![]() Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. “Piano Between” and “Drums from the Deep” by Kevin MacLeod () ![]() ![]() “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA). You can follow Jacke Wilson at his Twitter account You can also follow Mike and the Literature Supporters Club (and receive daily book recommendations) by looking for Credits: You can find more literary discussion at and more episodes of the series at .Ĭheck out our Facebook page at /historyofliterature. Act now while supplies last!Ĭontact the host at or by leaving a voicemail at 1-361-4WILSON (1-36). Write a review on iTunes (or another site), then send us an email at to receive your free History of Literature postcard as a thank you gift. How did this son of a barely literate coal miner end up one of the most prolific and sensational writers ever to have lived? What fueled his passions? How did he channel his highly imaginative world views into his novels? And what are we to make of him today? Host Jacke Wilson takes a look at the man who called himself a “savage pilgrim.” ![]() His novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and The Rainbow are commonly regarded as some of the greatest novels in literature – and for Lawrence, who also wrote eight other novels, ten collections of short stories, and 800 poems, they were only a fraction of his volcanic outpouring of words and ideas. Lawrence (1885-1930) lived and wrote with the fury of a thousand suns. ![]()
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It was not usual for farmers' children to attend school, let alone a seminary, but for Frank this was the chance of a lifetime.Īfter attending the seminary school for three years and passing some difficult exams, Frank earned acceptance to the prestigious Instituto Technico Industriale Montani in Fermo, Italy. Wanting an education for their only son (Frank’s brother Natalino died as an infant) Arduino and Yolanda scraped together their meager savings and along with help from Uncle Antonio in America, they were able to send Frank to the seminary school in nearby Cagli. They lived a simple but happy life as small farmers. As a boy he worked in the nearby fields of San Savino with his parents Iolanda and Arduino Roselli. Frank lived an amazing and storied life that started with humble beginnings as the son of farmers in Italy then saw him emigrate to America where he became a famous chemist.įrank “Francesco” was born in the summer of 1934 in Colombara, Italy a small suburb of the village of Frontone in Le Marche region of central Italy. ![]() Frank Roselli was called to be with God and passed away peacefully on April 6, 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is currently working on a project that maps the movement of news in early modern Britain and its empire. His most recent book, Eating the Empire (2020), investigates how food from around the world shaped British culture in the eighteenth century. ![]() He is the author of four books: Savages within the Empire (2005), which explores how encounters with Native Americans affected British culture in the eighteenth century Making Headlines (2008), which examines British engagement with the American Revolution via the British newspaper press and The Weight of Vengeance (2012), which is a transatlantic study of the Anglo-American War of 1812. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He teaches broadly in the histories of Britain and its empire, the Atlantic world, and British colonial North America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early-nineteenth centuries. Having joined Texas A&M in 2003, he served in various roles at the university’s campus in Qatar from 2009-19, before returning to the Department of History. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. As Troy Bickham argues for the eighteenth century: products of empire. Troy Bickham is a Professor of History and Director of the Melbern G. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a 2018 interview with Edward Clifford for The Massachusetts Review, Kaminsky described writing in his second language as “a parallel reality, an insanely beautiful freedom.” “There is a beauty in falling in love with a language - the strangeness of its sounds, the awe of watching the sea-surf of a new syntax beating again and again the cement of your unknowing,” he told Clifford. ![]() After the death of his father one year later, Kaminsky began writing poems in English - a language he has never clearly heard. Escaping religious persecution, his family immigrated to the United States when they were granted political asylum in 1993. The author of the Dorset Prize-winning book Dancing In Odessa, Kaminsky grew up in the former Soviet Union and lost most of his hearing at the age of 4. Is it an act of defiance? Is it the only way to live, as a way of life collapses? The book’s cardinal, double-edged metaphor is this: After an occupying soldier executes a deaf boy at a protest, the entire country is rendered deaf. “We Lived Happily during the War,” a narrator admits in the title of the opening poem, the first of poet Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grant insisted she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater. One recounts the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Her anecdotes give fascinating glimpses into the years of the American Civil War. In addition to relating the joys she experienced, Grant tells about the difficult and sorrowful times. ![]() Louis County, Missouri, where she had an idyllic girlhood and later met Ulysses. She writes fondly of White Haven, a plantation in St. First Lady Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. ![]() ![]() When the revelation of a stunning family secret places Marlie's freedom on the line, she and Ewan have to run for their lives into the hostile Carolina night. Seemingly a quiet philosopher, Ewan has his own history with the cruel captain of the Home Guard, and a thoughtful but unbending strength Marlie finds irresistible. Unbeknownst to those under her roof, escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in her laboratory. Her formerly enslaved mother's traditions and the name of a white father she never knew have protected her-until the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their new base of operations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is fantastic." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)īuzzfeed's The Ultimate Buzzfeed Books Gift Guideīookish "Autumn 2017's Most Swoon-Worthy Romance Books" Listįor all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods, tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners, and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. Her historical research is absorbing, and her characters are achingly human. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now it also promises a second chance for Jack, a return to normalcy after a young life filled with loss. Safe from viruses that have plagued America for years, Kingfisher offers a respite for wealthy clients. Sandwiched between barbed wire and a meadow with a sign that reads “Don’t Get Shot!” the resort boasts boutique fishing at its finest. Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as “Billionaire’s Mile” and is locked behind a heavy gate. ![]() The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he consistently miscalculates in his attempts to destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomes a far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in "talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs", and "sad stories of the death of kings". Richard II begins with a portrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regarding sovereign, with little sense of his people or his political responsibilities. ![]() But the play has been celebrated above and beyond its stature as historical drama. ![]() Forerunner to the two parts of Henry IV, the play deals with the abdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in the spring of 1400. One of Shakespeare's finest history plays, Richard II deals with one of the most sensitive and politically explosive issues of its day-the rights and wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. ![]() |