese family history in the context of the daunting challenges Chinese immigrants faced in coming to America in search of Gold Mountain.
It was among the most popular names for newborn girls in Germany from the 1920s to the 1950s. [2] Ulla, Ursel, and Uschi are German short forms of the name. Ursula is a villain in the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid and its 2023 live-action remake The Little Mermaid. [3] [4] Other forms of the name include: Orsolya in Hungarian
Gifts (2004) is a young adult fantasy novel by Ursula K. Le Guin.It is the first book in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, and is followed in the series by Voices.The story is set in a fictional world, in a barren and poverty-stricken region called the Uplands, some of whose inhabitants have hereditary magical gifts.
Wong, who divorced her ex-husband Justin Hakuta in 2022, shares with the outlet that she has the support of a few key people as she balances motherhood with her comedy career.
Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures [ 1 ] is a 2023 memoir by Chinese American journalist and writer Connie Wang , published by Viking Press . In nine essays, Connie Wang observes the difficulties and changes she experienced with her mother, Qing Li, while growing up. [ 2 ]