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That evening, the house recites to the absent hostess a random selection by her favorite poet, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale. A windstorm blows a tree branch through a window in the kitchen, starting a fire. The house's systems desperately attempt to put out the fire, but the doomed home burns to the ground in a night.
The House is a 2022 British stop-motion adult animated dark comedy anthology film written by Enda Walsh and telling different stories forming a trilogy spanning different worlds and characters but set inside the same house.
The Dutch House is a 2019 novel by Ann Patchett.It was published by Harper on September 24, 2019. It tells the story of a brother and sister, Danny and Maeve Conroy, who grow up in a mansion known as the Dutch House, and their lives over five decades.
Le Silence de la mer (French: [lə silɑ̃s də la mɛʁ], English titles Silence of the Sea and Put Out the Light, is a French novella written in 1941 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors". [1] Published secretly in German-occupied Paris in 1942, [2] the book quickly became a symbol of mental resistance against German occupiers. [1]
Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self is a novel by author Pauline Hopkins that was serialized in The Colored American Magazine from November 1902 to November 1903, during the four-year period in which Hopkins served as its editor.
At the end of the first book, she opens him up on the first day of Spring, and the blowing wind blows into him and lifts him and Mary Poppins into the air and away from the Banks family’s house. He loves flying, as stated in the final story of the third book, when after “opening the door”, Mary Poppins opens him up and he soars up quickly ...
The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for The Wall Street Journal. [1] The book was made into a 1993 made-for-TV movie by HBO, also called Barbarians at the Gate. The book centers on F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco, who planned to buy out the rest of the Nabisco shareholders.
Clarissa Dalloway goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening. The nice day reminds her of her youth spent in the countryside in Bourton and makes her wonder about her choice of husband; she had married the reliable, successful, Richard Dalloway instead of the enigmatic and demanding Peter Walsh, and she "had not the option" to be with a female romantic ...