![]() Behind his back Mae also has taken a liking to Jubal, which she expresses to him in no uncertain terms. He takes an immediate shine to Jubal and offers him a permanent job. ![]() Horgan is a cheerful, agreeable fellow who is married to an attractive, much younger woman named Mae ( Valerie French) whom he met in Canada. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's ( Ernest Borgnine) large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in Pinky ( Rod Steiger), a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep. Jubal Troop ( Glenn Ford) is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. The supporting cast features Noah Beery Jr., Charles Bronson and Jack Elam. ![]() Shot in CinemaScope, it was one of the few adult westerns in the 1950s and is described as Othello on the Range. Jubal is a 1956 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, and Felicia Farr. ![]()
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Ustaw preferencje dotyczące plików cookie ![]() ![]() ![]() ^ "Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku (starred review)".^ "Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku". ![]() ![]() It is a 2012 NCTE/CLA Notable Children's Book in the English Language Arts, won the 2012 Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Poetry, and won the 2013 Beehive Poetry Book Award. Won Ton has also been reviewed by Booklist, BookPage, Horn Book Guides, School Library Journal, and Library Media Connection. Told in senryu, it is about a shelter cat that is adopted by a family.Ī review in Kirkus Reviews of Won Ton wrote "Wardlaw's terse, traditional verse captures catness from every angle, while Yelchin's graphite and gouache illustrations telegraph cat-itude with every stretch and sinuous slink", and Publishers Weekly called it "A surprisingly powerful story in verse." Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku is a 2011 children's picture book by Lee Wardlaw and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. Children's picture book by Lee Wardlaw and Eugene Yelchin. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t until I was about to send the manuscript to the people mentioned in it that I began to understand the consequences of what I had done. Names, places, events were all authentic. Four hundred and fifty pages, a story about my life centered around two events, the first being my mother and father splitting up, the second being my father’s death. After a year like that, where the only perspective that existed was my own, the manuscript was ready to be published. A select few had been aware of what I was writing about, among them my brother Yngve, but they knew none of the detail. Apart from my publisher Geir Gulliksen and best friend Geir Angell, no one had read any of it along the way. ![]() My novel, which had been given the title My Struggle 1, had been written in solitude. ![]() Excerpted from My Struggle: Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard, out now from Archipelago Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leverkühn's life unfolds in the context of, and in parallel with, the German cultural and political environment which led to the rise and downfall of Nazi Germany. His madness - his daemonic inspiration - leads to extraordinary musical brilliance but he feels the progress of his neuro-syphilitic madness leading towards complete breakdown. He is subsequently visited by a Mephistophelean being (who says, in effect, "that you can only see me because you are mad, does not mean that I do not really exist"), and, renouncing love, bargains his soul in exchange for twenty-four years of creative genius. 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