Mont saint michel and chartres5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With daring and inventive conceits, Adams looks at the ordinary people, places, and events in the context of the social conventions and systems of thought and belief of the thirteenth century turning the study of history into a kind of theater.Īs Raymond Carney discusses in his introduction, Adams' freeedom from the European traditions of study lends an exuberance-and puckish wit-to his writings. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. ![]()
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Dualed by Elsie Chapman5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() The book is pure teenage girl YA filled with anger, angst, confusion, love, betrayal. West has to survive, and get some answers. Failure to follow through on her assignment means the board has issued a reward for her death. When one of the Alts she’s been assigned to eliminate turns out to be someone she recognizes…someone who is NOT an Alt but a ‘Complete’ … she knows she’s been set up. She balks, but is made some promises which put her on a path she’s never comfortable moving along. But some members of that board have other thoughts, needing West to assist in the elimination of other Alts. It would seem that our heroine, fifteen year old West Grayer, has already succeeded in killing her Alt and is hoping to move on with her life. This insures that the children who succeed will grow up to be battle-tested and strong enough to be good members of society (survival of the fittest). To become ‘complete’ each youth must kill their Alt. All children are born with a genetic alternate (“Alt”) twin. ![]() What we have is a future/alternate world in which a community is controlled by a corrupt governing board. I have not read book one ( Dualed), though a sampler was provided by the publisher, through NetGalley, which did give me a little taste of what the series would be about. Divided, by Elsie Chapman, is the second book in a YA series. ![]() Bram stoker's dracula book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The research would have been easier, Spedding admits, had Stoker's handwriting not been so appalling. In one book, which mentions the human instinct to "extinguish life", there is a note which possibly reads: "bosh". Stoker never visited Transylvania, instead using contemporary travel books to form the backdrop for Dracula Did Stoker write 'Bosh' in the margin here?Įlsewhere, Stoker appears to have noted lines describing death and the paranormal. The more Spedding explored the library's book stacks, the more he discovered crosses, lines and page turn-downs, consistent with Eighteen-Bisang's book. The library's copy is littered with pencil marks closely correlating with a transcription of Stoker's Dracula notes, published by Robert Eighteen-Bisang. Book stacks at the London LibraryĪmong the books that Stoker is thought to have borrowed while researching Dracula, is The Book of Werewolves, an egregious tome by Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould. Dracula was to become the exception to the rule. His other stuff is dreadful," says Spedding. While Stoker's name may be revered in the literary world, in fact he wasn't a natural talent when it came to pen and paper. ![]() He was proposed by Hall Caine, the man Dracula is dedicated to. Bram Stoker's London Library subscriptionĪn Irish businessman living in Chelsea, Stoker joined the London Library in 1890. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It reminds us that friendship can outlast storms and landslides, anger and and jealousy.įind out more about the historical background, what inspired me to write it, reviews, reading group guides and more. The strong bond between Mary and Elizabeth sees them through struggles with poverty, rivalry and ostracism, as well as the physical dangers of their chosen obsession. In danger of being an outcast in her community, she takes solace in an unlikely friendship with Elizabeth Philpot, a prickly London spinster with her own passion for fossils. Working in an arena dominated by middle-class men, however, Mary finds herself out of step with her working-class background. Remarkable Creatures is the story of Mary Anning, who has a talent for finding fossils, and whose discovery of ancient marine reptiles such as that ichthyosaur shakes the scientific community and leads to new ways of thinking about the creation of the world. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except that it has a huge, bulbous eye. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back. We say very little, for we do not need to. In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. Remarkable Creatures Quotes Showing 1-30 of 50. ![]() ![]() ![]() But they had given me this typewriter to work on, so I just started writing stories. 'They would give me four lines or so to write and four or five days to write it in. Two years later, he abandoned sculpting completely, feeling his work had become too abstract, and found a job writing copy for a London advertising agency. ![]() In 1958 Trevor published his first novel, A Standard of Behaviour, to little critical success. But, had it not happened, I think I might never have written at all." He could have returned to Ireland once he became a successful writer, he said, "but by then I had become a wanderer, and one way and another, I just stayed in England. He first exercised his artistry as a sculptor, working as a teacher in Northern Ireland and then emigrated to England in search of work when the school went bankrupt. William Trevor, KBE grew up in various provincial towns and attended a number of schools, graduating from Trinity College, in Dublin, with a degree in history. ![]() Copenhagen frayn5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Indeed, its victory seemed imminent.īeyond those questions, the ongoing historical-philosophical debate centers on what role, if any, the meeting had in shaping World War II's end in general, and the creation-and ultimate proliferation of-nuclear weapons in particular. Was Heisenberg attempting to elicit classified scientific information from Bohrs? Or, was he there to warn him in some way? At that point in time, Germany was winning the war. Why Heisenberg secretly journeyed to Copenhagen and what transpired between the two men has intrigued historians and scientists for more than five decades. The award-winning British import, playing in London's West End to sold-out houses, details a 1941 encounter between Nobel prize-winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg (Michael Cumptsy)-who helmed the atomic bomb program for the Nazis-and his Danish Nobel Prize-winning mentor Niels Bohr (Philip Bosco) and Bohr's wife Margrethe (Blair Brown). Consider "Copenhagen," a new play by Michael Frayn, which bowed on Broadway at the Royale Theatre April 11. ![]() The task becomes especially daunting if the topic and characters in question are emotionally charged. Onstage re-creations of historical events, featuring real life figures, pose a host of challenges for the creators, not the least of which is their need to maintain a delicate balance between accuracy (however that is defined) and interpretation. ![]() To desire a devil by elizabeth hoyt5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Aubyn is a character that has been “dead” since the beginning of the series. ![]() This is the fourth and final book in The Legend of Four Soldiers series. But can Beatrice’s love tame a man who will stop at nothing to regain his title-even if it means sacrificing her innocence? For his part, Reynaud is drawn to this lovely lady, even as he is suspicious of her loyalty to her uncle. Only Beatrice can see past Reynaud’s savagery to the noble man inside. Suddenly, that very man is here, in the flesh-and luring her into his bed. But she has a secret: No real man has ever excited her more than the handsome youth in the portrait in her uncle’s home. Can this wild-looking man truly be the last earl’s heir, thought murdered by Indians years ago?īeatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. Now half mad with fever he bursts into his ancestral home and demands his due. Aubyn has spent the last seven years in hellish captivity. Casee‘s review of To Desire a Devil (The Legend of Four Soldiers series, book 4) by Elizabeth Hoyt. ![]() The divine comedy gustave dore5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The process of the emancipation of Czech theatre in the second half of the 19th century, culminating in the opening of the National theatre in 1883, comprised a number of creative attempts which aimed at providing the Czech audiences with original dramatic texts. The pictorial comment to the Inferno opens up new aesthetic values of the poem and represents one of the characteristic forms of its figurative vision at the present stage. The graphic language of Doré reveals a strong influence from the illustrations by John Martin (1789-1854) to Milton's (1608-1674) Paradise Lost. Particular attention is paid to the specifics of the master's creative method and his connection with the tendencies of the romantic art of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), William Blake (1757-1827), and a group of German and Austrian artists called the "Nazarenes". The main objective is to study the synthesis of the visual and conceptual plan of the Commedia. ![]() The author carries out an image-stylistic analysis of the graphic artists solution. ![]() The article deals with the interpretation of the literary idea of "Inferno" - the first part of the Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) Divine Comedy as realised in the exemplary series of the French engraver, painter and master of the art books of the 19th century Gustave Dore (1832-1883). ![]() Bad witch burning5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() However, when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. What do ghosts know about eating peanut butter for dinner? ![]() ![]() Things get worse, when a ghost warns her to stop the summoning’s or she’ll “burn everything down.” Katrell is willing to call them on their bluff, though. Clients pay her to talk to their deceased loved ones, but it isn’t enough to support her unemployed mother and Mom’s deadbeat boyfriend-of-the-week. Katrell doesn’t mind talking to the dead she just wishes it made more money. For fans of Us and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes a witchy story full of black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future. ![]() Begging for change by sharon g flake5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her breakout novel, The Skin I'm In, established her as a must-read author among middle and high school students, parents, and educators. Flake has an international reputation as a top author for children and young adults. Will she and Momma ever move out of the projects? What did Ja'nae do with the two hundred bucks Raspberry loaned her? And what's really going on with Momma and that rich doctor? A haunting story of greed and forgiveness by the award-winning author of The Skin I'm In, this unforgettable novel will keep you glued to every page. But even money can't answer the questions that keep Raspberry awake at night. And, when money is your best friend, there's more to do than hold it. When the green stuff greases her palm, she gets comfort from feeling its crinkly paper power. Memories of being homeless, sleeping in the streets, and eating handouts keep Raspberry's eye on the only prize that matters to her: cold, hard cash. She will do just about anything legal to get her hands on the almighty dollar - wash cars, sell rotten candy, skip lunch, clean houses. Thirteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is starved for money. The mesmerizing story of one girl's struggle to break her family's cycle of poverty is reissued with an arresting new cover. ![]() |