A Guest of Honour

A Guest of Honour
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2002-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0747559880

Brilliant and shocking novel set in South Africa by the Nobel Prize-winner

Guest of Honor

Guest of Honor
Author: Deborah Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439169829

Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.

You're the Guest of Honor, Charlie Brown

You're the Guest of Honor, Charlie Brown
Author: Charles Monroe Schulz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1973
Genre: Brown, Charlie (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780030110269

Charlie Brown comic strip classics by Charles M. Schulz.

July's People

July's People
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408832968

For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

The Dream We Carry

The Dream We Carry
Author: Olav H. Hauge
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2008
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1556592884

Comprehensive, bilingual volume from Norway's sage; translated by the Roberts Bly and Hedin.

The Late Bourgeois World

The Late Bourgeois World
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408836017

Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the Black Nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can she take such a risk in the face of Max's example of the uselessness of such actions? Yet ... how can she not?

Point of Honour

Point of Honour
Author: Madeleine E. Robins
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2005-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466805188

A fallen noblewoman’s first case as a private investigator sends her on a wild adventure on the streets of Regency London in this mystery series debut. In a Regency London that isn’t quite the one we know, young women of family whose reputations have been ruined are known as the Fallen. Young Sarah Tolerance is one such: a daughter of the nobility who ran away with her brother’s fencing-master. Now that the fencing-master has died, everyone expects her to earn her living as a whore. But Sarah is unwilling. Instead, she invents a new role for herself, and a new vocation: “investigative agent.” For Sarah, with her equivocal position in society, is able to float between social layers, unearth secrets, find things that were lost, and lose things too dangerous to be kept. Her stock in trade is her wits, her discretion, and her expertise with the smallsword—for her fencing-master taught her that as well. She will need all her skills soon, when she is approached by an agent of the Count Verseillon, for a task that seems routine: reclaim an antique fan he once gave to “a lady with brown eyes.” The fan, he tells her, is an heirloom; the lady, his first love. But as Sarah Tolerance unravels the mystery that surrounds the fan, she discovers that she—and the Count—are not the only ones seeking it, and that nothing about this task is what it seems. Praise for Point of Honour “Sarah is a fascinating heroine, and Robins surrounds her with equally intriguing secondary characters. Politics, deception, danger, and a bit of romance all come together beautifully in this superb debut.” —Booklist “An action-packed, suspense-filled read, complete with a 19th-century heroine reminiscent of the present day Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” —Romantic Times

Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer
Author: Dominic Head
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1994-11-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521475495

The award to Nadine Gordimer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991 was an affirmation of her distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction and to the creation of a literature that challenges apartheid. In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of her novels in detail, paying close attention to the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the real world, and as evidence of her constant rethinking of her craft. Head shows how Gordimer's concerns, apparent in her earliest novels, are developed through increasing stress on the politics of textuality; and he pursues the implications of this development to consider how Gordimer's later work contributes to postmodernist fiction, and to a recentering of political engagement in an era of uncertainty.

Why Honor Matters

Why Honor Matters
Author: Tamler Sommers
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0465098886

A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled, honor encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity, and gives a sense of living for something larger than oneself. Sommers shows how honor can help us address some of society's most challenging problems, including education, policing, and mass incarceration. Counterintuitive and provocative, Why Honor Matters makes a convincing case for honor as a cornerstone of our modern society.