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There Arnold classes British society in terms of Barbarians (aristocrats and landed gentry), Philistines (urban middle class) and Populace (working class). Steedman suggests Middlemarch "is a portrait of Philistine Provincialism". [2] It is worth noting that Eliot went to London, as her heroine Dorothea does at the end of the book.
The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World City) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador. It is located at San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito, 26 km (16 mi) north of the center of Quito.
The first draft of the story, written in pencil, does not vary significantly from the published version; future changes involved the addition of Manwë and Aulë. [T 5] The narrator in the earlier version is the elf Rúmil of Tirion and the language differs from that of the Silmarillion version. "Melkor" is spelt "Melko", and Ilúvatar weeps ...
Each plate is accompanied by a short text which describes the scene and the photographic processes involved in obtaining it. Talbot emphasized the practical implications of his images (for instance, "The whole cabinet of a Virtuoso and collector of old China might be depicted on paper in little more time than it would take him to make a written inventory describing it in the usual way."), but ...
"I, Pencil" is written in the first person from the point of view of a pencil. The pencil details the complexity of its own creation, listing its components (cedar, lacquer, graphite, ferrule, factice, pumice, wax, glue) and the numerous people involved, down to the sweeper in the factory and the lighthouse keeper guiding the shipment into port.
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Nov. 19—Aaron Bartholmey, of Colfax, can now officially say he has the largest pencil collection in the whole world. After a prolonged public counting event in July, Guinness World Records has ...
The Center of the World (original German title: Die Mitte der Welt) is a novel by Andreas Steinhöfel from 1998. [1] [2] It is a story about the problems of growing up, puberty, envy and jealousy, friendship and love. The novel was nominated for the German Youth Literature Award. The book has been translated into English by Alisa Jaffa and was ...