You can reserve copies of these books online at South Dublin Libraries’ catalogue here. The writer gives us a good picture of what life and society was like in Britain and at the front during the conflict, mainly through the experiences of Prior. The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barkers sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. Rivers comes across as empathetic towards his patients, contrasting with the attitudes and treatment of other medical staff at the time though it should be remembered that the soldiers involved were officers I wonder how private men suffering from war trauma fared. Available in National Library (Singapore). In the later section “The Ghost Road” we learn of his experiences on an Anthropological expedition to the Torres straits twenty years before. Rivers is based on a pioneering psychiatrist and anthropologist of the same name. The opening novel is set in Craiglockhart Hospital which served as a psychiatric facility for war casualties in reality, and another of the principal characters, W.H.R. 1 It is the first of three novels in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. Several of the characters are based on historical figures such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, famous war-poets but the series centers on Billy Prior, a fictional working class officer. Regeneration is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. These three inter-related historical novels are set during the First World War and deal mainly with the treatment of soldiers suffering from the effect of shell shock.
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In 1728, Franklin began operating a successful printing business and publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette. In late 1724, he took his first transatlantic trip (out of eight during his lifetime), and he spent most of the next two years learning the printing trade in London. After several fallings out with his brother, Franklin slipped away to Philadelphia in 1723. The precocious apprentice’s first publication was a broadside ballad on the capture of Blackbeard, but his first lasting literary creation, the character of a Puritan widow turned author named Silence Dogood, appeared in a series of letters surreptitiously submitted to his brother’s newspaper, The New England Courant, in 1722. He was apprenticed to his brother James, a printer. Benjamin Franklin (b. 1706–d. 1790) was born and raised in colonial Boston, Massachusetts, in the waning years of Puritan hegemony. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Angry arthur by hiawyn oramAt the very start of the book the author explains what makes Arthur so angry. This book is - as the title says - about a boy called Arthur, who is angry. The title pulled my interest and the cover image jumped out at me. When I picked this book up, it was purely out of curiosity. But I feel confident I won’t soon forget this one! I can’t say I have ever felt so angry that this story feels especially relatable to me. I have to wonder in what kind of mood a child would find themselves upon finishing this book. There is no ‘still hot’ dinner waiting a return from this fantastical expression of anger. Ultimately Arthur is left adrift in space left to deal with the consequences of his anger without remembering what set him off in the first place. The illustrations depict a satisfyingly detailed sublime chaos a personal highlight for me being a moment when objects and pieces of places stretch distorted across the page, as if they’re being sucked into a black hole. Picked up this book while my girlfriend was digging through her childhood picture books in storage and I was struck by the shockingly bleak ending-one that surely would not fly in many contemporary picture books! In the course of the story Arthur gets so angry and is so intent on anger (despite warnings) that he destroys his house, city, country, planet, and eventually, the entire universe in a flurry of psychic rage. |