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This digital document is an article from Europe, 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1004 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. Includes articles written by eminent scholars covering major topics in art, government, and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. Also covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish Inquisition, Utopia and others. ... Read more

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Title: The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701.(Book Review)
Author: John J. Hurt
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 39Issue: 2Page: 350(3)

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Denise Holden's life is a fragile mix of luck and hard work. A singlemom of a speech-delayed son, Denise makes ends meet by moving to the small townof Edenton, North Carolina, and working the late shift as a waitress. WhenDenise crashes her car and her son Kyle flees the accident and disappears intothe storm, her only stroke of luck is the quick arrival of Taylor McAden, avolunteer fireman. Taylor's got a knack for fixing people, and he can't helpwanting to be involved with Denise beyond the initial rescue of Kyle.As Taylor helps Denise recover from the accident and get to know the town, theydiscover a sweet bond and a magical chemistry that pulls them closer and closer.Though Taylor fits perfectly into Denise's family, he's unable to open his heartto being loved by her. As Taylor struggles to understand his conflictingdesires, Denise questions the wisdom of gambling with Kyle's and her ownemotions.Author Nicholas Sparks has found a loyal audience for his stories about theinternal battles that accompany the arrival of love. His heroes may betruck-driving manly men and his heroines emotional swamis, but it's easy tooverlook the traditional roles when the complexities of human relationships areso beautifully described. Sparks has found his forte, and this novel is sure tobe as popular as his earlier works. --Nancy R.E. O'BrienAmazon.com Review
Denise Holden's life is a fragile mix of luck and hard work. A single mom of a speech-delayed son, Denise makes ends meet by moving to the small town of Edenton, North Carolina, and working the late shift as a waitress. When Denise crashes her car and her son Kyle flees the accident and disappears into the storm, her only stroke of luck is the quick arrival of Taylor McAden, a volunteer fireman. Taylor's got a knack for fixing people, and he can't help wanting to be involved with Denise beyond the initial rescue of Kyle.

As Taylor helps Denise recover from the accident and get to know the town, they discover a sweet bond and a magical chemistry that pulls them closer and closer. Though Taylor fits perfectly into Denise's family, he's unable to open his heart to being loved by her. As Taylor struggles to understand his conflicting desires, Denise questions the wisdom of gambling with Kyle's and her own emotions.

Author Nicholas Sparks has found a loyal audience for his stories about the internal battles that accompany the arrival of love. His heroes may be truck-driving manly men and his heroines emotional swamis, but it's easy to overlook the traditional roles when the complexities of human relationships are so beautifully described. Sparks has found his forte, and this novel is sure to be as popular as his earlier works. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien ... Read more

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Great BOok
This is the First book of Nicholas Sparks I ever read and it was wonderful one of those hard to put down books . I highly recommend this book

A Great Beach Read
This was my first NIcholas Sparks read, I grabbed it on our beach vacation just looking for anything as I had run out of reading material. I am not sorry I did, this story sucked me in immediately and I could not put it down. The characters are so real I love the way he builds them up and helps you to see what is going on inside them but your not confirmed until the character is willing to reveal themselves to you. I found a few of the fires a little hard to believe, the thematic elements were strong, being a fireman's wife I know some incidents were a little exaggerated but it was still gripping. And I can excuse accuracy for a good read. And this was defiantly a good read!

The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
Another great story by Nicholas Sparks.He is some writer. The Rescue was a wonderful story.I just love all his books that I've read.

Makes you rethink the way you have been looking at your life
Sparks does it again! This incredible story takes you on the journey of a single mother and her son with a disability to learn a language. As she is trying to escape a storm she gets in a car ride that changes the rest of her life.

She finds herself falling for the fireman who rescued her and her son, but at the peak of their relationship he starts to pull away. Not understanding why he was acting like this she breaks up with him.

This story is amazing and as it takes you into a world that only Sparks could have written. This book is a great read for anyone interested in a great book that you can't put down.

I would however caution parents that some parts aren't very appropriate and that this book's should probably only be held in the hands of people 13 years and up.

very disappointend!
I love the author so much. I have all of his books and this is the one I really didn't like ... I couldn't believe it at first but the more I read, the more I disliked it. not recommending this book! ... Read more

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Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price ...Amazon.com Review
The young Robert Louis Stevenson sufferedfrom repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day heworked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleysof old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produceda story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, sohe promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote itagain. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published asa "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In thefirst six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it.Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and hisfamily visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters atthe dock in New York City.Compulsively readable from its openingpages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best talesever written about the divided self.

This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitelyproduced paperback. The book design, based on the original firstedition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on thetitle page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable fontthat is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes aforeword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure"like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and comparesStevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe,Wilde, and Dickens.

This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renownedillustrator BarryMoser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter aswell as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explainsthe process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite ofengravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes,"I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefullysculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments Ihad to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more importantto stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde'sface." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster ... Read more

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Dark Classic
Although we all know the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you don't really know it until you read it.I was surprised to find out how different reading the book was compared to the various TV and popular portrayals.It's somewhat along the lines of Frankenstein and Dracula although not quite as dark.It's an intriguing story but also carries an underlying moral.The moral focuses on the good and bad parts of human nature.The part that we allow to grow is the part that ultimately takes control.For Dr. Jekyll, he allowed his bad nature (Hyde) to overpower his good nature (Jekyll) and eventually succumbed.A quick and interesting read.

Loses something since we all know the "twist" ending
This novella is very, very gay. Whether Robert Louis Stevenson was a repressed homosexual I do not know but the subtext is very, very strong. Handsome prose; pervaded by an extreme sense of guilt at the thought of leading a secret, double life. Jekyll is pronounced 'JEEkyll' not 'JEHkyll.'

Worth the read
I always thought I knew this story just because the idea of having a dual personality is an idea with which a lot of us can relate.I knew that the story was about a doctor who made some potion of sorts that turned him into an unscrupulous man.But there were several things that I learned from taking the short amount of time to read this story.I did not know that the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was being told in the aftermath of the confusion of it all.I discovered that there were deep of emotions and grief tied to Dr. Jekyll's decisions and actions.I also learned that Hyde was the complete picture of the devil on our shoulder.So for knowing what the book was about, I was missing key pieces that I found delighting to discover while reading it for myself.I would recommend it.I have the Cricket House Books publication of it myself.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeIt is compact and was easy to carry along in my purse.

Amazing Classical Read.
Wow! What an awesome book. This classic thriller/mystery was such a gripping tale of duplicity. I couldn't put it down once I started reading. It wasn't what I imagined it to be, but after filtering all the 1880's lingo, I was spell bound the minute Mr. Utterson stepped on the scene of Dr. Jekyll's front door. I would highly recommend this to anyone over the age of 13. This short novel didn't waste a single word. It was filled with beautiful prose, realistic dialogue (for it's time) and quite a thrilling plot and twist.
The brilliance comes through in such passages as,,, "First, because I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound for ever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and awful pressure..." found near the end - near the end of the author's own life. Somehow that makes this book more meaningful and its theme more powerful...5 Stars!

Jeff Bennington
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Engaging and slightly disturbing; a great classic to read
This was another classic book, like the Phantom of the Opera, that I had heard a lot about but never actually sat down and read.It is a pretty quick read, well written, and fairly disturbing...although maybe not by today's standards.

Most of the story is told from the viewpoint of Mr. Utterson, a lawyer who is a friend of Dr. Jekyll's and who observes Dr. Jekyll's strangeness from an outside perspective.Mr. Utterson has some experience bumping into Mr. Hyde as well and finds Mr. Hyde a most disturbing character.Most people know the premise behind the story, so the surprise twist at the ending isn't really a surprise.Basically Mr. Utterson tells you about Dr. Jekyll and how Dr. Jekyll's life is intertwined with the disturbing Mr. Hyde.Things culminate when Mr. Utterson receives a journal of Dr. Jekyll's that explains Dr. Jekyll's experiment in full.

This is a dark, mysterious read.If would have been full of suspense had I not already known the story.From Mr. Utterson's point of view the things that happen to Dr. Jekyll and involving Mr. Hyde are disturbing and upsetting.It isn't until you read Dr. Jekyll's journal, at the end of the book, detailing his experiments that things get very creepy and a bit spooky.

As a chemist I have to say that the chemistry described in the book and it's affect on Dr. Jekyll is ridiculous.I realize this is a work of fiction however and choose to ignore that, although I had to mention it.

Stevenson's writing is very readable; and the mystery and gloominess pervading the story is distinct.The story is very engaging and I found myself hard-pressed to put the novel down.At times the language is dated and a bit wordy, but I expected that.

Overall I am happy that I read this.It was nice to get the full version of the story and see what all following works were based on.It is a good piece of literature and an enjoyable read.Dr. Jekyll's journal at the end brings up some deeper questions about duplicity of personalities and the good and evil that dwells in all humans; so from that aspect it also gives the reader some food for thought. ... Read more

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Johnny Gunther was 17 when he died of a brain tumor. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy in his fight to overcome a dreadful disease that doctors had then only begun to understand. "A story of great unselfishness and great heroism."--The New York Times. ... Read more

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unforgetable
I read this book as a school assignment more than 50 years ago and it still stays with me. It continues tomove me when I think about it despite all the years that have passed
As a child I was easily able to relate to the main character. For me it was a life changing experience.
My view of life and death was altered and it certainly had a part in my decision to become a physician and ultimately a neurologist
Perhaps most sadly while we can do surgery and have some chemotherapy the life expectancy for malignant brain tumors has not changed much if at all.
Others have described this books details; I can only add that it is a very moving and inspiring book still relevant today

Death Be Not Proud
I had heard about this book and decided to get a copy to read.I
found it meaningful.It arrived on time and in good condition.

Influential
Death be not Proud is a one of a kind book. Through the use of great language and eloquence, John Gunther instills within one a message of selflessness and struggle.

The book is primarily centered around a boy who develops a life threatening brain tumor which alters his life for the worse. Despite the alteration, the boy continues to push forward and maintains great composure as if nothing happened to him. From the very onset of the brain tumor, Johnny always tried to relieve others of grief - a strong act of selflessness. This along with his other venerable qualities are touching and very influential. Once one understands what the boy has been through, one realizes that life is precious and full of many pitfalls and obstacles. Although the book has a lot of sadness attached to it, it does not obstruct the flow of the book - it only adds on.

Read the book and I'm sure it will keep you flipping pages!

A Brave Face in the Time of Death
Sometimes all one needs to possess is courage, wit, and patience in order for one to stave off death.
In John Gunther's classic 1950 memoir, Death Be Not Proud, the author describes the optimism and courage his son, Johnny, possesses throughout the last months of his life as he struggles with cancer. Johnny Gunther is only seventeen years old when his life ends after a courageous, fifteen-month-long battle in which he fought for his life against a malignant glioma, or fatal brain tumor.
Johnny, a high school junior, who is the top in his class academically at Deerfield Academy, is diagnosed with a brain tumor in April, 1946. Although the malevolent disease strikes at Johnny's most promising quality, his intelligence, he gallantly continues to strive to achieve his goals; ultimately, he never once gives up hope of recovering. While in the hospital, Johnny often frets about becoming behind on his schoolwork. On the "good days," when he is feeling well, he diligently completes his assignments. Another aspect of Johnny's life that helps him retain his strong will to live is his desire to make stimulating scientific discoveries. Each time he is healthy enough to leave the hospital, he immediately conjures a list of materials needed to conduct experiments that will help the world.
John Gunther, Sr. and his ex-wife, Frances Gunther, are told by numerous doctors that their son will inevitably die; instead of giving up, they mirror their son's courage, and begin educating themselves about all tumors and alternative medical procedures; they also contact anyone who can be of any assistance. Johnny and his parents learn that they must fight as hard as they can, but are still be able to live and enjoy Johnny's last days leading up to his demise. His parents' constant love and devotion to try anything to save their son from the deathly, orange-sized tumor inside of his head is truly heartwarming.
Throughout Johnny's ordeal, he never ceases to think of others first. His selflessness is remarkable. Upon first learning from a doctor that he has a brain tumor, Johnny immediately says, "Do my parents know? How shall we break it to them?" (4). Another time, after a modest fit of complaining, Johnny requests for John, Sr., to slap him whenever he carps, because he is not the only person in the world who is suffering. Everyone around Johnny is impressed by his biting wit and his innate friendliness as well as his unflagging patience - even during times of desolation. Although his cheerful outlook is almost always present, it sometimes acts as a mask, hiding his fears from his parents and the people around him, so they will not be forced to suffer with him. John Gunther, Sr. describes his son's hardship of always having to put on a good face, in order to spare others the pain. After a companion of Johnny's comes to see him, John writes, "The effort to pretend that the tumor was nothing cost him dearly; the piece of his invincible fight was great fatigue. It took a miserable lot out of him to pretend to ignore what he must have known to be the truth, that he wasn't getting any better" (117). Often times, after having visitors, Johnny is overcome with terrible bouts of tiredness and pain, due to acting as though nothing is wrong.
Six months after Johnny Gunther is first beaten down with his headaches, impairment to his vision, and terrible fatigue, he has a miraculous recovery, which astonishes all of his doctors at the time. The doctors try to decide what has triggered the steady increase in health and the decrease in the size of his tumor. Although, as one knows from reading the first page of the memoir, Johnny's miracle does not last forever; however, even when he becomes sick, once-again, his sanguinity that he will again recover is admirable.
This book, written in a matter-of-fact first-person narrative, as well as a series of letters and diary entries written by Johnny and Frances, is a memoir that a reader never wishes to put down and yearns to learn what happens next. John, Sr.'s depiction of his family's battle to keep death away, and his reverence of his son's character are enticing. Johnny's letters and diary entries range from before his illness up until his very last day. His spirit throughout them remains mostly constant - upbeat and ready to achieve all he can. In a few brief moments of fear and anguish, he expresses his pains in his journal, so he does not worry his parents with them. In her letter, Frances reminds those, who have not been afflicted with the terrible misfortune of losing a child, that they must always love their children.
Although Johnny's life ends well before it should, he is able to make an enormously profound impact on everyone he meets, as well as those who simply hear or read about him. Before his death, Johnny writes "The Gunther Philosophy," which includes a part reading, "Live while you're living then die and be done with - never refuse challenge - never give up trying etc." (171). Even when Johnny knows he is close to the end, he remains positive and excited about what the world has to offer him. He is aware that he must take advantage of all he can while alive.

Death Be Not Proud
"Accept my gratitude
for all thy gifts
and I shall try
to fight the good fight. Amen."

This is the prayer written by Johnny Gunther, a seventeen year old Deerfield Academy student, who was suddenly inflicted with a fatal brain tumor. Death Be Not Proud, is his father, John Gunther's, heartbreaking account of Johnny's last years alive, a heart wrenching and lyrical tribute to a boy who had so much life left to live.
Johnny's his father vividly and hauntingly recounts Johnny's always optimistic and persevering attitude through invasive operations and intensive treatments, even with the knowledge that death is looming around the corner. Eloquently written, day-by-day the reader feels as though he is part of the struggle, living within the pain of this family. Gunther, the famous author of Inside Europe and Inside America, had most likely had never imagined a story like this to become one of his most famous works. Written only two years after Johnny's death, it seems to be a hard story for a father to write - filled with emotion, honesty, and a true depiction of Johnny's struggle.
Gunther wanted to provide perspective and condolence to families who have had to face the reality of the death of a child, not knowing the impact it would make in this harsh world. He wrote this book, like the journalist he was, without sentiment or an overly pitying portrayal of the family's confrontation with death. He wrote it how it happened, with every thought that went through their minds, with every word that Johnny murmured, and with every laugh that they shared. Gunther did not write the book to tell the world of his son's battle, but to honor his "level-headed courage," patience, and an unfaltering wit and optimism during this time of anguish.
In and out of hospitals and operation rooms in New York City from 1945 until 1947, Johnny knew his destiny. Death. He worked hard to enlighten himself in science and math, adamant that he would make up the semesters he had missed, and return to Deerfield to graduate. No matter the exhaustion, the treatments, or the diet restrictions, Johnny always had a joke to tell or a new textbook next to his bed. Although terminally ill, his hair gone, and his body weak, he insisted that he walk down the aisle and receive his diploma without any assistance, showing no indication that he had endured such exhaustive treatments. This quote of Gunther's vivid writing that makes you feel as though you are part of every step in his battle. "Johnny stepped out of the mass of his fellows and trod by us, carefully keeping in the exact center of the long aisle, looking neither to the left or to the right, but straight ahead, fixedly, with the white bandages flashing in the light through the high windows, his chin up, carefully, not faltering, steady, but slowly, so very slowly. The applause became thunder, it rose and soared and banged, when Johnny finally reached pulpit. Mr. Flynt carefully tried to put the diploma in his right hand, as planned, firmly Johnny took it from the right hand to the left, as was proper, and while the whole audience rocked now with release from tension, and was still wildly, thunderously applauding, he passed around to the side and, not seeing us, reached his place among his friends." (122-123)
I found myself up late at night unable to put this book down, as it was intriguing, yet brought pain with each page turn. Since its first publication in 1949, it has never been out of print, illustrating the impact it has had on people even up until today. This heartwarming, yet heart wrenching story of a young man's life stolen away from him is a story which I full recommend for adults as well as young adults.
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