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The Pastures of Heaven is a short story cycle by John Steinbeck published by Brewer, Warren and Putnam in 1932. [ 1 ] This episodic collection is composed of ten self-contained but related stories set in the Corral de Tierra of the Salinas Valley of California.
To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933. [1] The book was Steinbeck's second novel (after Cup of Gold).Steinbeck found To a God Unknown extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, the novel proved more time-consuming than either East of Eden or The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's longest novels.
After a few months, he decided to write a formal explanation, in an open letter to Caspar Muller, entitled An Open Letter on the Harsh Book Against the Peasants. He defends his previous writings, and states that it is the duty of a Christian to "suffer injustice, not to seize the sword and take to violence". [ 12 ]
It is now accepted that it was a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, with many passages in that book being used again. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The title comes from the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible : "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman , let him declare what he seeth" (Chapter 21, Verse 6), [ 5 ] which is quoted in the ...
Henbit may refer to: Any of several plant species with the common name "henbit": Lamium amplexicaule, wild flower known as henbit dead-nettle, common henbit, or greater henbit; Lamium album, white henbit or archangel; Lamium confertum, garden henbit; Lamium galeobdolon, yellow henbit or yellow archangel; Lamium maculatum, spotted henbit
The novel is divided into 5 volumes, each divided into several books and subdivided into chapters, for a total of 48 books and 365 chapters. Each chapter is relatively short, commonly no longer than a few pages. The novel as a whole is one of the longest ever written, [9] with 655,478 words in the original French.
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society is a book by Dave Grossman exploring the psychology of the act of killing and the military law enforcement establishments attempt to understand and deal with the consequences of killing. The book is based on S.L.A. Marshall's theory that the majority of soldiers in war do ...
A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. [1] It was published in 2014 by Riverhead Books. [2] The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and its aftermath, through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s, and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s.