6/29/2023 0 Comments Under major domo minor![]() ![]() As an element of the novel’s quaint, breezily ludicrous backdrop, the conflict serves to illustrate the bravado and relish with which DeWitt (pictured) conjures and populates a universe on his own non‑negotiable terms. But who is fighting whom, and why, will remain a mystery, for this is Olde Europe, where they indulge in convoluted and meaningless battles and eat pork knuckle served in nettle sauce, and frankly, that is all we need to know. ![]() Instead, and more interestingly, they are specimens of flawed but game humanity, baffled souls struggling in a Petri dish, oddly touching to watch.įrom a bedroom in the Castle Von Aux, where he has taken on the baroquely titled job of undermajordomo, the young Lucien Minor, AKA Lucy, observes the local war by telescope. DeWitt’s characters are never either truly good or fully bad. ![]() In Undermajordomo Minor, his rickety, occasionally shambolic but engaging new flight of fancy, he riffs on the folk tale, transporting the reader into a gothic Europe which, like its California-set predecessor, is not only free of morals and moralising but positively allergic to the very thought of them. In the much-loved Booker-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers, he memorably reinvented the western in a poignant comic drama of greed, grit and ruthlessness starring a pair of contract killers. The Canadian writer Patrick deWitt has nerve. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Undersong audre lorde![]() ![]() Throughout the 1960s Lorde published her poetry in various black literary magazines, and from 1966 to 1968 she was the head librarian at Town School Library in New York City. In 1962 she married attorney Edward Ashley Rollins, with whom she had two children. Lorde worked as a young adult librarian at the public library in Mount Vernon, New York, until 1963. She went on to study library science at Columbia University and graduated with a master's degree in 1961. She attended Hunter College, graduating in 1959 with a bachelor's degree. In high school Lorde was literary editor of the school's arts magazine and published one of her poems in Seventeen. Her parents, Frederic Byron Lorde and Linda Belmar Lorde, were immigrants from the Caribbean country of Grenada Lorde was educated at Catholic schools. Her writing is largely autobiographical in content and frankly addresses accepted notions of race, femininity, and personal identity in late-twentieth-century America. Deeply influenced by the marginalization she experienced as a black lesbian, Lorde wrote in order to give a voice to those disenfranchised by racism, sexism, and homophobia. Lorde is admired for her passionate, candid, often confrontational poetry and prose. ![]() (Full name Audre Geraldine Lorde) American poet, novelist, memoirist, and essayist.įor additional information on Lorde's career, see Black Literature Criticism, Ed. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Flying Saucers by C.G. Jung![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, "a modern myth. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. He began his research, as Hynek and any good scientist would, by examining the cases first hand. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by `visions,' by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others."-C. Jung was probably sick to death of hearing all the buzz in the early 50's about flying saucers and decided to discover the psychological underpinnings of what he saw as a form of mass hysteria. Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets. ![]() ![]() More stereotypical of his time, it is implied Lord Godolphin is put off by what he’s heard of Dona’s behavior in London, and what he sees before him. ![]() It is in this condition that she meets her distant neighbor (for her house is very secluded along a river) named Lord Godolphin. She encourages the children to play in the mud, which blows their little citified minds, and sticks flowers in her uncombed hair. In Cornwall, Dona enjoys laying about, eating unwashed grapes, and not wearing shoes. ![]() She gathers up her children and their nursemaid and flees to her husband’s country home in Cornwall - and tells her husband he can’t come. Instead of feeling the thrill she was looking for, Dona is ashamed. And one night, she puts on her husband’s best friend’s pants - and how did she get access to those pants, we’re wondering - and holds up the carriage of an elderly lady. Dona teases too hard, she’s quite mean, gets bored easily, and is impertinent to men in particular. What a great thrill her husband gets out of the gossip that circulates as a result. Out of step with the times, Dona’s husband regularly takes her to a pub typically frequented by men and ladies of the night. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The leftovers novel![]() When he's not looking, Evie takes a swig from the bottle. The trio rides in silence.Evie arrives back at home and gives the water she collected to her twin brother Michael, who pours it into a set of test tubes. ![]() Despite a sign prohibiting water removal, Evie fills up her own water bottle before hopping in the car with the girls. Goodheart, who is collecting water specimens. Evie strikes up a flirtatious conversation with a man named Dr. Another woman picks up the infant and carries it away.Years later, Evangeline Murphy and her two friends Violet and Taylor, jump into the same lake. ![]() She saves the child, but is bitten herself the wound quickly becomes infected, and the woman dies with the baby in her arms on the shore of a small lake. While the woman gathers food, a snake approaches her baby. Alone with her infant, she sees an eagle flying towards a plume of smoke on the horizon. The woman goes into labor and delivers her baby. ![]() Moments later, she watches helplessly as an earthquake demolishes the cave, crushing those within. Written by Damon Lindelof & Jaqueline HoytDirected by Mimi LederA pregnant woman exits a cave crowded with sleeping bodies. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Only One Woof by James Herriot![]() ![]() 175,000 first printing $50,000 ad/promo first serial rights to Redbook BOMC selection.Ĭopyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. ![]() ivot editovat editovat zdroj Narodil se 3. února 1995 Thirlby u Thirsku) byl britský veteriná a spisovatel, který proslul sérií knih o svém ivot veterináe a psobení u RAF za druhé svtové války. Although Barrett's humans are stiff and unexpressive, his full-color paintings of animals and of the unspoiled, serene English countryside are simply wonderful. James Herriot, obanským jménem James Alfred Wight ( 3. Only one woof by Herriot, James Barrett, Peter, 1935-Publication date 1985 Topics Sheep dogs, Farm life. And that, Herriot declares, was the only time Gyp felt it necessary to give voice. Only one woof Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Gyp watches intently and, as his brother guides the last of his flock into the pen, the soundless dog barks a single woof, before running to join Sweep in lusty play as in their puppy days. A year later, the Wilkinses take Gyp to a sheepdog trial where Sweep is performing admirably. Wilkins, sell Sweep to a farmer but keep Gyp becauseas they tell the authorhe has never once barked. Herriot's understated narrative stars Gyp and Sweep, sheepdog brothers with an extraordinary love for each other. This is the British veterinarian's second book for children and surely destined to join all his stories on bestseller lists. ![]() ![]() In one way, Christopher Robin turned out to be more famous than his father, though he became uncomfortable with his fame as he got older, preferring to avoid the literary limelight and run a bookshop in Dartmouth. After that, in spite of enthusiastic demand, Milne declined to write any more children's stories as he felt that, with his son growing up, they would now only be copies based on a memory. More poems followed in Now We Are Six (1927) and Pooh returned in The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Observations of little Christopher led Milne to produce a book of children's poetry, When We Were Very Young, in 1924, and in 1926 the seminal Winnie-the-Pooh. ![]() In the course of two decades he fought in the First World War, wrote some 18 plays and three novels, and fathered a son, Christopher Robin Milne, in 1920 (although he described the baby as being more his wife's work than his own!). He joined the staff of Punch in 1906, and became Assistant Editor. ![]() Writing was very much the dominant feature of A.A. Pooh he saw as a pleasant sideline to his main career as a playwright and regular scribe for the satirical literary magazine, Punch. ![]() Milne grew up in a school - his parents ran Henley House in Kilburn, for young boys - but never intended to be a children's writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() His face is familiar to all, yet in reality very little is known about the man behind the masterpieces. His fame stems not only from his plays - performed everywhere from school halls to the world's most illustrious theatres - but also from his enigmatic persona. ![]() In this exquisitely illustrated new edition, the age of Shakespeare is vividly evoked through full-colour paintings, portraits, documents and photographs.Įver since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has remained centre stage. ![]() This exquisitely illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling journey through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship.īill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare pairs the most celebrated playwright in history with one of the most popular writers in the English language today. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The spook house ambrose bierce![]() ![]() Bierce's characters - possessed poets, shabby aristocrats, grimy professional men, revived corpses, haunted malefactors - live in a spare, perverse world. ![]() You will also find some less familiar, but equally fascinating stories and pieces not available elsewhere, including "Visions of the Night," in which Bierce gives us a rationale for his "reverse holiness" and the surrealistic morality that permeates these writings. In this volume you will come across a number of old favorites: "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "An Adventure at Brownville," and such classics as "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot," "The Damned Thing," and "Moonlit Road," a minor masterpiece in which events of the story are told from three different points of view, including that of the victim as spoken through a medium. These are unusual constructions of terror and grim irony, reminiscent of Poe, the Gothic novel, and the Romantic short story, but having the unmistakable individual stamp of a man who knew first-hand something of the fears and specters which haunt men. Morbid, cynical, eerie, they take you to a twilight region of flesh and spirit - and into the darkest recesses of the human mind. ![]() This volume contains 24 of Bierce's best tales of the unknown. ![]() ![]() ![]() If in doubt, we will always beĬautious, and preserve the original spelling.
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