It was in the fierce, icy wilderness that was Alaska in 1895, that he was born. Here in the frozen north, he learned the law of the wild, the law of meat - eat or be eaten! His experiences with the man-gods did not breed love, only respect for brutal power. Then a man rescued him from the jaws of death and showed him kindness and White Fang did not understand.
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TheCambridge Introduction to George Eliot
George Eliot’s life provides as compelling a narrative as any she ever invented. Born the same year as Queen Victoria, the woman known successively asMary Anne Evans, Marian Lewes, George Eliot and Mary Ann Cross lived through dramatic personal and cultural changes that track those of the nineteenth century. While George Eliot refused to sanction any biography during her life, she showed a lively interest in the biographies of others. After reading J. G. Lockhart’s Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1839), for example, she wrote: “All biography is interesting
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Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great stories of our time. We follow Sayuri’s life: her early years in a small fishing village and as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her struggle, we know of her secret love for the only man who ever showed her any kindness — a man who seems to be out of her reach
"The Phoenix and the Carpet" tells the story of four children who acquired a magic carpet when they found a special fire egg that hatched in their nursery fireplace. The phoenix came from the egg, and when he saw their mother's new Persian rug, he showed them that it was a magical thing -- a flying carpet that would take them any time and that place they could wish for.
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