5/11/2023 0 Comments La reine margot book![]() ![]() This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is richly annotated. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world's greatest and best-loved story-tellers. La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Staking all on love and losing, she remains defiant in defeat. Young Henry of Navarre has both in abundance, but he has more: he has his Queen, the beautiful, cultured Margot. It takes an iron nerve and a cool head to survive. Or perhaps of Catherine de Medicis, one of history's great monsters? Or the ambitious Duke de Guise? Or the Duke d'Anjou, soon to be the reluctant King of Poland? The answer will be found in the secret passageways of the Louvre and the torture chamber of the fortress of Vincennes. ![]() Paris is awash with the blood of Huguenots slaughtered by order of Charles IX. `Dear sister!' said Charles IX, `there is blood on your sleeve!' `And what consequence is that, Sire,' said Marguerite, `if I have a smile upon my lips?' Saint Bartholomew's Day 1572. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Author of the island of dr moreau![]() ![]() Wells was creating new worlds for which he would become known as one of the founding fathers of the science fiction genre. With The Island of Doctor Moreau published just one year after his first novel, The Time Machine, H.G. Originally published in 1896, Wells?s story reflects the scientific controversies disrupting the societal norm in the late 1800s, including increased opposition to animal vivisection and growing discussion of Darwinism and the degeneration of the human race. ![]() While gene-splicing and bioengineering are common practices today, Wells?s haunting vision raised ethical questions more than a century before our time. When Edward Prendick is rescued from a shipwreck, he is left on a nearby island and soon discovers the home of the depraved Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist conducting unspeakable animal experiments with hideous, human-like results. Wells a classic work of early science fiction that remains one of the author?s most disturbing and unforgettable novels. ![]() This year marks the 125th anniversary of the first publication of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not without his critics, the often-outspoken Peterson rails against the world, from our inability to tell the absolute truth to our innate need to embrace high risk.ĭeclaring himself a “classic British liberal”, the author eschews conventional political or social convention to deliver a self-help guide like virtually no other, founded on a dynamic personal philosophy drawn from both academia and experience. ![]() At its heart, this is a polemic of personal responsibility, twelve rules that form the scaffolding of profound growth.Įach rule is accompanied by vivid and often footnoted example, setting his thinking in context the sum is a comprehensive, sometimes almost brutal, assault on everyday assumption. Peterson, influential clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, our true aim should be meaning – not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence.ġ2 Rules for Life is a manifesto of personal change, a handbook to rewire our kneejerk beliefs and concepts of reward and truth. ![]() ![]() For while the city’s god is most certainly dead, something is awakening in Voortyashtan. ![]() The truth is that the general has been pressed into service one last time, dispatched to investigate a discovery. At least, it makes the perfect cover story. So it makes perfect sense that General Turyin Mulaghesh - foul-mouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov, rumored war criminal, ally of an embattled Prime Minister - has been exiled there to count down the days until she can draw her pension and be forgotten. And to its new military occupiers, the once-powerful capital is a wasteland of sectarian violence and bloody uprisings. ![]() You can read this before City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2) written by Robert Jackson Bennett which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Riley sager book to movie![]() ![]() ![]() Wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy’s doorstep. Is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, Recall the events of that night the past is in the past. She has aĬaring almost-fiancé, Jeff a popular baking blog a beautifulĪpartment and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who Well-maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. Put their nightmares behind them, and, with that, one another. Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and Up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn and now Lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout’s knife Sam, who went Of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to-a group ![]() Student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and cameīack alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Ignite me pages![]() This was originally meant to be the final book, but the author decided to expand things by another three books which is a great decision since there is still a lot of room for growth. The last half is more plot-driven, with a dramatic (if somewhat abrupt) finale that is rife with intensity and much more action-oriented than this series usually is. ![]() ![]() There are some shocking shifts in the romance portion, with Juliette making some surprising, satisfying new decisions that have been alluded to (and basically, in the making) since book one. The fighting, the drama, Kenji and everything about him and his thoughts on all the situations, it was just utterly entertaining with lots of great dialogue. I like the first half more than the second half. Juliette no longer wallows in angst (or at least less than she did in book 2) and I notice the sort of poetic writing has also receded in favor of more tight and eventful plotting. The audiobook and narration continue to be effective. ![]() ![]() I flew through this book, it’s a vast improvement over the second though I was pretty much in a consistently obsessed zone through books 1-3, they all kind of flow seamlessly together and are ideal for marathoning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, in this bicentennial edition of The Annotated Brothers Grimm, Maria Tatar presents these timeless stories in a sumptuous and visually powerful format that helps reshape our understanding of the Brothers Grimm.ĭrawing from the final authoritative version in the mid-nineteenth century, Tatar, an internationally recognized scholar in the field of folklore and children’s literature, has translated and provided commentary for more than fifty Grimm stories, judiciously selecting tales that resonate with modern audiences and reveal the broad thematic range of the Grimm canon. ![]() Endlessly recast and reimagined in poetry and prose, on the screen and onstage, these stories are forever etched in our imagination. Of all of the rich fairy-tale collections that exist in countries throughout the world, few are better known than those gathered almost two centuries ago by a pair of German brothers-Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm-in their Children’s Stories and Household Tales, first published in 1812. Byatt, from the introduction to The Annotated Brothers Grimm ![]() "This is the book I wanted as a child and didn’t have, the book I’d have liked both to give to my children and to keep for myself, the book I shall give my grandchildren." -A. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Hannibal by Philip Freeman![]() He was a practiced statesman, a skilled diplomat, and a man deeply devoted to his family and country. ![]() But Hannibal was much more than just a great general. As a commander in war, Hannibal has few equals in history and has long been held as a model of strategic and tactical genius. As a military leader, like Alexander the Great before him and Julius Caesar after, he understood the hearts of men and had an uncanny ability to read the unseen weaknesses of his enemy. As a boy and then a man, his self-discipline and determination were legendary. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory, win battle after battle until he held the very fate of Rome within his grasp? Hannibal appeals to many as the ultimate underdog-a Carthaginian David against the Goliath of Rome-but it wasn't just his genius on the battlefield that set him apart. ![]() Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Paternus series![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It will switch between Fi and Zeke's 'will they, won't they' relationship that's intertwined with a huge war dog called Mol and an overtly British and loving uncle - and also the Order of the Bull presenting what is simmering behind the gaze of the world with reference to the Gods of myths and legends who may very well have to re-wage a war that's been on and off for centuries. This section, for the first 120 or so pages is what some readers have difficulty with. It starts off pretty slow, almost like Ashton is trying to find his voice. It could be described as brutal urban fantasy, combined with a small amount of YA elements and mixed with all the demons, Gods, and mythological creatures you were too lazy to research at school. ![]() Written in third-person present tense, Paternus often reads more like a film script than a novel. Like many, I found out about Ashton and Paternus by following 2016's Self Published Fantasy Blog Off where this book was awarded third place by the panel of recognised and influential bloggers. I would like to thank Dyrk Ashton and Paternus Books Media for the opportunity. I received a review copy of Paternus in exchange for an honest review. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Charlotte gray novel![]() ![]() She had to write in secret because she was skewering her haughty employers and her peremptory pupils on the page. Leaning on the desk’s writing slope (which was decadently lined in pink velvet), Anne could go on with her novel. I imagine she must have made her excuses in the evenings, and escaped the drawing room, where she had to do the boring bits of her pupils’ sewing, and often felt awkward and humiliated – excluded from the conversation because she was not considered a lady, yet not allowed to sit with the servants either, because governesses had to be something of a lady, or how could they teach their pupils to be ladies?Īnne must have stolen away to her room and pulled out her small, portable writing desk. A nne Brontë started writing her first novel some time between 18 while she was working as a governess for the Robinson family, at Thorp Green near York. ![]() |