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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel published on 27 December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the Rowohlt Verlag on an initiative by Kurt Wolff.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared was released as a hardback and audiobook in 2009, and as a paperback in 2010. [1] It became the best selling book in Sweden in 2010, and by July 2012 had sold three million copies worldwide. [2] The audiobook, read by the actor Björn Granath, won the Iris Ljudbokspris award in ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
In search of a cure, he consults a doctor, who prescribes intensive work and medicine. Dutilleul makes no change to his rather inactive life, however, and a year later still retains his ability to pass through walls, although with no inclination to use it. However, a new manager arrives at his office and begins to make his job unbearable.
Inside, through the window, they see a young woman, presumably Mrs Hagan, and a small boy. Hagan fetches a rug from the house so that Selina can sit on the wall. The narrator, sensing that Mrs Hagan, looking toward them from inside, is not aware of them, wonders whether she is blind; Selina remarks that her dress is out of fashion.
The Hello Goodbye Window was published to favorable reviews and is recommended for grades Pre K-1. Lisa Von Drasek, a curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections for the University of Minnesota recommended The Hello, Goodbye Window for teachers to read aloud in class, saying that it is a great role model for young children. [ 3 ]
After the lesson, she goes for a walk with her brother to the esplanade. Here, the story changes from present to past narrative as Mansfield shows that the music lesson, the walk etc. all occurred in Matilda's past, and she and her brother are actually sailing away on board a ship several years down the line, that all that went before were ...