![]() ![]() Wallach does a masterly job at covering the influences of Bell’s upbringing on her personality and life choices without resorting to the discredited methods of psychohistory. ![]() She covers closely her personal metamorphosis from obedient Victorian daughter of an wealthy industrialist to a modern self-determined woman who qualified as what she termed a Person with a capital “P”. Lawrence during the war for helping foment and support Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks and for her collaboration with him to get Faisal placed first on the throne of Syria and later Mesopotamia (aka Iraq).Įven without being Bell’s importance in world shaping, her story his worth experiencing in Wallach’s telling. ![]() Bell is best known for her work with T.E. Bell’s passion for the culture and peoples of the Middle East served the British Empire well for intelligence and liaison work during World War 1, and she had a major impact in setting the path toward Arab self-rule, most notably in the establishment of Iraq and Jordan under monarchies of the Hussein family. ![]() An excellent account of a fascinating woman who was both a product of her times and one who broke new ground for accomplishments in a male dominated world. ![]()
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![]() Published in February 2015, Red Queen was followed up with three sequels, Glass Sword, King’s Cage and War Storm.īrownstone Prods. Brownstone’s Dannah Shinder co-executive produces. Schwartz, who serves as showrunner, executive produces alongside Aveyard. ![]() Husband-and-wife duo Banks and Handelman executive produce via Brownstone. Mare, a fiery young woman born to poverty without powers, is doing the best she can to survive and protect her family when she discovers the unthinkable: She somehow has powers too! This shocking discovery turns our world upside down and catapults our unlikely hero to become the face of a revolution for the oppressed while searching for the truth behind the greatest mystery of all…how she became so powerful in the first place. Red Queen is set in an alternate near-future America where democracy is replaced by a monarchy led by a group of humans with superpowers who rule with an iron fist over those without powers. NBCUniversal's Film Slate Steps Into Spotlight During Company's Upfronts Pitch ![]() ![]() ![]() Woolf does introduce some structure to the flow of the six character narratives. This is a whole different kind of "beach reading." As a result, it's sometimes a bit hard to tell what's going on, where characters are, or when events happen.īut hey, duders, you're reading Virginia Woolf's The Waves. It uses stream-of-consciousness (what an appropriately liquid-named narrative style, eh?) that focuses more on the characters' inner lives than what happens in the big wide world. ![]() The novel follows the lives of six narrators and their friend, Percival, exploring their relationships and personal development from youth to adulthood. Woolf doesn't exactly trade in traditional narratives or style, and The Waves is the most experimental of her works: we hope you're ready to jump into the deep end. Okay, that's not exactly true, but Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel The Waves is heavy on water imagery and light on the kind of plot and action you typically see in a novel. Water, water everywhere and not a plot to drink. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike Strickland, who has a thorough understanding of the Indian people and their culture, Fleete has little knowledge or respect for Indian customs. The narrator assures the reader that both he and his friend Strickland, a policeman and long-time resident of India, and the local doctor Dumoise can corroborate the facts of the story despite Dumoise’s ability to corroborate, his incorrect reading of the facts leads to his misinformed conclusion.įleete, a large “inoffensive man” (241), has come to India to finance some land he inherited from his uncle. This idea helps to inform the remarkable, but true, tale he is about to recount. The narrator suggests that in India, the Englishman’s god yields power to the “Gods and Devils of Asia” (241). An unnamed first-person narrator opens “The Mark of the Beast” with a “native,” or an East Indian proverb, that rhetorically asks whether one knows which gods are strongest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children. ![]() Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. Mem Fox is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloë, happily ever after. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Knopf edition, in English Sir Walter Raleigh (1926 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. ![]() Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Sir Walter Raleigh by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume, 1926, A. 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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]() ![]() He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity. ![]() More positively, he presented Nietzsche's ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the "will to power" was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche's equally profound ideas about sublimation. ![]() Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. ![]() When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. "This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. ![]() ![]() The Dunwich Horror is the legendary core tale of the Cthulhu Mythos and perhaps Lovecraft’s most popular story. Based on a vivid nightmare that Lovecraft experienced, the poem has been described as “a bleak view of human civilization in decline, and explores the mixed sensations of desperation and defiance in a dying society.” The Colour Out Of Space is one of Lovecraft’s best-known tales, a sci-fi/horror classic about a meteorite that crashes in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts and proceeds to deform all vegetation on “the blasted heath” while driving its inhabitants slowly and homicidally insane. Nyarlathotep is the prose poem that marks the first appearance of "The Crawling Chaos", an Outer God in the Cthulu Mythos and one of Lovecraft’s most famous creations. ![]() Lovecraft - the legendary doomed author Stephen King calls “The 20th century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale” - curated and read by award-winning filmmaker Richard Stanley. ![]() Experience three of the best-known stories by H.P. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rundell's vast enthusiasm is almost there in his place, a kind of simulacrum for the man. Rundell's writing is the star of this show: it's sparky and textured, original and alive - if she wrote a novel I'd read it like a shot - but, somehow, Donne the man sort of slips between the floorboards of this biography and never really emerges as a fully-fleshed (ha!) person. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. ![]() 'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain **Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023** **Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023** **Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023** ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the first of four “Complete Walker” books. (1968) The Complete Walker thrust Fletcher into enduring fame with his comprehensive tome on backpacking techniques and equipment.Harvey Butchart did it first through a series of section hikes over 17 years and his identification of routes made it possible for Fletcher to complete the hike. (1968) The Man Who Walked Through Time chronicles his 1963 walk through Grand Canyon National Park, the first person to do this hike in one through hike.(1964) The Thousand Mile Summer recounts Fletcher’s six month hike through California’s eastern area through deserts and mountains in 1958. ![]() Perhaps someday I will review some of them. Here is a listing of all his books in chronological order. The one book I did not read is The Winds of Mara, an account of the author’s time spent in Kenya’s Mara Animal Preserve observing wildlife, land, people and his reflection of what is good and bad, and his thoughts for the future. Fletcher wrote 10 books in his lifetime of which I have read 9 of them several times. WHY?īackground Photo by John Sexton on Wikipediaįirst, let’s start with a little background. I did buy it for a friend, but will pass on reading it myself. I have never heard of the author but the reviews have generally been very good. You can purchase the book from Amazon as a Kindle version for $9.99 or paperback for $18.53. Colin Fletcher is known as the “Father of Backpacking” and Robert Wehman has just published the only biography of the reclusive man. ![]() |