![]() ![]() Trotters were out, in the winter afternoons, racing light sleighs on National Avenue and Tennessee Street everybody recognized both the trotters and the drivers and again knew them as well on summer evenings, when slim buggies whizzed by in renewals of the snow-timerivalry. ![]() In that town, in those days, all the women who wore silk or velvet knew all the other women who wore silk or velvet, and when there was a new purchase of sealskin, sick people were got to windows to see it go by. Their splendour lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city, but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with children kept a Newfoundland dog. Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916 and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Visitors arrive and leave, sharing their tales with the count who attempts to understand the happenings of the outside world.Īpart from the beauty created by the setting of the Metropol, given the time frame, it is set in, A Gentleman in Moscow also explores the rise of Bolshevism after the end of the 1917 Russian Revolution. ![]() As a result of his interaction with her, the Metropol becomes a world of its own, where the count is able to explore the vast number of rooms and adopts the imaginative capabilities and sense of adventure that Nina provides. ![]() In the hotel, he has meaningful interactions from Emile, the cook with a very short temper, to the very lovely Nina Kulikova, a nine-year old who gives him the pass key to all the rooms in the Hotel, allowing him to create adventures even as she leaves the Hotel. However, he soon realises his sense of isolation and loneliness a few weeks into his stay. He attempts to go about his normal daily routine from visiting the barber to having meals at one of the two restaurants in the Metropol. What better time to read an old thick book than when confined to the luxurious Metropol. In his room, he attempts to read “The Essays of Montaigne” by Michael de Montaigne, a book that belonged to his father, which he had never found the time to read. ![]() During the first few weeks of his stay at the hotel, he attempts to hold his head up high and has no interest in holding any anger or bitterness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Born in Hamburg, Axel now lives with his family in London. He also illustrates the popular Pip and Posy series. ![]() In addition to his picture books, Axel is the illustrator of wonderful novelty and gift books for Macmillan, such as the bestselling The Bedtime Bear, The Tickle Book and Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Axel Scheffler is a star illustrator whose instantly recognisable, warm and witty illustrations have achieved worldwide acclaim and numerous awards. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems, plays and songs and her brilliant live children's shows are always in demand. Her books include Room on the Broom, What the Ladybird Heard and the modern classic The Gruffalo, which has sold over 13.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over sixty languages. Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's best-loved picture books, and was the 2011-2013 UK Children's Laureate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Obviously I’m really honoured to have received awards from the queer community, but I feel like this is a story that applies to a lot of people. “So I feel excited that this is a large mainstream prize. ![]() “This book was nominated for, and has won, a few prizes, and they’ve all been gay prizes, or prizes with a queer lens, and I felt a little weird about that – about why the book was only being thought of as a gay book,” said Machado. Machado said she was “incredibly excited and honoured” to win the Folio prize, which is open to all works of literature, regardless of form, and to English-language writers from around the world. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice measure the emptiness by its small sound.” “I enter into the archive that domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity is both possible and not uncommon, and that it can look something like this,” she writes, as the memoir opens. In the Dream House sets out to address this. Machado, 34, has said that she found it hard to make sense of her own experience, because she had not encountered narratives of queer domestic abuse before. But it is its challenging of memoir form that is even more impressive.” This already makes this book substantial. “This is not often documented in literature. “Machado documents, in great detail, the descent of lives into obsessiveness, possession and, eventually, abuse among the queer community,” he said. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's therefore possible that the guy and his pals tracked the Dyatlovs to get the wallet back and shouted "Come out of the tent and give us our wallet!" to which the Dyatlovs possibly said "Go away" or words to that effect. The motive is that a guy at Serov railway station claimed the Dyatlovs had stolen his wallet and he called the police, but it was just his word against the Dyatlovs so no arrests were made. ![]() Incidentally, can I air a theory of mine which I've been posting around the net for several years, namely that the Dyatlovs were MURDERED? ![]() ![]() ![]() That day, those awful days around it, meld in my mind into a Valium haze, but I remember my surprise, later on, at the wake, when I realised it wasn’t the drugs making Kwame look so different, but the fact it was the first time I’d ever seen him formally dressed. The first time I ever saw Kwame dressed in anything other than sports gear was at Ryan’s funeral. All the boys call him ‘sir’ and his relationship with them is great. Many of the boys he coaches are Afro-Caribbean and he is hard on them, dishing out punishments for lateness or attitude or bad sportsmanship, balancing this zero-tolerance approach with a wicked sense of humour. Ryan always liked and respected him, and as a consequence, so do I. Kwame Johnson is forty-two and has been coaching Ryan’s football squad since Ryan started playing regularly at eight. An extract from ‘The Mother’ by Yvette Edwards ![]() ![]() ![]() They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well incest and assassination were family specialties. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She was married twice, each time to a brother. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. ![]() Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. ![]() ![]() Many became famous for their exploits: Charles Darwin, for example, discovered fossilized seashells high up in the Patagonian Andes that led to the formulation of his theory of evolution, while Che Guevara attempted to lead a revolution in the Bolivian Andes that he hoped would begin to transform the whole of South America. In this book, MacQuarrie walks in the footsteps of men and women who followed their dreams into the very lands that he once dreamed about as a child. Though the tales themselves concerned an imaginary world at the center of the Earth, the images-of “half-naked tribes and powerful beasts… rich, luxuriant vegetation, beautiful women”-stayed with him and became the unconscious lodestar toward which he gravitated as an adult traveler. ![]() MacQuarrie’s ( The Last Days of the Incas, 2007, etc.) love affair with South America began during boyhood when he read the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]() ![]() A filmmaker and writer tells the story of the historical figures and ordinary people who have attempted to “control, adapt to, or explore” the largely wild and untamed Andes cordillera. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s Matías Rye, a struggling writer who runs writing workshops at a local high school and is working on a novel titled The Night Miguel Ardiles, a psychiatrist who loves to blur boundaries with his clients and dreams of being a writer and Pedro Álamo, a writer obsessed with palindromes, anagrams, acrostics, and double-texts, cleverly translated by Hahn and Hernández González: “ Alone, too, by myself, but noble, no regrets. Three characters alternate the narration. ![]() Venezuelan writer Blanco Calderón weaves a labyrinthine study of language, writers, and obsession against a backdrop of rampant femicides and the energy and political crises in contemporary Caracas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his courageous journey north and participation in the underground battle for liberation, Hiram struggles to match his gift with his mission. Struggling with his own longing for freedom, Hiram finds his affiliations tested with Thena, the taciturn old woman who took him in as a child Sophia, a young woman fighting against her fate on the plantation and Hiram’s father who obliquely acknowledges him as a son. Despite this astonishing vision, he cannot remember much about Rose. His power and his memory are major forces that propel Hiram into an adulthood filled with the hypocrisy of slavery, including the requisite playacting that flavors a stew of complex relationships. He travels between worlds, gone but not gone, and sees his mother, Rose, who was sold away when he was a child. When Hiram is nearly killed in a drowning accident, he detects an amazing gift he cannot understand or harness. ![]() Hiram Walker is the son of an enslaved woman and her slave master, owner of a prominent Virginia estate. ![]() |