–"A Handmaid's Tale" won the 2018 Golden Globe for Best TV Series in the Drama category and star Elisabeth Moss won for Best Actress in a TV Drama<br><br> –Hulu's «A Handmaid's Tale» is the first streaming series to win an Emmy for Best Drama.<br><br> –<i>The Washington Post</i> named this series one of the Best TV Shows of 2017 ...
Sales of the Orwell novel, 1984 , have spiked following Trump's election, with U.S. sales in 2017 to date exceeding 400,000 Interest in dystopian fiction is at an all-time high, as readers struggle to make sense of what is happening to their society and culture Books about Orwell, such as Churchhill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom (2017), have also been selling well. This one has sold over 30,000 copies in hardcover since its release i ...
As cartoonist, author, public speaker, blogger, and periscoper, Scott Adams has had best-sellers in several different fields: his Dilbert cartoons, his meditations on the philosophy of Dilbert, his works on how to achieve success in business and all other areas of life, his two remarkable books on religion, and now his controversial work on political persuasion.<br><br> Adams’s two most recent best-sellers are <i>How to Fail a ...
Eight Children in Narnia is a detailed study of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, exploring the story’s influences, themes, symbols, ironies—and the reasons for its enormous popular success. Lobdell draws attention to insistent motifs in the work: the great house in the country, the past alive in the present, the life of the imagination, the mixture of the familiar and the adventurously new, the combination of pagea ...
In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants standing on the back of a swimming turtle who knows where he’s going, the sun goes round the world every day, so it doesn’t have to be very hot, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of fans are addicted to Pratchett’s Discworld, and the interest has only intensified sinc ...
