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The strict control of food made even simple items, such as bread, potatoes, or tea, seem valuable. [3] The Narnia books elevate the value of "good ordinary food," such as the tea, fish and potatoes provided by the Beavers to the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. [4]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a 1969 children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by American children's author and illustrator Eric Carle.The plot follows a very hungry caterpillar that consumes a variety of foods before pupating and becoming a butterfly.
Although the book addresses many different issues—poverty, alcoholism, lying, etc.—its main theme is the need for tenacity: the determination to rise above difficult circumstances. [4] Although there are naturalistic elements in the book, it is not fundamentally naturalistic. The Nolans are financially restricted by poverty, yet they find ...
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894) The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (1894–1895) The Blue Lagoon, by Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1908) Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916) [3] All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new definition of “healthy” food for the first time in 30 years. The new definition will apply to manufacturers who want to call their ...
It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932 , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
The Book of Nonsense, "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" Edward Lear (12 May 1812 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks , a form he popularised.