7/4/2023 0 Comments The reddening by adam nevill![]() ![]() A timeless supernormal influence that only the desperate would dream of confronting. A rural idyll where outsiders are unwelcome and where an infernal power is believed to linger beneath the earth. Amidst rumours of drug plantations and new sightings of the mythical red folk, it also appears that the inquisitive have been disappearing from this remote part of the world for years. Upon the walls, images of their nameless gods remain. ![]() A site where early humans butchered each other across sixty thousand years. Disturbing subterranean noises he recorded prior to vanishing, draw her to Brickburgh's caves. Helene, a disillusioned lone parent, lost her brother, Lincoln, six years ago. But when a vast hoard of human remains and prehistoric artefacts is discovered in nearby Brickburgh, a hideous shadow engulfs her life. Lifestyle journalist Katrine escaped past traumas by moving to a coast renowned for seaside holidays and natural beauty. Ancient rites, old deities and savage ways can reappear in the places you least expect. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civilisation. Winner of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel 2020 One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments The habsburgs by martyn rady![]() ![]() "This admirably compact, exceptionally well-written survey will probably be the standard one-volume history of the Habsburg dynasty for years to come."- Library Journal Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history."- Times Literary Supplement (UK) Lucid, comprehensive and witty, it is not merely a pleasure to read but a complete education. "Probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language. "A Rolls Royce of a narrative that motors through ten centuries of history with an effortlessness that belies the intellectual horsepower beneath the bonnet."- Literary Review (UK) It is impossible to imagine a more erudite and incisive history of this fascinating, flawed and ultimately tragic dynasty."- The Times (UK) "Martyn Rady's history of this peculiar family is deeply informed, elegantly written and a joy to read."- Evening Standard (UK) ![]() ![]() “Glory, grief, loss – and incest – are all covered in this panoramic account that makes more sense of the great European dynasty than its rulers often did.”- The Guardian If the Habsburgs could last for a millennium, surely a constitutional republic can."- Wall Street Journal In an era of schisms, America needs a unifying idea of itself as something greater than the sum of its parts. It's not hard to see current parallels to this story. ![]() "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clark, one of the wealthiest men of his time. ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman hopes to change that with his book “Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune.”Īfter combing through tens of thousands of documents and correspondence, and interviewing her inner circle and staff, Dedman and his co-author Paul Clark Newell Jr., a cousin of Clark, reveal the life of the eccentric heiress who inherited a fortune from her copper magnate father William A. NEW YORK (Reuters) - She was one of America’s richest heiresses with sprawling apartments, palatial homes and fabulous paintings, but little was known about the reclusive woman when she died in 2011 at the age of 104 after spending decades living in a hospital. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book, I am pleased to say, does take the question seriously. If you aren't happy with that, go and talk with the sociologists. The physicists tell you that of course they know the answer: there is no such thing as reality. The philosophers look embarrassed, and explain that yes, absolutely, they used to be in charge of it, but now it's been handed over to physics. Try philosophy, they're just down the street. They send you over to talk to the sociologists, who shrug their shoulders sorry guv, nuffin to do wiv us. If you ask the adults, no one's sure whose responsibility it is. This ought to be a question of burning interest to almost everyone, and yet, for some reason, hardly anybody over the age of seventeen seems to take it seriously. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Sorted jackson bird![]() ![]() ![]() In this “soulful and heartfelt coming-of-age story” (Jamia Wilson, director and publisher of the Feminist Press), Jackson chronicles the ups and downs of growing up gender-confused. He barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay, let alone being taught that transgender people existed outside of punchlines. Growing up in Texas in the 1990s, he had no transgender role models. Jackson didn’t share this thought with anyone because he didn’t think he could share it with anyone. When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.Īssigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nowling, where she died on 17 November 1995. ![]() Indianapolis in 1993 to live at the home of her niece, Daphne (Thomas) Remaining true to her Midwest origins, she returned to Village after her first manuscripts were accepted for publication inġ943. Philosophy and English at the University of Iowa and moved to Greenwich A Midwesterner whoĬould not live in the Midwest, Young had left her doctoral studies in Literary and artistic community of Greenwich Village. Removed themselves from her life, which had become defined by the As she grew older, her relatives gradually Both of her parents remarried, and Marguerite maintainedĬontact with her extended families throughout her life through ![]() Younger sister were raised by their maternal grandmother, Marguerite After her parents divorced, Marguerite at age three and her Indianapolis on 26 August 1908 to Chester Ellis and Fay Young (nee ![]() Prose novel, and two poetic prose histories. Marguerite Vivian Young (1908-1995), who began her writing careerĪs a poet, became the author of two volumes of poetry, an epic poetic From "Ventriloquist: The Coffee Hour" (1940) Grows more silent than the thing he shaped. Sinew and heart from sorrowful talk, A hesitant answer of what the heartĪnd even in his answer have I escaped, I am the insubstantial heartīeat which goes From him, in whom are all the leaves of darkness Who I am the delicate spirit who on the air does walk Woven of 2000 Review of Contemporary Fiction 03 May. MLA style: "Marguerite Young." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of this classic novel, Cecile is left with a newfound understanding of the complexities and nuances of life, allowing her to accept her past and move forward into adulthood. The novel explores themes such as loneliness, love, loss, and nostalgia through its vivid description of the Riviera and its characters. The Bonjour Tristesse pdf focuses on Cecile’s emotional struggles throughout the story as she navigates between loyalty to her father and his new relationship with Anne while trying to understand herself and grow into adulthood. At the beginning of the novel, she is living an idle life with her wealthy father Raymond, and her stepmother Anne in their villa on the French Riviera.Īfter Anne’s arrival, Cecile realizes that Raymond may be looking for love again, which disturbs her carefully ordered existence and contributes to her growing feelings of anxiety. The novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cecile, who is a young woman struggling to come of age and understand her place in the world. Similar Books to Bonjour Tristesse Book. ![]() Bonjour Tristesse Book Multiple Languages Editions. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Rose by Jeff Smith![]() The story is well told and worth a read for fans of the Bone series. I love Vess’s artwork in general, so overall I was pleased with the choice to have him illustrate this prequel. ![]() The characters look a bit different but are all recognizable from the previous series and Vess’s interpretation of how the dragons look is absolutely magical. It shows how the Lord of Locusts began gaining power and how Briar betrayed her kingdom.Īlthough it was odd to have a switch of illustrator, Vess did a very nice job with illustration. This tells the story of Rose, Briar, and Lucius in their younger years. The story was good too it just doesn’t tell much beyond what the reader already knows after reading the Bone series ![]() It was a decent book I loved the illustrations by Charles Vess. This was a prequel to the Bone series by Jeff Smith. Stand Alone or Series: Prequel to Bone series ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At worst, romance novels keep them from throwing off the shackles of the patriarchy. At best, romance novels give them unrealistic expectations of love and marriage that will destroy their happiness. They read romances to escape the emptiness and drudgery of their lives. The conversation went like this: Women who read romance novels are poorly educated, working class, likely stay at home mothers. It oozed with classism and misogyny, even in room full of women. I don’t remember much of the book, but I’ll never forget the class discussion. In my first graduate school course, focused on the foundational works of American studies, we read “ Reading the Romance” by Janice Radway, one of the first scholarly treatments of the romance novel genre. ![]() (John-Mark Smith/Unsplash) This article is more than 4 years old. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Dionysus by Walter F. Otto![]() Dionysus and Ariadne accompanie d by satyrs. Dionysus in a ship with bow shaped like an ass's head. Hermes bringing new-born Dionysus to nymphs. ![]() Maenads dancing at the festival of Dionysus. Maenads ladling out wine before Dionysus column.ģ. Maenads in ecstasy before Dionysus column.Ģ. Gods of Bellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead. Dionysus Revealed in Vegetative Nature \, 14. Te di manes tui ut quietam patianturĬopyright © 1965 by Indiana University Press Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 65-11792 Manufactured in the United States of AmericaĬontents by Robert B. ![]() W alterus Otto sU?mnarum artium liberalium litterarum studiis utr"iusque linguae perfecte eruditus, 111Usarum semper amator, Indiana University Press BLOOMINGTON AND LONDON The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1941. Detail from a wine cup attributed to Pheidippos (ca. Translated with an Introduction by ROBERT B. ![]() |