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Ann Braithwaite

    27 de junio de 1912 – 12 de diciembre de 2016

    Las contribuciones literarias de E.R. Braithwaite están profundamente arraigadas en su exploración de las condiciones sociales y la discriminación racial. Enfrentado a obstáculos profesionales debido a su estatus de minoría étnica, hizo una transición de la física a la escritura, utilizando sus experiencias para iluminar los desafíos de ser un forastero. Su obra a menudo adopta un enfoque autobiográfico, ofreciendo profundas perspectivas sobre la vida de educadores y trabajadores sociales que luchan por la igualdad. La voz distintiva de Braithwaite reside en su poderosa y honesta representación de las inequidades sociales y su defensa de la comprensión y los derechos humanos.

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    Pánu učiteľovi z lásky
    Goodbye Christopher Robin
    To Sir, with Love
    A. A. Milne
    Troubling Women's Studies
    • Troubling Women's Studies

      • 258 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      These essays present a multifaceted conversation about what is at stake in passing on the institutionalized project of Women's Studies. Framed by the argument that Women's Studies is a project fraught with uncertainty, the authors explore what it means to live within this uncertainty and how one might respond to it intellectually, emotionally, politically, institutionally and pedagogically.

      Troubling Women's Studies
    • A. A. Milne

      • 712 páginas
      • 25 horas de lectura

      "A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ever. His heart-warming creations-Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet-have become some of the best-loved children's characters of all time, and readers the world over are familiar with the stories from the Hundred Acre Wood. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma. Although in many ways his behaviour was that of a typical golf-playing, pipe-smoking Englishman, Milne refused to be typecast, and his publishers despaired when he turned from writing popular columns for Punch to writing detective stories. They complained again when the detective writer presented them with a set of children's verse, but when When We Were Very Young became one of the best-selling books of all time, Milne's credibility as one of the world's favorite authors was sealed. In this biography of Milne, Ann Thwaite reveals the man himself, in all his complexity. As W.A. Darlington put it in 1921, commenting on Milne's highly popular plays, 'Mr Milne is obviously at heart (like all humorists) a serious person, with things to say.' He had strong political feelings, and was a pacifist even before his experiences on the Somme in 1916. There was always something darker and more tangled under 'the bright glitter of surfaces'. At his father's school, Milne was taught by the young H.G. Wells, who remained a lifelong friend; later, J.M. Barrie called him 'my Mr Milne' and was 'uncommon proud of him'; later still, P.G. Wodehouse became one of his greatest admirers, and a friend - but was then deeply hurt by Milne's strong reaction to the notorious wartime broadcasts. Milne's personal relationships, including those with his wife and son, were not always easy. In A.A. Milne: His Life, Ann Thwaite has produced a vivid, sympathetic and entertaining portrait of both the man and his work, set in the context of his time, which stands as the definitive life of a writer whose work has earned some loathing (for its supposed 'whimsy') but much more devotion among readers of all ages, not only in English-speaking countries but all over the world"--Back cover

      A. A. Milne
    • To Sir, with Love

      • 189 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      A negro teacher takes a position at a difficult school in London's East End ; This title is also availble as a film___

      To Sir, with Love
    • Goodbye Christopher Robin

      • 298 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Adapted from the Whitbread-Prize-winning biography of A. A. Milne and the tie- in to a major film.

      Goodbye Christopher Robin