"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered
by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered
to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a decisive moment of the American
Civil Rights Movement.
Sunday 28 August 2016
Friday 26 August 2016
A DEVASTATING AND HEARTBREAKING EARTHQUAKE
The earthquake that struck central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday has killed almost 300 people. Among scenes of
devastation, dozens of emergency services staff and volunteers have been
working night and day in
the hope of finding people alive in the mangled wreckage of homes in demolished towns.
The earthquake
was powerful enough to be felt in Bologna to the north and Naples to the south,
both more than 220 km (135 miles) from the epicentre.
Here you can read Beppe Severgnini's article about "Italy's fragile beauty".
Saturday 20 August 2016
THE SECRET GARDEN
"The Secret Garden" is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published
in serial format
beginning in 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911.
It is now one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English
children's literature.
Tuesday 2 August 2016
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in the county of Dorset. His
father was a stonemason and his mother educated him until age eight. His family
was too poor to pay for university, so he became an architect's apprentice
until he decided to focus on writing. His stories are generally set in the
Dorset area. In 1874 he married Emma Gifford, and her death in 1912 had a
profound effect on him. In 1914 he married his secretary, Florence Dugdale. His
first few novels were unsuccessful, and even his later works were controversial
and often censored. Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the
Obscure drew strong disapproval for their sexual frankness and social criticism
that Hardy stopped writing fiction, focusing instead on his poetry. He is best
known for Far
from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the
Obscure. He died in 1928, at the age of eighty-seven.
Virginia Woolf
noted some of Thomas Hardy’s enduring power as a writer: “Thus it is no
mere transcript of life at a certain time and place that Hardy has given us. It
is a vision of the world and of man’s lot as they revealed themselves to a
powerful imagination, a profound and poetic genius, a gentle and humane soul.”
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