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In detailing her father's life, she also describes Orthodox Jewish life in America in the early 1900s. [2] All for the Boss became one of the all-time best-sellers for Feldheim Publishers, [3] and Shain's stories and observations are quoted by numerous authors. Her second book, Reaching the Stars (1990), chronicles her experiences as a teacher. [4]
The Lottery Rose is a 1976 young adult novel by Newbery-winning author Irene Hunt. [1] Though written at a middle-school reading level, this book is also suitable for high school readers due to high-interest subject matter.
Gillian Rosemary Rose (née Stone; 20 September 1947 – 9 December 1995) was a British philosopher and writer. Rose held the chair of social and political thought at the University of Warwick until 1995. Rose began her teaching career at the University of Sussex. She worked in the fields of philosophy and sociology.
Rose, Rose, I Love You (Chinese: 玫瑰玫瑰我愛你) is one of the representative novels by the prominent Taiwanese local writer Wang Chen-ho (王禎和). It was initially published by the Vista Publishing House Co. in Taipei in 1984 and later republished by another publishing house in Taipei called Hung Fan in February 1994.
The book appears on numerous university reading lists and is still regularly commented upon at academic conferences and in other books on literature. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Colin Burrow wrote in 2013 that he regarded it as one of "the three most inspiring works of literary criticism written in the twentieth century" together with Erich Auerbach 's ...
A Kirkus reviewer explains Rose's method as follows: “She chose the shelf on the basis of a few self-imposed rules: Several authors needed to appear, and only one could have more than five books, of which she would read three; there would be both contemporary and older works; one book needed to be a classic that she had always wanted to read ...
The book was on The New York Times Best Seller List. [citation needed] In a contemporary review, The New York Times gave the novel a positive review, saying “If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life, you will find them here, glowing with that same vitality which was theirs in life.” [2]
The title of the essay is from the play When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen. The theme of Ibsen's play is the desire and appreciation of life. The play surrounds Irena, a former model and mysterious character, and her idea that although they have been alive, they have not been living. “When we dead awaken we find that we have never lived.”. [5]