As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted-and often permanently altered-global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. In this gripping narrative history, Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind's vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. But despite a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people, it exists in our memory as an afterthought to World War I. It infected a third of the people on Earth-from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi and Woodrow Wilson. The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus-one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth century.
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Chapter 9: “They Fight the Invisible Bears”ĭorothy and her friends learn how to walk on water. Chapter 8: “The Valley of Voices”ĭorothy and the gang come upon invisible people and animals that live there. With their lantern, Dorothy and friends follow a long, steep tunnel inside the pit. Chapter 7: “Into the Black Pit and Out Again” The vegetable people don’t want “meat people” around and drive the group towards a pit despite the Wizard’s magic tricks. Chapter 6: “The Mangaboos Prove Dangerous” The evil prince has delayed picking the overripe princess, so Dorothy does when he’s asleep. They have to be replanted every five years. The friends discover the little people are actually vegetables that grow from plants. The arrival of the great Wizard to the palace. Chapter 2: “The Glass City”ĭorothy and her friends fall softly onto a flat glass roof, discover they can walk on air and that no little person there smiles or talks. “The Earthquake”ĭorothy, her cousin Zeb, her kitten, the horse and buggy fall through a crack, which is quite scary, but the animals begin to talk. The author tells the readers about the origin of this story and his process. This is one of only two of the original forty Oz books (with The Emerald City of Oz) to be illustrated with watercolor paintings.īaum, F. It was published in 1908 and reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz (though most of the action is outside of it) written by L. Besides the insertion of Miss Marple, the adaptation diverges from the original in many ways. The Secret of Chimneys was not originally a Miss Marple book. (may contain spoilers - click on expand to read) There are several suspects and another member of the household will die before Miss Marple solves the crime. Lord Caterham's eldest daughter Bundle is dead set set against the idea but it all takes a very serious turn when the Count is found murdered. Everyone is surprised when Count von Stainach says that in addition to signing the trade agreement, he also wants to purchase Chimneys. Except for a maid who disappeared with a valuable diamond in the 1920s, not much of note has happened there for a long time. Chimneys was once the 'in' place to be for a fancy weekend but over many years, it has become somewhat run-down. The weekend has something of a diplomatic air to it as the Austrian Count Ludwig von Stainach is also there to negotiate a trade agreement with the British that will give it access to iron ore. Miss Marple finds herself spending the weekend at Chimneys, the stately home of Lord Caterham whose late wife was her cousin. His killer was never identified, nor has his family, in the years since, recovered from the tragedy.įor Harriet, who has grown up largely unsupervised, in a world of her own imagination, her brother is a link to a glorious past she has only heard stories about or glimpsed in photograph albums. In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, whowhen she was only a babywas found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard. The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret Historya best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant. Jackson’s transgression is somehow not the main focus of the movie, though openly gay quarterback Caleb ( Burkely Duffield) does score a touchdown while everyone else looks at their phones. That game, its audience, and the movie all stop dead in their tracks when everybody receives a mysterious text message with a video clip of Jackson and his buddies’ crime. Most of Osborne attends the game that Jackson should be playing in when he’s punished (to death) for a hazing ritual gone awry. Jackson’s small town is Osborne, Kansas, where the locals enjoy the local high school’s football games with the same generic passion that they have for the town’s annual Halloween corn maze. On the strength of that short, producers James L. Anderson debuted with Bottle Rocket, a thirteen-minute video shown at Sundance. But it’s become such an influence on other homegrown auteurs that it’s beginning to look as archetypally American as apple pie. independent film landscape at the outset of his career. Houston native Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic directorial style-marked by eccentric, colorful compositions and a fastidious attention to detail-seemed completely anomalous in the U.S. PLUS: An essay by critic Erica Wagner and a 2002 article on Dahl’s Gipsy House by Anderson White Cape, a comic book used as a prop in the film and drawings, original paintings, and other ephemera.English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.Stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson.Dahl, an hour-long 2005 documentary about the author Audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based. Photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets.Footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop-motion setups, and the recording of the score.Storyboard animatic for the entire film.Digital master, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman-a former slave herself, one of the village’s wisest women and Elizabeth’s closest friend. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides-one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk-and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.Īfter a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeth’s school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past-and in the life of the spirited Bonners-as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. The money is needed to travel to Varanasi so that he can bathe in the healing waters of the Ganges, along with thousands of others. She soon learns that she was married to Hari only for her dowry. I nearly pulled my own hand away, but he was hanging on to it hard, as if it were keeping him from falling over." Hari is dying of a virulent strain of tuberculosis and her Sass and Sassur, mother-in-law and father-in-law, are disdainful and indifferent to her in light of this. When the priest joins Koly's hand with Hari's during the wedding ceremony, she says, "it was hot and sweaty. When she finally sees him for the first time during their wedding ceremony she is stunned to see that he is her age, perhaps even younger, not older as her parents had been told when the arrangements were being made. Inauspicious signs are evident as Koly and her Maa and Baap arrive in the village where her groom, Hari lives with his parents and where the wedding is to be held. Nel waited on the porch of 7 Carpenter’s Road while Sula ran into the house to go to the toilet. They decided to go down by the river where the boys sometimes swam. In that mercury mood in July, Sula and Nel wandered about the Bottom barefoot looking for mischief. It was in that summer, the summer of their twelfth year, the summer of the beautiful black boys, that they became skittish, frightened and bold - all at the same time. Even their footsteps left a smell of smoke behind. The beautiful, beautiful boys who dotted the landscape like jewels, split the air with their shouts in the field, and thickened the river with their shining wet backs. Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. Excerpts selected by the Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy. He fears and flouts the dominance of the many, and his heroes, who are nothing but slightly varied images of himself, are invariably marked by an originality of speech and action that brings them close to, if not across, the borderline of the eccentric. Instead, he must be classed as an individualistic romanticist and a highly subjective aristocrat, whose foremost passion in life is violent, defiant deviation from everything average and ordinary. Hearing of it, one might expect him to prove a man of the masses, full of keen social consciousness. The enthusiasm of this approval is a characteristic symptom that throws interesting light on Russia as well as on Hamsun. It spread long ago over the rest of Europe, taking deepest roots in Russia, where several editions of his collected works have already appeared, and where he is spoken of as the equal of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski. His reputation is not confined to his own country or the two Scandinavian sister nations. Both these, however, seem to have less than he of that width of outlook, validity of interpretation and authority of tone that made the greater masters what they were. Those approaching most nearly to his position are probably Selma Lagerlöf in Sweden and Henrik Pontoppidan in Denmark. Since the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly the foremost creative writer of the Scandinavian countries. |