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Oprah sat down for a conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, whose epic novel Demon Copperhead is the latest OBC selection—the 98th in the 26-year history of Oprah’s Book Club. The video will be ...
The Last Man Who Knew Everything (2006), written by Andrew Robinson, is a biography of the British polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829). [1]This biography is subtitled Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius, which gives a very brief idea of Young's polymathic career.
He is nicknamed "Demon Copperhead" for the colour of his hair and his attitude (a copperhead is a snake species). Demon spends much of his time with their neighbours, Mr. and Mrs. Peggot, who are raising their grandchild Matt Peggot (nicknamed Maggot). Maggot and Demon are the same age and become best friends. When Demon is in primary school ...
This quote appears at the beginning of Demon Copperhead for a reason. In reimagining this classic tale, Kingsolver brings the present into stark relief, demonstrating that societies, whether in ...
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally.
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Robinson, Andrew (April 2006). "Thomas Young: The Man Who Knew Everything". History Today. 56: 53– 57. Robinson, Andrew (2006). The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone. New York: Pi Press. ISBN 978-0-13-134304-7.
The Last Man is an 1826 science fiction novel by Mary Shelley The Last Man or Last Man may also refer to: Last man, a term used by Nietzsche to describe the antithesis of the Übermensch; The Last Man, an American film directed by Howard Higgin; The Last Man, a Czech comedy film directed by Martin Frič