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The book echoes such popular novels as Rousseau's Julie or the New Héloise by linking her feminine virtue and motherhood to her sacrifice in a cycle of suffering and consolation. Roland says her mother's death was the impetus for her "odyssey from virtuous daughter to revolutionary heroine" as it introduced her to death and sacrifice—with ...
The Girondins were a moderate political faction created during the Legislative Assembly period. [17] They were the political opponents of the more radical representatives within the Mountain. The Girondins had wanted to avoid the execution of Louis XVI and supported a constitution that would have allowed a popular vote to overturn legislation. [17]
Animals Are My Life, episode in the TV series The World About Us, BBC (1978) Ark on the Move, TV series, Primedia (Canada) / Channel 4 (UK) (1982) The Amateur Naturalist, TV series, CBC / Channel 4 (UK) (1983) Ourselves & Other Animals, TV series, Primetime Television and Harcourt Films (1987). Durrell in Russia, TV series, Channel 4 (UK) (1986)
The Adventure series is a collection of children's adventure novels by Willard Price.The original series, comprising 14 novels, was published between 1949 and 1980, and chronicles the adventures of teenagers Hal and Roger Hunt as they travel the world collecting exotic and dangerous animals.
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts is a 1910 fantasy field guide by William Thomas Cox (1878–1961), Minnesota’s first State Forester and Commissioner of Conservation, with illustrations by Coert du Bois (1881–1960; US Consul and forester) and Latin classifications by George Bishop Sudworth (1862–1927; Chief Dendrologist of the Forest Service ...
This category is for novels about animals, including anthropomorphic animals, written for children and young adults. See also : Category:Animal tales Contents
Due to the book's commercial success and timeliness of the 2016 election, some tried to use "Hillbilly Elegy" to explain how Trump won over previously Democratic areas. This gave Vance the ...
As one reviewer explained, it is a book "about animals that might exist." [4] On the Track of Unknown Animals cites animals that had only been discovered relatively recently, such as the pygmy chimpanzee, coelacanth, Komodo dragon and giant panda; and those that are believed to have become extinct relatively recently, such as the moa and Tasmanian tiger.