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Author Virginia Lee Burton has stated that "The Little House was based on our own little house which we moved from the street into a field of daisies with apple trees growing around." [1] Burton denied it was a critique of urban sprawl, but instead wished to convey the passage of time to younger readers. Being a very visually driven book, many ...
J. R. R. Tolkien, a philologist and medievalist as well as a fantasy author, recorded that he disliked William Shakespeare's work. [1] In a letter, he wrote of his "bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays of the shabby use made in Shakespeare [in Macbeth] of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill'".
That Yew Tree's Shade is a 1954 detective novel by the British writer Cyril Hare. [1] It was the fourth novel in his series featuring Francis Pettigrew, a barrister and amateur detective . It also sees the return from his previous novel When the Wind Blows of the humourless police officer Trimble, now promoted to Superintendent .
Shabby Tiger is a British period television drama series which aired in seven parts on ITV in 1973. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1934 novel of the same title by Howard Spring . Selected cast
She posted a blog, which led to her creating YouTube videos in which she described her process of figuring out how to build things such as a planter, a light above a pool table, an outdoor pressurized air line between shops, a porch, a coffee table, an outdoor shower, a holiday decoration made from an old whiskey barrel, various art projects ...
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family ().
Mark Steel (born 4 July 1960) is an English author, broadcaster, stand-up comedian and newspaper columnist. [1] He has made many appearances on radio and television shows as a guest panellist, and has written regular columns in The Guardian, The Independent and Daily Mirror. [2]
Two Trees Make a Forest is a travel memoir by British Canadian author Jessica J. Lee. [1] In it she describes finding a trove of letters written by her grandfather, and how it leads her to travel to her mother's and grandfather's home of Taiwan .