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Following this she speaks about a similar gruelling experience of finding out her pregnancy and the consequences such as hiding it from her parents and public, searching for a doctor who would illegally abort the child, revealing pregnancy to some close ones for help in abortion and the horror of abortion itself, which is the rest of the book.
[1] [2] His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. [3] [4] He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". [5] Dahl was born in Wales to affluent Norwegian immigrant parents, and lived for most of his life in England. He served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.
A Woman's Story (Une femme), A Man's Place, and Simple Passion were recognised as The New York Times Notable Books, [21] and A Woman's Story was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. [22] Shame was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, [ 23 ] I Remain in Darkness a Top Memoir of 1999 by The Washington Post , and The Possession ...
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Leonard Oswald Mosley OBE OStJ (11 February 1913 – June 1992) [1] was a British journalist, historian, biographer and novelist. His works include five novels and biographies of General George Marshall, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Orde Wingate, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh, Du Pont family, Eleanor Dulles, Allen Welsh Dulles, John Foster Dulles and Darryl F. Zanuck.
Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is most known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist and for her intervention in Chicana feminism known as Xicanisma.
George Orwell, whose political beliefs were very different from Deeping's, dismissed him as being among the 'huge tribe' of writers who 'simply don't notice what is happening'. [9] Graham Greene also criticized Deeping's work; in his book Journey Without Maps Greene includes Deeping's novels on a list of books "written without truth, without ...
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World is a book written by James Burnham in 1941. It discusses the rise of managers and technocrats in modern industrial societies , arguing that they would replace the traditional capitalist class as the rulers of the economic system, through mechanisms such as economic planning .