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Book Synopsis One Hundred Years of Solitude by : Gabriel García Márquez
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Book Synopsis Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Westminster, Mass by : Charles Hudson
Download or read book Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Westminster, Mass written by Charles Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis One Hundred Years of Marriage by : Louise Farmer Smith
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Marriage written by Louise Farmer Smith and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The House After It was Leveled," the first story of this novel in stories, opens in Chisom, Oklahoma, in 1960 with Alice Brady, wife, mother, and good Methodist, collapsed under the weight of a severe depression. A lifetime of silence and suppressed anger has finally overcome this strong woman. This story is told from the point of view of Alice's nineteen-year-old daughter, Patricia, who has to piece together evidence from family lore and overheard conversations to understand why her parents, the short-fused Cecil Brady, and the conflict-phobic Alice, chose each other. At the end of this first story Patricia's twelve-year-old brother, Ernest, asks her to explain their parents' marriage. Ernest's question begins the pattern of this book which doesn't provoke the reader to ask what happens next so much as to ask, what happened in the past that overcame all good sense to influence the marriage decisions of the women in this family. Alice Brady's choice of a mate is dramatized in the next story," Woodpecker," set in Depression ravaged Oklahoma where Alice and Cecil, both college students working to help their financially strapped parents, meet and fall in love. In spite of her crushing disappointment in Cecil Brady, the result of a dinner with his graceless family, Alice sees him as a much better catch than her gentle, poetic, useless father. Alice's parents' marriage is illuminated in the third story, "The Investment in Lillian Gish," in which poverty calls for heart-breaking sacrifices not only from the parents, Victoria and Dan, but from eight-year-old Alice herself. Alice's mother Victoria had a choice of suitors, but, having lived under the weighty cloud of her own mother's hurried death, Victoria remains true to her mother's advice to "choose a man who will talk with you." She chose Dan, a well-read and affable man who was unable to support his family but who possessed the gentleness her own boorish and brutal father lacked. But why was Dan unwilling to teach school, the work for which he was educated? In the fourth story, "Return to Lincoln," Dan, an eleven-year-old only child, pioneering with his parents in Oklahoma Territory, discovers his manic-depressive, Quaker mother attempting to hang herself. These are Patricia's great grandparents on her grandfather's side, and the horror of young Dan's experience in witnessing his father chain up his mother for the long wagon journey back to an asylum in Nebraska, has rained down the generations. Patricia's great grandparents on her grandmother's side married in North Carolina in 1870 in the desperate aftermath of the Civil War. In "The Luckiest Little Thing in the World," Victoria tells the story of how her father, Gilbert, rescued her mother, a sixteen year old orphan. Gilbert, a high-roller, who is buying up the land of impoverished planters, marries the pretty girl and stops at nothing to ascend into Ashville society. In the last story, "The Dress," Patricia returns in 1970 to her hometown for her own wedding to a sweet jazz musician, who is very unlike her angry father, Cecil, and a little reminiscent in his careless lack of ambition of her grandfather, Dan. Soon after arriving at the church, Patricia realizes that she has left her wedding dress back at her parents' house. The arrival of a her beautiful younger sister, heavily made up to cover a black eye, accelerates Patricia's letting go of denial about her family. With a loving hand her mother hurries to prepare her for the ceremony. Her father, wearing his dress uniform, waits at the sanctuary door to see her down the aisle. The pressure to go through with the ceremony mounts as she faces the subconscious but determining forces that have compelled the marriage choices in her family.
Download or read book Pure Colour written by Sheila Heti and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award in Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.
Book Synopsis The All-or-Nothing Marriage by : Eli J. Finkel
Download or read book The All-or-Nothing Marriage written by Eli J. Finkel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “After years of debate and inquiry, the key to a great marriage remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras. Indeed, they are the best marriages the world has ever known. He presents his findings here for the first time in this lucid, inspiring guide to modern marital bliss. The All-or-Nothing Marriage reverse engineers fulfilling marriages—from the “traditional” to the utterly nontraditional—and shows how any marriage can be better. The primary function of marriage from 1620 to 1850 was food, shelter, and protection from violence; from 1850 to 1965, the purpose revolved around love and companionship. But today, a new kind of marriage has emerged, one oriented toward self-discover, self-esteem, and personal growth. Finkel combines cutting-edge scientific research with practical advice; he considers paths to better communication and responsiveness; he offers guidance on when to recalibrate our expectations; and he even introduces a set of must-try “lovehacks.” This is a book for the newlywed to the empty nester, for those thinking about getting married or remarried, and for anyone looking for illuminating advice that will make a real difference to getting the most out of marriage today.
Book Synopsis The Fight for Marriage by : Phillip F. Cramer
Download or read book The Fight for Marriage written by Phillip F. Cramer and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For leaders in governments and in churches, marriage equality is the most contentious civil-rights dispute in the 21st century. During an era where nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, same-gender couples now have the federal civil right to marry, too. At a time when 62 percent of Americans approve of same-gender marriage, according to June 2017 Pew Research, churches are having to come to terms with whether to recognize and affirm these faithful partnerships as sacred covenants. Attorneys Harbison and Cramer, faithful and active members of a United Methodist congregation, brought one of the cases to the US Supreme Court, which resulted in the 2015 landmark decision that permits persons of the same gender to marry. They bring a unique legal and cultural perspective to the controversy. For the three couples Harbison and Cramer represented, marriage is not an "issue" to be resolved. Marriage is rather a sign for these couples of their faithful promise to love each other until they depart this life. "Each couple married for several reasons, including their commitment to love and support one another, to demonstrate their mutual commitment to their family, friends, and colleagues, and to show others that they should be treated as a family. They also married to make a legally binding mutual commitment, to join their resources together in a legal unit, and to be treated by others as a legal family unit, rather than as legally unrelated individuals. Finally, each couple married so that they could access the legal responsibilities of marriage to protect themselves and their families, just as heterosexual couples do." Aleta A. Trauger, Federal Judge With a first-hand account of the respectful courtroom drama concerning marriage in American communities and states, Harbison and Cramer show why states care about marriage, why the church got involved in marriage more than a thousand years after Jesus's earthly ministry, and how the church and the state function in partnership to foster the purposes and social benefits of marriage. From the Faultlines collection, resources intended to inform conversations around human sexuality and the church.
Book Synopsis Roger Hooper and the Sheriff: Hoopers Island's First One Hundred Years by : Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg
Download or read book Roger Hooper and the Sheriff: Hoopers Island's First One Hundred Years written by Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the first 100 years of the settlement of Hoopers Island in Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Based on an event from January 1753, reported in the records of the Maryland Assembly, in which the sheriff charges tobacco planter Roger Hooper with unpaid quit-rents and threatens to seize two of Hooper's slaves. On a small scale, ROGER HOOPER AND THE SHERIFF is the story of one colonial tidewater family who settled on an island on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. On a larger canvas, through the story of this family, one can learn about the development of colonial Maryland--the difficulties the pioneers experienced, their relationship to the Indians, the importance of tobacco, the change to slave labor, the deterioriation of religious toleration, the role of women, and, finally, the economic changes that eventually isolated one side of the Bay from the other.
Book Synopsis One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life by : Michal Palgi
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life written by Michal Palgi and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life shows that the kibbutz thrives and describes changes that have occurred within Israel’s kibbutz community. The kibbutz population has increased in terms of demography and capital, a point frequently overlooked in debates regarding viability. Like the kibbutz founders who established a society grounded in certain principles and meeting certain goals, kibbutz newcomers seek to build an idealistic society with specific social and economic arrangements. The years 1909-2009 marked a century of kibbutz life—one hundred years of achievements, challenges, and creative changes. The impact of kibbutzim on Israeli society has been substantial but is now waning. While kibbutzim have become less relevant in Israeli policy and politics, they are increasingly engaged in questions of environmentalism, education, and profitable industries. Contributors discuss the hopes, goals, frustrations, and disappointments of the kibbutz movement. They also examine reform efforts intended to revitalize the institution and reinforce fading kibbutz ideals. Such solutions are not always popular among kibbutz members, but they demonstrate that the kibbutz is an adaptive and flexible social organization. The various studies presented in this book clarify the dynamism of the kibbutz institution and raises questions about the ways in which residential arrangements throughout the world manage change.
Book Synopsis George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago by : John S. C. Abbott
Download or read book George Washington; or, Life in America One Hundred Years Ago written by John S. C. Abbott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a riveting biography of the first president of the United States, from his early life as a surveyor and military leader to his role in the nation's founding as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and president of the Constitutional Convention. This comprehensive account offers readers a thorough understanding of Washington's legacy, from his enduring precedents as president to his lasting impact on American history and culture.
Book Synopsis One Hundred Years of Marriage by : Louise Farmer Smith
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Marriage written by Louise Farmer Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE by LOUISE FARMER SMITH "Note To Reader: What was your father thinking the night he proposed to your mother? Why did she say yes? By the time we ask, all the compelling details have cooled into whatever myths they've chosen to tell us. Our grandparents' stories are even more frozen, and the truths of our great-grandparents' unions have perished in the airless memories of the dead." In a series of interlocked stories Louise Farmer Smith, the author of ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE, pierces the myths through four generations of one American family's mismatched marriages-the teenage girl lifted out of the hunger and chaos that followed the Civil War; the suicidal wife isolated on the Oklahoma prairie; the struggling milliner bound to a cheerful husband whose improvidence is destroying the family. Dark? Yes, but full of humor too. Each of the six stories is told from the point of view of the child who observes his or her parent's marriage and tries with only a child's insufficient experience to interpret the veiled mysteries of their union. The novel moves backward in time to search out the influences on each generation's children-the standards, prejudices, and overheard conversations that they carry with them when they choose a spouse. With a Family Tree for the reader to refer to, Smith embeds a deep sense of family relationship throughout the generational stories while drawing each character as a vivid, unique individual. The mother in each new story is aware of the stories of her grandmother, usually in a mythologized form. Victoria, whose husband fed them only by selling off pieces of the beloved family homestead, causing her infinite suffering, is mythologized in future generations as the exemplary loving wife who stood by her man and not as the victim that another, truer history would make her. Victoria's own mother died, leaving her to be raised by a cold, remote, and stingy businessman who ultimately drove her into the arms of his opposite-the warm but hapless and improvident man. Why do women marry as they do? Louise Farmer Smith tells stories of marriages women make for survival, for emotional fulfillment, to satisfy a sense of duty or social expectation. All the women in this book marry with secrets and sacrifices at the hearts of their unions, bidding the reader to wonder about the nature of love and marriage. As one reader asked, "What about the role of women in marriage? Has the institution of marriage changed? If so, how? Do the readers think that these women acted as the products of their times, or in a universal way?" ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE can also be read as a pre-history of the women's movement and as a substantial addition to the social history of American women. Thoroughly researched stories compellingly paint daily life for Great Plains pioneers, for turn-of-the-century women fearing spinsterhood, and for wives in 40s, living in a feminine world the men have left for faraway war.
Book Synopsis Marriage of a Thousand Lies by : SJ Sindu
Download or read book Marriage of a Thousand Lies written by SJ Sindu and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What a gorgeous, heartbreaking novel.”—Roxane Gay A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel offers a moving and sharply rendered exploration of friendship, family, love, and loss. Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side. It’s not ideal, but for Lucky, it seems to be working. She goes out dancing, she drinks a bit, she makes ends meet by doing digital art on commission. But when Lucky’s grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her childhood home and unexpectedly reconnects with her former best friend and first lover, Nisha, who is preparing for her own arranged wedding with a man she’s never met. As the connection between the two women is rekindled, Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie. But does Nisha really want to be saved? And after a decade’s worth of lying, can Lucky break free of her own circumstances and build a new life? Is she willing to walk away from all that she values about her parents and community to live in a new truth? As Lucky—an outsider no matter what choices she makes—is pushed to the breaking point, Marriage of a Thousand Lies offers a vivid exploration of a life lived at a complex intersection of race, sexuality, and nationality. The result is a profoundly American debut novel shot through with humor and loss, a story of love, family, and the truths that define us all.
Book Synopsis A Marriage Book by : James P. Lenfestey
Download or read book A Marriage Book written by James P. Lenfestey and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These tender, sly, plainspoken poems are a profound (and sexy) hymn to a long marriage.” —Chase Twichell, author of Things As It Is Writing love poems fifty years into a marriage is no easy task: “If he exaggerates his love, she’ll know . . . And if his desire for her is undiminished, / who would believe?” But in A Marriage Book, James P. Lenfestey meets his own challenge with aplomb. These poems drop readers into the rich, textured world of one couple’s enduring intimacy, from the warmth of a bedroom occupied by two to squabbles over miscommunications and crumbs in the kitchen. As the marriage (and the poems) transition into parenthood, Lenfestey illuminates the equally stalwart wonder of observing one’s children as they age and develop. Paternal love persists, and is even fed by, watching his children argue, suffer their own mistakes, and roar horrible breath at breakfast. A Marriage Book is a collection that essences the magic from the household quotidian, creating a technicolor portrait of a durable, long-lasting love and a vibrant, dynamic family. “James Lenfestey, after a lifetime of attentive writing, has lately done poems for family and marriage that put most of us to shame.” —Gary Snyder, TheNew York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis One Hundred Years' History Of The Chinese In Singapore: The Annotated Edition by : Ong Siang Song
Download or read book One Hundred Years' History Of The Chinese In Singapore: The Annotated Edition written by Ong Siang Song and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1923, Sir Song Ong Siang's One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore has become the standard biographical reference of prominent Chinese in early Singapore, at least in the English language. This fact would have surprised Song who saw himself primarily as a compiler of historical and biographical snippets. The original was not referenced in academic fashion and contained a number of errors. This annotation by the Singapore Heritage Society takes Song's classic text and updates it with detailed annotations of sources that Song himself might have consulted, and includes more recent scholarship on the lives and times of various personalities who are mentioned in the original book. This annotated edition is commissioned by the National Library Board, Singapore and co-published with World Scientific Publishing.
Book Synopsis Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude by : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Download or read book Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays about Marquez's, "One hundred years of solitude."
Book Synopsis One Hundred I Wills After You Say I Do by : Lissa Noel
Download or read book One Hundred I Wills After You Say I Do written by Lissa Noel and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Hundred "I Wills" After You Say "I Do" offers timeless wisdom to help your marriage grow and thrive with easily read and implemented, straight-to-the-point lessons. With sections on the basics, communication, and intimacy, this resource will teach you how to practice intentional actions to build a lifelong strong, and healthy marriage.
Book Synopsis St Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford by : Penny Griffin
Download or read book St Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford written by Penny Griffin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patriot and Tory. One Hundred Years Ago by : Julia McNair Wright
Download or read book Patriot and Tory. One Hundred Years Ago written by Julia McNair Wright and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
