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One month after her novel “Gone with the Wind” was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars. Fearful of what the studio might do to her story, "I wouldn't put it beyond Hollywood to have...Scarlett seduce General Sherman," she joked, the author washed her hands of involvement with the film. However, driven by a maternal interest in her literary firstborn and compelled by her Southern manners to answer every...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Scarlet Letter with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The "scarlet letter" of the title is the letter "A", which the protagonist Hester Prynne must wear as punishment for having committed adultery. However, Hester's virtuous behavior throughout the narrative makes clear, the line between guilt and innocence...
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Thirty years of silver blades, scarlet stains and the most elegant of heels.
Thirty years of slipping in the knife, tightening the noose, measuring out the poison.
Thirty years of whispered threats and tangled plots, of murder and mayhem.
For thirty years, the annual Scarlet Stiletto women's crime and mystery short story competition-run by Sisters in Crime Australia-has uncovered dreadful deeds, righteous revenge, deadly high-jinks and wicked shenanigans,...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Officers' Ward with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Officers' Ward by Marc Dugain, a novel which tells the story of one soldier's brief experience of the First World War and the scars it leaves him with. After his face is horribly disfigured at the beginning of the war, Adrien Fournier is transferred to a military hospital, where he remains...
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"Anarchists have much to learn from Indigenous struggles for decolonization. [A] thought-provoking collection" Lesley J. Wood, Professor, York University, Toronto
"Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle" Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University
As early as the end of the nineteenth century, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus became interested...