![]() ![]() Poe uses an abundant amount of imagery throughout the piece to show the main character Montresor despises Fortunato. ![]() “The Cask of Amontillado” is an intriguing piece that attracts audiences through imagery, irony, and suspense. A man named “Montresor” seeks revenge through precise planning and deviant actions to gain ease, ease from discomfort “Fortunato” brought against him and his families name (Poe). ![]() Set in the 19th century, disrespect towards a man’s family name is an action accepted by no one (Poe). Poe organizes this piece as a thriller through various techniques of suspense and curiosity. “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe, is a work of literature that sets a dark magnetic attraction for all types of readers. ![]()
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![]() That’s the first book: very young girls having sweet and funny adventures in small-town Minnesota at the turn of the last century. From that day forth they are inseparable, which is why the neighbors always call them Betsy-Tacy. Betsy Ray’s story-which is very, very similar to Maud’s real life story-kicks off on her fifth birthday, the day she gets to know her lifelong best friend, Tacy Kelly. Not sure where to start? Here’s a rundown of the Betsy-Tacy books and their Deep Valley companions.īook 1: Betsy-Tacy. You know, the book I’ve been squeeing about for months, the one I had the thrill-me-to-my-very-bones honor of writing the foreword for? That one! ![]() Participants will have a chance to win copies of HarperPerennial’s brand-new reissues of Emily of Deep Valley and (in a double volume, two books in one) Carney’s House Party / Winona’s Pony Cart. Pick out some Betsy-Tacy or Deep Valley books and skip on over to sign up. ![]() The blog A Library Is the Hospital of the Mind is hosting a Maud Hart Lovelace reading challenge during the month of October. ![]() Octo 7:58 am | Filed under: Betsy-Tacy, Books ![]() ![]() ![]() What unfolds is a dazzling novel teeming with unforgettable characters: the Italian and his long-lost love the heroically cynical film producer who first brought them together, now a successful legend on the Hollywood scene, and his idealistic young assistant and the husbands, wives and lovers, superstars and victims, who have populated their world since that summer day in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. Half a century later, and half a world away in Hollywood, an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the woman he last saw in his hotel fifty years before. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, read by Amy Finegan. ![]() ![]() A few days later international star Richard Burton, much the worse for wear, appears in the village too. ![]() She turns out to be an actress, on the run from the shenanigans going on down the coast in Rome at the filming of Cleopatra. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, read by Amy Finegan. ![]() |