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Inspirational Quotes

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Theme of the Week: James Joyce

Half-length portrait of man in his thirties. He looks to his right so that his face is in profile. He has a mustache, a thin beard, and medium-length hair slicked back, and wears a pince-nez and a plain dark greatcoat, looking vaguely like a Russian revolutionary.

James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.

Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work which follows the movements of Leopold Bloom through a single day in 1904. Ulysses is based on Homer’s Odyssey. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).

Enjoy a video below about Bloomsday, a celebration that takes place both in Dublin and around the world. It celebrates Thursday, 16 of June 1904, which is the day depicted in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.

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10 Little Known Facts About Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf — most know the name, but few know the obscure biographical facts behind the name. Below are 10 little known facts about the troubled writer.

 

    •  Woolf once said that her death would be the “one experience I shall never describe.”

 

    • When Woolf taught at Morley College, she made her students write essays about themselves.
Virginia Woolf in her garden at Monk House
    • For a summer, she went mad believing that the birds were chirping in Greek and King Edward VII was saying curses from behind a nearby bush.

 

    • Woolf was a difficult shopper, often arguing with shopkeepers over what products they had for sale and what products she imagined they should have for sale.
Leonard and Virginia Woolf
    • After getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her wedding ring in a pudding.

 

    • Before Woolf was even 7 years old, her mother, Julia, was teaching her Latin, French, and History.
(L-R) Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton, Guy Ridley, Horace Cole
    • Woolf and five of her male friends once received a 40-minute tour of the British battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought with the ship’s commander after painting their faces black, dressing in robes, and presenting themselves as the Prince of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and his entourage.

 

    • Woolf first tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window. The window she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.
T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in 1924
    • When Woolf asked T.S. Eliot at a particular dinner party to define his belief in God, Eliot did not answer.

 

    • When Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who together ran the Hogarth Press, received the manuscript of the first chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses, they turned it down for publication because it was impossible to print the entire book on their handpress.

 

Interested in learning more about Virginia Woolf through her writing?

 

Orlando: A Biography

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141184272

Price: 24,5 GEL

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Between the Acts

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141184524

Price: 24,5 GEL

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The Common Reader

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141389899

Price: 14,9 GEL

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A Room of One’s Own

Author: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780141018980

Price: 14,9 GEL

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Theme of the Week: Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), the short essay The Common Reader (1925) and the book-length essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), with its famous dictum, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been the result of what is now termed bipolar disorder and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

Please enjoy the clip below of Nicole Kidman’s portrayal of Virginia Woolf from the film The Hours.

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Charades #19 – Teenagers and Adults

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We have begun a new round of our hit game, Charades. Our latest video is in our Young Learner’s section.

Take part in the game by clicking on the picture above or the Reader’s Blog Charades link below.

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Christmas Book Suggestions for Students and Pupils

This year we have so many great Christmas books for your hardworking student or pupil that we had to pick our favorites.

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Christmas Carols

Author: Ladybird

ISBN: 9781846469589

A collection of Christmas carols for festive family fun. It contains favourites such as:

Away in a Manger

Once in Royal David’s City

Silent Night

And more!

9 GEL

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Ladybird First Favourite Christmas Book

Author: Alicia Padron

ISBN: 9781409309116

The Ladybird First Favourite Christmas Book contains everything you and your child need for hours of festive fun! A beautifully illustrated first Christmas book with a squishy padded cover and sturdy tabs, it is also a perfect Christmas gift for young children. Use the handy tabbed edges to help find and choose a selection of Christmas favourites.

The first section contains five classic Christmas carols to sing along to:

Away in a Manger

The First Noel

O Little Town of Bethlehem

We Three Kings and Silent Night

Or turn to the second section for cheerful Christmas songs:

Jingle Bells

I Saw Three Ships

Up on the Rooftop

Deck the Halls

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

The final section has a simple, child-friendly retelling of the nativity story, helping young children to understand the meaning behind our modern Christmas.

17 GEL

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Jingle Bells and Other Songs

Author: John Byrne, Anne Waugh

ISBN: 9780194333450

Many of your favorite Christmas classics included!

15 GEL

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Harry and the Dinosaurs make a Christmas Wish

Author: Ian Whybrow, Adrian Reynolds

ISBN: 9780140569520

Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs are back! Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs see some ducklings hatching and wish they could have one of their own. But it’s the wrong time for wishing so they wait until Christmas when Harry makes a special list for Santa. Christmas Day finally arrives and there is a surprise for everyone – it isn’t a duckling but a gorgeous baby pterodactyl!

15 GEL

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The Battle for Christmas

Author: Jeremy Strong

ISBN: 9780141324630

When Ellie puts on her new pyjamas, strange things start to happen. She and her little brother, Max, are whisked off to the Christmas Shop where a battle is raging between a valiant troop of toys and the scaaaarry Christmas Tree Fairy and her army of angels. Can Ellie and Max save Christmas for the world – or will they be arrested for being mince spies? This is the first book in a new series about the Cosmic Pyjamas. They’re magical and they’re dangerous. You have been warned!

15 GEL

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The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories

Author: Wendy Cooling

ISBN: 9780141306612

This collection of Christmas stories has something for all moods as it includes traditional tales, real life, humour, and most importantly, plenty of the magic of Christmas. Writers range from Charles Dickens to Gillian Cross and Majorie Blackman.

10 GEL

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Charades #18 – Teenagers and Adults

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We have begun a new round of our hit game, Charades. Our latest video is in our Young Learner’s section.

Take part in the game by clicking on the picture above or the Reader’s Blog Charades link below.

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On this day…

On this day in 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story A Christmas Carol is published.

Dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmouth. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels.

In his late teens, Dickens became a reporter and started publishing humorous short stories when he was 21. In 1836, a collection of his stories, Sketches by Boz, later known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was published. The same year, he married Catherine Hogarth, with whom he would have nine children. The short sketches in his collection were originally commissioned as captions for humorous drawings by caricature artist Robert Seymour, but Dickens’ whimsical stories about the kindly Samuel Pickwick and his fellow club members soon became popular in their own right. Only 400 copies were printed of the first installment, but by the 15th episode 40,000 copies were printed. When the stories were published in book form in 1837, Dickens quickly became the most popular author of the day.

The success of the Pickwick Papers was soon reproduced with Oliver Twist (1838) and Nicholas Nickleby (1839). In 1841, Dickens published two more novels, then spent five months in the United States, where he was welcomed as a literary hero. Dickens never lost momentum as a writer, churning out major novels every year or two, often in serial form. Among his most important works are David Copperfield (1850), Great Expectations (1861), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859).

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Beginning in 1850, he published his own weekly circular of fiction, poetry, and essays called Household Words. In 1858, Dickens separated from his wife and began a long affair with a young actress. He gave frequent readings, which became immensely popular. He died in 1870 at the age of 58, with his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, still unfinished.