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There was once a king known for his ravenous desire and destructive passion. ![]() ![]() Deeply unhappy, she turns for friendship to Daniel, only to discover his involvement with Mirah Lapidoth, a talented young Jewish woman. Although the two are immediately drawn to one another, Gwendolen, outwardly alluring and vivacious, inwardly complex and unsettled, is forced by circumstance into an oppressive marriage with the harsh aristocratic Henleigh Grandcourt. ![]() The story opens memorably at a roulette table, where we first meet the young and idealistic Daniel Deronda and the enchanting Gwendolen Harleth, whom many critics consider to be George Eliot's finest creation. What begins as a passionate love story takes a surprising turn into the hidden world of the early Zionist movement in Victorian England. George Eliot's last, most ambitious novel, Daniel Deronda aroused scandal when it first appeared in 1876. The present text follows the third, or Cabinet, edition of 1878"-Title page verso ![]() "Daniel Deronda was published in eight parts in 1876. ![]() ![]() It’s interesting to read this book with all the modern revelations about Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood sex abusers. ![]() The heart-breaking tale of Pepi Lederer, Marion Davies’ brilliant but constantly overshadowed niece is one example of Hollywood’s cruelty to those it considers “failures.” Brooks watches the destruction of many starlets and stars close up, including herself. But Brooks also has a keen and unforgiving eye for weakness, and her depictions of Humphrey Bogart, William Randolph Hearst, and Marion Davies will feel honest, clear, and cold. ![]() ![]() Her reverence for the great artists of her time makes the book sing with vivid memories of luminaries such as Charlie Chaplin, with whom she had a lovely three month long affair, to Martha Graham, whom she danced with in the Denishawn Dance Company. Yet, Brook’s prose brings to life the people she knew and the places she visited, from their deepest, darkest flaws to their greatest triumphs. ![]() In fact, it includes an essay Louise wrote called “Why I Will Never Write My Memoirs.” It’s more of a collection of Louise’s writings about films and the people who made them, from Greta Garbo and Lillian Gish to W.C. The book isn’t a traditional autobiography by any means. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that isn’t the true beginning of the story. The rush of turning a page and a story beginning. The Ten Thousand Doors of January starts, as great tales often do, with a book. ![]() When one enters a door, one must be brave enough to see the other side. Even the morning’s clarity couldn’t snatch that away. The sensible part of me informed me, patiently, that none of it had any more bearing on real life than a dream, yet in the surreal fuzziness of the night, I felt-on a bone-deep, irrational level-the possibility that I might turn a key, open a door and unlock the mysteries of the world. ![]() It seemed hardly credible when I finished reading that I couldn’t follow the words back to a world where this wasn’t mere fiction. ![]() The Ten Thousand Doors of January is almost less a novel than an experience: never have I felt more like I was part of things, moved by the same current, like my soul had disconnected from my body and drifted among fictional souls in a mist somewhere between fantasy and reality. I felt that to speak of this book would be to contain what it did to me, to diminish it somehow. ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Monica Ali: Granta's 2003 Best of Young British Brick Lane was a Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, Filth, Porno Tony Hawks: Round Ireland with a Fridge, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, One Hit Wonderland Victoria Glendinning: biographies of Anthony Trollope, Vita Sackville-West and Rebecca West and novels, The Grown Ups, Electricity, Flight Jenny Colgan: best-selling chick-lit novelist including Amanda's Wedding and Looking For Andrew McCarthy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Hear Ilana Simons read his version of that story in her short animated film above). Then he suddenly became a novelist after an epiphany at a baseball game. Murakami became a convert to jazz fandom at the age of 15 and until age 30 ran a jazz club. Murakami, who is well known for his intense focus and heroic achievements as a marathon and double-marathon runner, exceeds even this consuming passion with his near-religious devotion to music. When it comes to hip, prolific modern novelist Haruki Murakami, we might say the author himself may not exist without his soundtracks, and they are sprawling and extensive. It might even be said many such books would not exist without their internal soundtracks. Music and writing are inseparable in the hippest modern novels, from Kerouac to Nick Hornby to Irvine Welsh. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moore includes a syllabus and other tools for actionable steps that white people can take to move beyond performative justice and toward racial reparations, healing, and reconciliation. He poses provocative questions, such as “Why is the teaching of Black history so controversial?” and “What came first: slavery or racism?” These questions don’t have easy answers, and Moore insists that embracing discomfort is necessary for engaging in open and honest conversations about race. With Teaching Black History to White People, which is “part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to guide,” Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the Black experience in America. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone. ![]() Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the Black experience in America. Paperback Description: Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. ![]() ![]() In 1943 the family were separated, his father sent to Auschwitz and Blik, along with his sister and pregnant mother, sent to Bergen Belsen - a concentration camp - where he witnessed unimaginable horrors. 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