![]() ![]() This prequel attempts to understand why human nature has come to this. ![]() If the Hunger Games trilogy was an exploration of human nature at its worst, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes digs a little deeper. And yet, readers are compelled to turn the page. ![]() Thus, the protagonist of the novel continues to be the villain of the story. This is reinforced by the conclusion of the novel – where he guns down the love of his life simply because he thinks that love makes him weak and vulnerable. But at every step of the way, the reader is reminded that he is simply doing the right thing for himself. Throughout the novel, it almost seems as if Coriolanus is trying to do the right thing whenever he is at a crossroads. His only hope is doing well in the final project for the Academy: the Mentorship program for the tenth Hunger Games. The main problem he has right now is that he does not have enough money to fund his university education. He is instead an arrogant, overconfident, and entitled 18-year-old boy griping about his poverty while living in one of the most imperial mansions in the Capitol. This does not mean that she makes Coriolanus a sympathetic character. However, Collins has turned the villainous antagonist into the protagonist of her prequel. President Coriolanus Snow, a ruthless dictator, and murderer, is hated by the Hunger Games fandom. The novel is a brave attempt simply because it tells the story of the antagonist of the Hunger Games. ![]()
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![]() Snapshots from their family collections take us back to the days when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Richard Starkey were just boys growing up in Liverpool. Furthermore, The Beatles have opened their personal and management archives specifically for this project, allowing the unprecedented release of photographs which they took along their ride to fame, as well as fascinating documents and memorabilia from their homes and offices.Įach page is brimming with personal stories and rare vintage images. Through painstaking compilation of sources worldwide, John Lennon's words are equally represented in this remarkable volume. Together with Yoko Ono Lennon, they have also made available the full transcripts (including all the outtakes) of the television and video series The Beatles Anthology. This extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr have agreed to tell their combined story, especially for this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Ox圜ontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. ![]() |