solitude
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Mr. Hazareesingh describes how Solitude, a pregnant, formerly enslaved woman in Guadeloupe, encouraged a group of people to fight back against the French soldiers sent by Napoleon in 1802 to reinstate slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
In his ground-breaking novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez famously highlighted the massacre of workers on banana plantations in the country in the 1920s.
From BBC • May 18, 2025
The teaser opens with a shot of Corenswet’s Superman making a rough landing, somewhere in the Arctic that isn’t his presumably nearby Fortress of Solitude.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024
Solitude doesn’t have to mean loneliness: To a troubled soul, the climate and terrain can be like-minded companions of profound, tempestuous spirit.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
Along with my other favorite novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, I'd read it more times than I could count.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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