Though much of De Profundis is a reflection on his life before prison, Wilde weaves in commentary on his mental suffering in being separated from all he held dear. As “a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of age,” 2 Wilde could not allow his mental trials to pass without seeking a new self from the ashes of his grief. Perhaps most striking is how the letter serves as a prose rhapsody on the nature of mental anguish – an individual reflection on the intersection of physical and psychological suffering. Finally granted permission to write, over a period of three months he produced De Profundis, an eclectic document that ranges from a narrative of his imprisonment to philosophical discourse. Imprisoned for a relationship that was criminalized by the government of his time, in 1897 Oscar Wilde had spent two years in jail. “There is only one season, the season of sorrow.” 1 De Profundis: Oscar Wilde’s narrative of mental anguish February 7, 2022
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For example, a business may compare cash to total assets in the current year. Vertical analysis shows a comparison of a line item within a statement to another line item within that same statement. Using Mistborn Trading (MT) as our example, if MT wanted to compare Revenue in the current year (year of analysis) of $120,000 to the prior year (base year) of $100,000, the dollar change would be as follows:ĭollar change = $120,000 – $100,000 = $20,000 The dollar change is found by taking the dollar amount in the base year and subtracting that from the year of analysis. The year of comparison for horizontal analysis is analysed for dollar and percent changes against the base year. The year being used for comparison purposes is called the base year (usually the prior period). If multiple periods are not used, it can be difficult to identify a trend. It is most valuable to do horizontal analysis for information over multiple periods to see how change is occurring for each line item. The trending of items on these financial statements can give a business valuable information on overall performance and specific areas for improvement. For example, a business may compare sales from their current year to sales from the prior year. A business will look at one period (usually a year) and compare it to another period. Horizontal analysis (also known as trend analysis) looks at trends over time on various financial statement line items. Newly motivated, Jonathan takes the few clues he has, including a photo of his grandfather with a mysterious woman and the aforementioned necklace, and heads for his grandfather's birthplace in Ukraine to find out more about him and the woman in the picture. When his grandmother passes away, it sparks memories of the necklace (complete with an amber incased insect) Jonathan took from his holocaust survivor grandfather's deathbed. Jonathan seems to have an especially big interest in his own family history, having created a shrine like display of his ziplocked collectibles devoted to his family and pinning them to his wall. An obsessive collector, he's constantly picking up items that cross his path, and sealing them in ziplock bags. Always wearing huge glasses and seemingly owning no clothes except suits, Jonathan is extremely quiet and mannered. Elijah Wood stars as Jonathan, a young Jewish American, who we quickly learn is a rather odd fellow. “But at the same time, you want it to be a true depiction of who they are so that people watching it go, ‘Oh, OK…’ Aaron’s really gone in there, he’s done them proud, but at the same time he has been very true to their spirits… They’re compelling, fascinating… people and at the same time-they are human.” “That is something that Javier and I want to honor,” she said. In an interview with Extra in December 2021, Kidman opened up about why she wanted to play Ball. The film was written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. After the success of the tour, CBS greenlit I Love Lucy, which went on to run for more than 100 episodes and be one of the most-watched shows in TV history.īall and Arnaz’s marriage was portrayed in the 2021 movie Being the Ricardos, in which Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem starred as the couple. Unimpressed by the pilot episode, CBS turned down a show with Ball and Arnaz, which led them to hit the road as a vaudeville act in which Ball played a zany housewife who tried to get into her husband’s show. After the success of My Favorite Husband, Ball was asked by CBS to develop it for television, which she agreed if she could work with her real-life husband, Arnaz. In 1948, Ball was cast as Liz Cooper, a wacky wife in the CBS Radio comedy show, My Favorite Husband. A Concord variant is THUR-eau, like the English word "thorough." In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called "my most prominent feature". He had two older siblings, Helen and John Jr, and a younger sister Sophia.īronson Alcott notes in his Journal that Thoreau pronounced his family name THOR-eau, stress on the first syllable, not the last, a common error today. He didn't change his name to "Henry David" until he had graduated from Harvard, although he never petitioned the government to do so officially. He was named after a recently deceased paternal Uncle, David Thoreau. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.ĭavid Henry Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, to John and Cynthia Thoreau. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817- born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Civil Disobedience, on resistance to civil government and among 22 other books that Thoreau published. For the women who loved Hemingway, there was no “happily ever after”. While it is a love story, it is no romance novel. Love and Ruin is a novelization of Martha Gelhorn’s life from January 1936 to June 1944. Paula McLain, who combines extensive research with magical story-telling, was drawn to capturing their story. His third wife, Martha Gelhorn, was an acclaimed war correspondent and author. But Hadley was only the first of Hemingway’s four wives. The Paris Wife was her luminous, bestselling historical fiction novel based on the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson, and Paula felt she was done writing about Hemingway. Paula McLain, Cleveland author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun, never expected to write this new novel. Love and Ruin by Paula McLain Knowing the ending doesn’t spoil this new novel at all. We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings The open ending leaves Sage's short-term fate (and Clea's eternal one) for later books. Clea is a likable though unmemorable heroine, and the writing is passable but never exceptional. Two groups desperate for the elixir are pursuing Sage, and tensions (and the love triangle) heat up as enemies close in. Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, pop singer-songwriter and entrepreneur. Clea and Ben meet the stranger, Sage, in Brazil, and all three head to Japan, following in the footsteps of Clea's father. When she shows the photographs to her cute friend/bodyguard-of-sorts, Ben, he reveals that this stranger has been appearing in family photos since she was a baby. But when a sexy stranger starts appearing in her photos, Clea is suddenly barraged by dreams of past lives, loving this same man in each one. Clea is recovering from her surgeon/humanitarian father's disappearance and presumed death a year ago, after he funded a dig for ancient vials of the elixir of life in Brazil. Disney and pop star Duff's first novel is a largely predictable paranormal love story, breathlessly narrated by Clea, a homeschooled senior and photojournalist, who travels the world on photo shoots. Elixir Part of Elixir By Hilary Duff Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 12. "Swampland", from Mutiny, in particular, uses the same linguistic stylings ('mah' for 'my', for instance) and some of the same themes (the narrator being haunted by the memory of a girl called Lucy, being hunted like an animal, approaching death and execution). Significant crossover is evident between the themes in the book and the lyrics Cave wrote in the late stages of the Birthday Party and the early stage of his solo career. While he was based in West Berlin, Cave started working on what was to become his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). It is a collection of lyrics and plays, including collaborations with American enfant terrible Lydia Lunch. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove in England.Ĭave released his first book King Ink, in 1988. His music is characterised by intensity, high energy and a wide variety of influences. He has a reputation, which he disowns, for singing dark, brooding songs which some listeners regard as depressing. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his fascination with American music and its roots. Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption.As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. That night she begins her sold-out reading in Cologne with a few words of consolation for the loss of the ar-chive. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. Michaels is deeply affected as she learns the details of the destruction of Germany’s largest municipal archive. “SUMMARY: A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. The Draev Guardian Academy is their only sanctuary. Until a new power suddenly awakens, changing the course of his life… But when the forbidden power to manipulate metal awakens inside her, she finds herself on the run as the Argos Corps is sent to kill her…Īken is a Scourgeblood, the last in a line of monsters. But all he really wants is to gain wings and be free. She’s only half-human, with weak wrists, and not a day goes by when someone doesn’t say something mean about it-especially her step-mom. Rawls! What’s this new book about?Ĭyrus Sole hates life. Rawls in the virtual flesh! What’s coming up in this article: an interview with the author, all about the book, and a giveaway! Available now is Strayborn by E. This is the first in a series that even a young YA reader can enjoy and grow with, much like fans of Percy Jackson or Harry Potter did! Make sure you get a copy too! Links below.īut before we get to that, let me share more about the book and introduce you to E. Rawls on the publication of her debut YA Fantasy novel. |