![]() ![]() There's one argument in favour of the return to (up to) 10 nominees for the big prize! I digress, though The Miracle Worker is a fine film and may well have cast the die for future "inspirational caregiver, teacher, etc." films. The miracle worker by Gibson, William, 1914-2008. Lawrence of Arabia (winner), To Kill a Mockingbird, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Music Man and The Longest Day got that nomination, which means that other great films like The Manchurian Candidate, Days of Wine and Roses, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Birdman of Alcatraz also didn't get the nod. given that it's largely a two-hander of a script, it kind of makes you wonder how it wasn't nominated for Best Picture, too, but 1962 was a deep year. ![]() Definitely see it once, it's a classic, winner of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscars. Stark and powerful, even if it slows into a somewhat repetitive groove after a while. It struck me as unusual for a film of its era to start SO in media res, with the stakes already so high and the parents already so distraught, but it's for the better. An edition of The Miracle Worker (1956) The miracle worker a play in three acts 1st Scribner trade pbk. Intense from the get-go, in both style and acting still cinematographically modern in a lot of ways and dominated by a fiery performance by Anne Bancroft. The Miracle Worker demonstrates the true miracle of love, compassion, and determination. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jeremy Fisher, The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit, The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of The Pie and The Patty-Pan, The Tale of Mr. The stories inside are: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mrs. This edition includes a section at the end that contains four additional works by Beatrix Potter that were not published in her lifetime. The tales are arranged in the order in which they were first published. This complete and unabridged collection contains all 23 of Beatrix Potter's tales in one deluxe volume with all their original illustrations. A perfect gift to introduce children to the world of Beatrix Potter, The Complete Tales is a timeless and classic essential for any nursery shelf. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of The Night Land Clark Ashton Smith wrote "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. The importance of The Night Land was recognized by its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1972. The last millions of humans still live in their Last Redoubt - but the end of their days is at hand.įirst published in 1912, as a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The days of light are nothing by a legend - they are a story told to soothe children. ![]() Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. "One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written"-H.P. 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One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as the crew unlocks the secrets of this twisted society, the most haunting fact they must face is how similar it is to their own. Something is wrong with the inhabitants of Eden. And everywhere there are images of death: mass graves, bodies in ditches and wells, clusters of egglike structures filled with skeletons. In a labyrinth of plant-shaped buildings are dead ends, passageways, domes, vaulted ceilings, and giant statues. But it is the signs of humanity that are most puzzling. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick spiderlike vegetation. Six explorersthe Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticistcrash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. ![]() From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates ' a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad' (Kirkus Reviews). ![]() ![]() “Death as a Gift” has none of the problems of “Losing Voice.” Whereas Dr. Three of these stories, “Losing Voice,” “Death as a Gift,” and “Sacrificing the Few for the Many,” are available as PDF versions on the I Am Legend website, which is how I’m reading them as we speak. I Am Legend: Awakening contains five stories: “Losing Voice: Ethan’s Story” by Steve Niles and Bill Sienkiewicz “Death as a Gift” and “Sacrificing the Few for the Many” by Dawn Thomas and Jason Chan “Isolation” by Mark Protosevich and David Levy and “Fighting Change” by Richard Christian Matheson (that name sounds familiar…) and David Levy. It’s a free comic book, which makes it one of the nicer freebies ever made available for the general public for a movie launch, though not as good as the Night Watch poster or the Ravenous beef jerky sticks I got once. ![]() To further sell the upcoming movie I Am Legend, which I doubt no one here has heard of, considering I only see the commercial every 15 minutes on television, Warner Brothers has launched a promotional comic book with the help of Vertigo featuring six stories set in the I Am Legend continuity, detailing the stories of other survivors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a portrait that is at once remarkable and fascinating, tragic and triumphant. ![]() Award-winning author Emily Arnold McCully opens the window on a peculiar and singular intellect, shaped - and hampered - by history, social norms, and family dysfunction. Their ensuing collaborations resulted in ideas and concepts that presaged computer programming by almost two hundred years, and Ada Lovelace is now recognized as a pioneer and prophet of the information age. At seventeen, Ada met eccentric inventor Charles Babbage, a kindred spirit. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. 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Rachel Beanland captures this age of discretion in her debut novel. Not so long ago, however, there were families who considered secrecy a virtue. We prize vulnerability, living out loud and truth telling even when it hurts - especially if it hurts. ![]() FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER By Rachel Beanland ![]() |