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Peace is a 1975 psychological fantasy/ghost story novel by American writer Gene Wolfe. It is the story of a man from a small Midwestern town in the early to mid-20th century, Alden Dennis Weer, who narrates various memories from different parts of his life, including his childhood, early adulthood, and middle to old age.
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink is a 1931 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written during the Great Depression. [1]The poem was included in her collection Fatal Interview, a sequence of 52 sonnets, appearing alongside other sonnets such as "I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields," and "Love me no more, now let the god depart," rejoicing in romantic language and vulnerability. [2]
According to literary review aggregator site Book Marks, A Desolation Called Peace received mostly "Rave" reviews. [5]In his starred BookPage review, Noah Fram compares how Martine’s debut effort showcased her talents in creating a gripping narrative, blending humor and consummate world building, to the more cerebral thematic exploration in A Desolation Called Peace, which he writes features ...
Peace Talks is a novel in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. It is the 16th novel in the series. [ 1 ] It follows the protagonist, Harry Dresden as he attempts to navigate a convoluted peace negotiation between various supernatural powers.
A Book of Ryhmes (the word rhymes is misspelt) [2] is one of six miniature books written by the teenage Brontë, forming part of her juvenilia. [1] [3] Dated 17 December 1829, [4] it measures only 3.8 in × 2.5 in (9.7 cm × 6.4 cm). [1] The book sold for $520 in an auction at Walpole Galleries in New York City in 1916 (equivalent to $14,560 in ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes Marilyn Uricchio didn't like the book at all, she stated that it is a "sparsely-written novel" and it "lacks the freshness of A Separate Peace, so much so that at times it becomes repetitive, almost stale". She argues that Knowles uses descriptors "of the day, the sky, the air with maddening regularity as transitional ...
Drummer Hoff is an illustrated children's book by Barbara and Ed Emberley.Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for the book's illustrations. [1] Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a cumulative tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon named "Sultan", and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off, with the book exploding into a blast of colors.
Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience – Robert A. Seeley, 1994; The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War – Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy, 1984; Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians – Chris Hedges, 2008; The Complaint of Peace – Desiderius Erasmus, 1517 [22]