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The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews In Germany, 1743–1933 is a 2002 book by Israeli journalist and author Amos Elon. The book describes the history of the German Jews between the years 1743 and 1933. [1] The book's narrative focuses on the constant efforts of the German Jews to assimilate and become an integral part of their host country.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War [1] is a nonfiction book by the English journalist Robert Fisk. [2] [3] The book is an account of the Lebanese civil war 1975–1990 which Fisk lived through and reported on. It gives an insight into the machinations of the war and has many eyewitness accounts from the people Fisk interviewed and interacted with ...
Trump's self-pitying Mar-a-Lago appearance underscored the ex-president's disconnect from those he claims to represent and the needs of a nation he aspires to lead.
McElligot's Pool is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House in 1947. In the story, a boy named Marco, who first appeared in Geisel's 1937 book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, imagines a wide variety of fantastic fish that could be swimming in the pond in which he is fishing.
Writing for The New York Times, Richard Boston found Heroes and Villains to be "a strange, compelling book ... a fable that discusses the roles of reason and imagination in a civilized society." He reported it to be "an undoubted success," saying "Carter tells her story with considerable skill.
The Williams befriended Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley, and they all frequently met Lord Byron, who also lived in Pisa at that time. Shelley developed a very strong affection towards Jane Williams and addressed a number of poems to her. In most of these poems, Shelley projects his love for Jane in a spiritual and devotional manner.
Benjamin cites The Secret Garden, Harriet the Spy, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as shaping her reading life as a child. The Thing About Jellyfish was inspired in part by a trip Benjamin took to an aquarium, and influenced a novel she had been developing about a girl in middle school and her sibling.