On his sixth birthday, Henry Alfred Grummorson, a descendant of King Arthur and would-be knight, sets out for adventure but neither dragon, nor cyclops, nor griffin, nor leviathan is willing to engage in a real battle.
At times heart wrenching, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, Grandson of a Slave teaches readers that while systemic racism is still a global institution, hope, love, and perseverance will always overcome.
... a grandson , he shall not recover by an assise of novel disseysine , as well on account of the prerogative of right in the grandson , as because he had not a vacant seysine . But if the uncle has ejected the grandson , the grandson ...
Contains a collection of short satirical works, including "The Red Bow," in which a town is consumed by pet-killing hysteria, and "Bohemians," in which two Eastern European widows attempt to fit into suburban America.
... the grandson Husband of the granddaughter Great - granddaughter Great - grandson Wife of the grandson Wife of the 2nd great - grandson 2nd great - grandson Fulks , Sara Jane Wife of the 2nd great - grandson Hoffman , Ruth Wife of the ...
... the grandson clearly adopts a positional authority vis-à-vis his source text. The translation certainly can be described as largely unidimensional, text-centered and objec- tive. Or, to use Kelly's terms, the grandson does not ...
... the grandson , assigned for a breach , that Simon Fraser the grandson and James Henry Houstoun , in their respective lifetimes , and James Henry Houstoun in his lifetime , after the death of Simon Fraser the grandson , whom he ...
... the grandson , and one of which he might indeed be wary , is that the Greek of his translation is not very good . And , in fact , it is not , especially if measured against the kind of Greek he uses in the prologue . His appeal to the ...
... the grandson thinks to himself , " I would have liked to ask him what it felt like when , after almost sixty years of silence , he finally said something truthful about the origin of that number . Ask him why he had said it to me . Ask ...
... The grandson bent down his hand while crying and Sirimanya was helpless to make him feel comfort and sitting far away from the grandson. While she is also not able to register in herself the moment of the grandfather sleeping without ...