![]() ![]() ![]() Sold into a kind of canine slavery as an Alaskan sled dog, Buck ends up in the Yukon of the 1890s Klondike gold rush, a milieu familiar to the writer. When he is stolen by his master's gardener to settle some gambling debts, Buck passes through a sequence of owners representing the highs and lows of humanity. ![]() The reader discovers Buck, a domesticated prize dog, as the effete pet of a Californian judge. London's mythical creature became his answer to the complex challenges of modernity. He was inspired to embark on his dog story as a means to explore what he saw as the essence of human nature in response to a wave of calls to American youth urging a new start for the turn-of-the-century generation. A devotee of Kipling's Jungle Book, London found his literary voice writing about a dog that learns to live at the limit of civilisation. To George Orwell, he was "an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been". London is the archetype of the American writer as primeval hero, the forerunner of Hemingway, Dos Passos, Kerouac and possibly Hunter S Thompson. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Can Olivia give up the prestigious match her father has arranged with a wealthy marquess in order to marry a lowly knight like Aldric? And can Aldric move beyond his past mistakes to embrace love again? When loyalties are tested, they’re thrust into danger that could cost them their love and their lives. When Lord Pitt throws her in the dungeon and threatens to hang her for stealing, Aldric conceives a plot to save Olivia’s life-betrothal to him. He has his hands full attempting to keep Lady Olivia out of trouble. ![]() As Lord Pitt’s commander, Sir Aldric is in charge of the beautiful but feisty new prisoner. She’ll save her sister at any cost and do whatever her father asks-even if that means obeying his order to steal a sacred relic from her captor. Loyalty to family means everything to Olivia. In gaining their freedom, will they lose what matters most? When Lady Olivia’s castle is besieged, she and her sister are taken captive and held for ransom by her father’s enemy, Lord Pitt. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Kiss me, Kate,” Julia tells Streep, leaning in, and she spits in his face. Their scenes together are the Shakespearean equivalent of Tyson versus Holyfield-they tear into each other, pulling, scratching, speechifying. ![]() By the end, though, you’ll be thinking at least as much about Raul Julia, the Puerto Rican dynamo who played Petruchio, her tamer. You’ll sit at a monitor and watch one of the great stage performances by Meryl Streep, as Katherine the shrew, in an unruly strawberry-red wig. Ask for “The Taming of the Shrew,” from the summer of 1978, at the Delacorte. You’ll need an appointment at the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive. If you have a free afternoon in New York City, go to the Library for the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center, and take the elevator up to the third floor. ![]() ![]() (5) HIGH-GRADE UNREAD 1970s Magnum Easy Eye Gothic PB Lot2. Will come in a brand-new, acid-free paperback bag.SHIPPING: FREE via USPS Media Mail.** See all my recent gothic romance/horror pb listings:1. NOT ex-library NOT remaindered NOT taped/laminated. Mild shelf wear to edges and corners with some rubbing and spotting on rear panel no tears, chips, or creases. ![]() Smooth bright wrapper with great color and no fading on spine. No interior writing/markings, with original red publisher stain (apt color). A few thin reading creases on spine and a very slight lean, otherwise a quite clean copy. ![]() This book is the true first edition of the text (a paperback original), and stated first printing (1972) with no further printings referenced.CONDITION: VERY GOOD. DESCRIPTION: A scarce copy of the Avon "Satanic Gothic" novel. ![]() ![]() Within two hours, Scott's troops had overrun the castle. ![]() infantry attacked, scaling the rocky summit with ladders and pickaxes early the next morning. Antonio López de Santa Anna and his 15,000 troops unsure of his ultimate plans, Scott ordered part of his force to demonstrate south and southeast of the capital while his artillery began to hammer at Chapultepec. On 12 September, in order to keep Mexican commander Gen. Scott decided to storm Chapultepec first. Just southwest of the city, on a 200‐foot‐high hill, the castle of Chapultepec commanded key causeways and was the site of a military college. The Mexican capital was built in an ancient lake bed and could only be approached on raised causeways that passed through sizable gateways into the walled city. ![]() forces had subdued Upper California, and Maj. Chapultepec, Battle of, and Capture of Mexico City (1847).By 12 September 1847, the Mexican War was almost over the Americans had been victorious in every major engagement, New Mexico had surrendered, U.S. ![]() ![]() If you decide to read Shinigami first, it will contain spoilers for Kogitsune.Ĭontent warnings for murder, death, slavery, abduction, abandonment, human trafficking, mention of a plague, self-harm, depression, child abuse, fixed marriages, and incest. ![]() The little kitsune’s story may take place in the future but it will not spoil Shinigami. I strongly recommend you read Kogitsune first. Kogitsune is about a young fox god (called a kitsune in Japanese mythology) and his childhood friend, and it’s a retelling of Kokaji, a famous Noh play. It is set almost three hundred years before the events in Kogitsune-the first story-published in October 2018. ![]() However, none of these love stories are written as “romance,” so beware. That means the Takamagahara Monogatari series depicts love stories between two men. I wrote the stories as “historical fantasy,” with influences from Japanese mythology and folklore, and combined them with my love for BL and Yaoi. This series is a collection of stories set in medieval Japan, in the Nara (AD 710 to 794) and Heian (AD 794 to 1185) eras. Dear Reader, welcome to the Takamagahara Monogatari. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even with the help of the witch Laksha, Granuaile may be facing a crushing defeat.Īs the trio of Druids deals with pestilence-spreading demons, bacon-loving yeti, fierce flying foxes, and frenzied Fae, they're hoping that this time, three's a charm. Granuaile faces a great challenge: to exorcise a sorcerer's spirit that is possessing her father in India. But Atticus isn't the only one with daddy issues. Norse god Loki - or merely a pain in the arse. For Atticus, the jury's still out on whether the wily old coot will be an asset in the epic battle with the Between busting Atticus's chops and trying to fathom a cell phone, Owen must also learn English. ![]() ![]() What's more, Atticus has defrosted an archdruid frozen in time long ago, a father figure (of sorts) who now goes by the modern equivalent of his old Irish name: Owen Kennedy.Ītticus takes pleasure in the role reversal, as the student is now the teacher. "Funny, enty of action, humor, and mythology." - Booklist (Starred Review)Ītticus's apprentice Granuaile is at last a full Druid herself. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the seventh book in The Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O'Sullivan and his apprentice Granuaile take on an ancient plague-summoning demon and confront a rebellion of the Fae in Tír na nóg. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in the 1950s, Wells's neglected novel The World Set Free describes a conflict so horrific that it actually is the war that ends war. Wells imagined a war that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in a utopia of enlightened world government. Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I's mass slaughter and long before World War II's mushroom cloud finale, H. Wells imagines a war "to end all wars" that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia. In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. ![]() ![]() Have you had encounters with animals - octopuses or otherwise - who demonstrated surprising levels of intelligence, emotional or otherwise? Have you felt “seen” by an animal or felt a relationship with an animal deepen upon earning their trust? ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Show More - one that Will loves, the other that he is forced to marry. If it hadn't been for the language, I would have gone 4 stars, but as it is can only give this novel 3.5 stars. I found that when the characters lapsed into period language, the entire momentum of the narrative came to a halt. ![]() Unfortunately, Harper falls into the trap of attempting quasi-period speech and her efforts fall flat. In the end, Shakespeare chooses to live in London and to write with his love, but he never really seems to acknowledge the harm he has done to both of the women in his life.Īt heart, this novel is a love story, and it succeeds as such. His efforts to write while earning enough to support his growing family are complicated by the complex political situation that thrives on suspicion and uncertainty. Will Shakespeare is presented as a flawed man first, undeniable genius second. Show More delighted with her willingness to accept the poor behavior meted out by her true love, though the author did do a good job capturing the duality of Anne's feelings of love and hate. ![]() |