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The Nightingale (2015) is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press.The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation there.
Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time, but the book was never published. [5] Hannah's best-selling work, The Nightingale, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages. [6] [7] Hannah lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, [8] with her husband and their son.
Nightingale was born in Los Angeles in March 1921. [4] His father, Earl Nightingale IV, abandoned his mother in 1933. After his father left, his mother relocated the family to a tent in nearby Tent City in Long Beach on the waterfront behind the Mariner Apartments. [5] Diana Nightingale is the widow of Earl Nightingale. [6]
The Owl and Nightingale is written in two columns with some capital letters in blue and red but no illumination. Cotton Caligula A.IX: This manuscript contains 13 texts in English and Anglo Norman, most of which were probably bound together from the beginning despite Cotton’s method of organizing disparate manuscripts into collections.
The earliest known text is a Broadside ballad titled "The nightingale's song: or The soldier's rare musick, and maid's recreation" published between 1689 and 1709 by W Onley of London, in the Bodleian Ballad Collection. [9] This text has a pious moral at the end which both later publishers and traditional singers dispensed with. [10] [11]
The nightingale's song within the poem is connected to the art of music in a way that the urn in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is connected to the art of sculpture. As such, the nightingale would represent an enchanting presence and, unlike the urn, is directly connected to nature. As natural music, the song is for beauty and lacks a message of truth.
"When the Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is the title of a short story by Michael Arlen, published in 1923 as part of his collection These Charming People. [3] According to Maschwitz, the title of the song was "stolen" from that of the story.
The Nightingale was written in April 1798 during the same time Coleridge wrote Fears in Solitude.During this time, France threatened to invade Britain; the belief held by many Britons was that France would invade the Irish kingdom, which was experiencing rebellion at the time. [1]