![]() ![]() The Elizabeth holds many powerful cards, she's also hiding damaging secrets about her past and her provenance that could prove to be her undoing. Vowing to do whatever it takes to make her husband's reign a success, Elizabeth endears herself to the British people, and prevents the former king and his brazen bride from ever again setting foot in Buckingham Palace. Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated, determined to marry his divorced, American mistress Mrs Simpson. But it's no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the "Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth-"the queen mother"-shows a warm, smiling face to the world. If you love Jennifer Robson or The Crown you will love New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper's novel about Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.ġ939. ![]()
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![]() ![]() have boldly taken on these concepts with a loving hand, in the process telling a fresh and crackling fun yarn full of mystery, suspense and majestic power - all with an eye on helping establish Kirby's creations as a vital part of the Marvel Universe once and for all. ![]() Flash forward to 2006: Superstar creators Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr. More than thirty-five years ago, comics legend Jack "The King" Kirby returned to the House of Ideas with perhaps his biggest idea of all: the universe of the Eternals! Their creation was the result of Kirby's ceaseless curiosity about the origin of man and his mythologies - but like many of the King's concepts, it was definitely ahead of its time. ![]() "An intriguing plot and amazing visuals.one of the most entertaining and exciting Marvel titles I've had the pleasure to read in a long while." - Kelvin Green, ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem is frequently described as a masculine or heroic epic, especially compared with the Odyssey. Given widespread illiteracy, audiences were more likely to have heard the poem than read it it was performed by professional reciters of Homer known as rhapsodes.Ĭritical themes in the poem include kleos (glory), pride, fate and wrath. Homer's authorship was infrequently questioned in antiquity, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently and that the stories formed as part of a long oral tradition. The Iliad, and the Odyssey, were likely written down in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects, probably around the late 8th or early 7th century BC. The Iliad is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature. In particular, it depicts a fierce quarrel between King Agamemnon and a celebrated warrior, Achilles. Set towards the end of the Trojan War, a ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states, the poem depicts significant events in the siege's final weeks. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. The Iliad ( / ˈ ɪ l i ə d/ Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás, Attic Greek: "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The drowning dog, Rowf, regains consciousness in his pen when his neighbor, a fox terrier named Snitter, wakes him up by saying something like "Rowf? They've taken away all the rhododendrons and replaced them with maggots." Snitter has received experimental brain surgery, leaving him with a "rakish" bandage cap, periodic nightmarish fits, and the belief that either everything is happening inside his own head or that everything he imagines comes true in the world. Business as usual at the Animal Research Scientific and Experimental (ARSE) complex situated in a national park in the Lake District in England in The Plague Dogs (1977) by Richard Adams. ![]() Boycott discuss a monkey who is to be indefinitely subjected to sensory deprivation in a cylinder. After detachedly agreeing on the proper time at which to fish the dog out of the tank, Mr. Canine Spartacus and Fool in the Lake District?Ī dog drowning in a tank full of water is pulled out by researchers just in time to be revived in order to undergo future such "experiments" to determine how long he can swim before drowning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's no denying the smoldering fire between them-and trying to put it out would be the greatest folly of all. But the harder she tries to manage the stubborn rake, the harder it is to ignore his seductive charm and raw magnetism. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of Londons premier pleasure garden, Hartes Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can. In spite of her lack of theatrical experience-and her fiery clashes with Asa-Eve is determined to turn Harte's Folly into a smashing success. ![]() He's not about to let an aristocratic woman boss him around. As the garden's larger-than-life owner, he's already dealing with self-centered sopranos and temperamental tenors. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London's premier pleasure garden, Harte's Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can't be controlled.īawdy and bold, Asa Makepeace doesn't have time for a penny-pinching prude like Eve. Prim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother's investment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whittaker Chambers called it “a massive tract for the times” when he reviewed the book for National Review in 1957, the year “Atlas Shrugged” was published and before it gained cult status. Between little snippets of action, there’s a whole lot of sermonizing. It takes more than 1,000 pages to tell the tale. ![]() They reconvene in a sort of commune hidden in the Rocky Mountains. ![]() It’s a quiet strike, with the producers disappearing one by one. Ongoing national emergencies declared by a complicit government give looters the excuse to siphon off the producers’ valuable contributions until the producers decide to go on strike. Her “looters” are pretty much everyone else. The World Isn’t Simply ‘Producers’ and ‘Looters’Īyn Rand’s magnum opus is a morality tale about the conflict between the heroic “producers” and the villainous “looters.” Rand’s “producers” are geniuses who are titans of industry and academia. However, not all books that cause the reader to think about “big ideas” will necessarily lead them in a good direction. ![]() ![]() ![]() What remains is only a disjointed fragment" (Hornstein, 221). Convinced of the sinfulness of his creative work, he destroyed the manuscripts of the second part of Dead Souls. In 1848, after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he felt confirmed in his belief that he was eternally damned. In response to the success of Dead Souls, Gogol began work on a second volume, and "while working on this continuation he began to show signs of religious obsession. A satirical story of bureaucracy and serfdom, the novel was extremely popular, as it was interpreted as an obvious condemnation of feudalism. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of the first complete English translation of the Russian novelist’s unfinished masterwork, “the first novel from which the world began to form its ideas of 19th-century Russia” (Hornstein, 139).įirst published in 1842 in Russian, Gogol's Dead Souls is now widely regarded as the foundation of the Realist movement in Russia. Octavo, original burgundy cloth gilt, patterned endpapers. THE FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF GOGOL’S DEAD SOULS, 1886 ![]() ![]() ![]() His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people". In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. America's first great publicist, he was consciously trying to create a new American archetype. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. ![]() ![]() Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. It is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation and it belongs to us all.ĭrawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. Black and British is vivid confirmation that black history can no longer be kept separate and marginalized. This edition, fully revised and updated, features a new chapter encompassing the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, events which put black British history at the center of urgent national debate. In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. ![]() Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' – Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times ' comprehensive and important history of black Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please see extended rules for appropriate alternative subreddits, like /r/suggestmeabook, /r/whatsthatbook, etc. ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. 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