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A tablet was installed in his native place Castiglione delle Stiviere in 1980 to mark the 300th birth anniversary of Beschi. In it, it is mentioned that Beschi is called the Dante of the Tamil language. The fifth world Tamil Congress held at Madurai in January 1981 erected his statue in the city of Madras.
Spy Hook is a 1988 spy novel by Len Deighton.It is the first novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy , from method, to metaphysics , to physics and biology .
The airport novel represents a literary genre that is defined not so much by its plot or cast of stock characters, but by the social function it serves.Designed to meet the demands of a very specific market, airport novels are superficially engaging while not being necessarily profound, usually written to be more entertaining than philosophically challenging.
The series was launched for the 25th anniversary of the Goosebumps franchise and features Slappy the Dummy as the narrator and/or primary antagonist of each book. [1] [2] R. L. Stine signed a new contract with Scholastic to write an additional six Goosebumps books in 2018. [3] [4]
A man named Jack Ruttle asks Sandy for help looking for his younger brother Donal, who went missing the year before. She agrees, never expecting to become missing herself as she discovers the world where everything which has ever been lost goes to, a place called Here.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began [1]) is a 2011 book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction. [2] [3]
There were originally planned to be only six stories, with one being submitted by a fan through a competition. However, the winning entry by then 12-year-old Lauren Roberts, "Of Mums and Wizards" [3] (Lisa's worry) ended so sadly that Wilson was motivated to write a seventh story to give the book a happier ending. [4]