The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot by Nancy Henry As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. With its supplementary materials, including a chronology and an extensive section of suggested readings, this Companion is an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike"- Provided by publisher. Chapters address the problems of money, philosophy, religion, politics, gender and science, as they are developed in her novels. From an introduction that traces her originality as a realist novelist, the book moves on to extensive considerations of each of Eliot's novels, of her and her publishing history. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and often original insights into the work of one of the most important writers of the Nineteenth Century. It includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot by George Levine (Editor) Nancy Henry (Editor) "This second edition appears just in time for the 2019 bicentenary of George Eliot's birth.
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For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. Here are Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner, Patricia A. Now thirteen of modern fantasy's finest writers return to Bordertown once again, to tell a new cycle of tales of the city. The city you always knew was there.īordertown was created by Terri Windling, multiple World fantasy Award-winning editor, artist, and writer. A place of hidden magic, flamboyant artists, runaway teenagers, and pagan motorcycle gangs. From the banks of the addictive Mad River to the all-night clublands where young elves and humans fight and play, all the way up to glittering dragon's Tooth Hill, where high society seals itself away from the street-this is no city to trifle with.īordertown. Once a normal American city, now a perilous nexus between the World and returned Elfland. He is extremely determined to do well in it. The theme “determination” also comes up in the book towards the end when sonny is elected to represent his school in the science fair. The theme comes into play throughout the entire book, his expectation is to work in the mine but he doesn’t settle for less, and he follows his dreams when he continues to work on the rockets, improving them constantly. Sonny didn’t want to work in the mine and end up like his father, he didn’t want to lose an eye, or have the health issues like his father. Even after he starts making rockets and they see his potential, his father changes his mind and thinks that he should become an engineer in the mine. Throughout the book, Sonny’s expectations in life is to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a miner. In the book, following your dreams is another theme. (Obviously “animal nitrate” is a play on “amyl nitrite”, a drug used by gay or bisexual men “chase the dragon” from So Young was a slang for smoking heroin.□)Ĥ – Was the second album ever to win Mercury Music Prize in Britain □ (beating, among others, “Walthamstow” by East 17 and “Connected” by Stereo MCs). Brett considered “Animal Nitrate” “a bit throw-away” and the band initially wanted to release “Sleeping Pills” as single instead, but Nude Records' owner Saul Galpern insisted otherwise. Sadly Corinne died in 2006 of liver cancer, she was only 62.□Ģ – Was the fastest-selling debut album at the time in UK - beating Frankie Goes to Hollywood's “Welcome to the Pleasuredome” from almost 10 years earlier.ģ – "Animal Nitrate" was the first Top 10 hit by the band (overall 3rd single after “The Drowners” and “Metal Mickey”), hitting Number 7 in □□ Singles charts. Corinne turned down the band's request to use the full shot of the two naked women and insisted they could only use a head and shoulders close-up of the women to protect their identity. Here are 5 things you may not have known about “Suede”:ġ – The cover photograph was taken by an American photographer Tee Corinne and in its entirety shows a woman kissing an acquaintance in a wheelchair (see my stories for the full picture □). Happy birthday to the first long-player of the Britpop canon that turns 30 today.□ These historical mystery novels draw upon Roe's PhD research, and feature a 14th-century Jewish doctor who is physician to the Bishop of Girona. Her books as Caroline Roe are Remedy for Treason (1998), Cure for a Charlatan (1999), An Antidote for Avarice (1999), Solace for a Sinner (2000), A Potion for a Widow (2001), A Draught for a Dead Man (2002), A Poultice for a Healer (2003), and Consolation for an Exile (2004). They are police procedural novels set around Toronto and featuring the characters of John Sanders, a homicide detective, and Harriet Jeffries, an architectural photographer. Her books as Medora Sale are The Spider Bites (2010), Murder on the Run (1985), Murder in Focus (1989), Murder in a Good Cause (1990), Sleep of the Innocent (1991), Pursued by Shadows (1992), and A Short Cut to Santa Fe (1994). She married the medievalist Harry Roe in 1970 they had one daughter, Anne. Before becoming a full-time writer, she taught at Branksome Hall and also worked in advertising and as a typist, translator, and caseworker. Her PhD research involved religious diversity in the Medieval Era. She received a BA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Medieval Studies from the same university. Caroline Medora Sale was born in Windsor, Ontario. Caroline Medora Sale Roe (born 1943 died November 7, 2021) was a Canadian novelist who wrote detective novels as Medora Sale and historical mystery novels as Caroline Roe. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor-a reformed drug dealer and convict-who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds-two men, two faiths, two communities-that will inspire readers everywhere.Īlbom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.įeeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic-the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. – Robin Hobb, bestselling author of ASSASSIN’S APPRENTICE The reader will be swept up in a world of hard choices, conflicting loyalties and characters you’ll remember for years.” “Nevernight’s plot is like a river in flood. The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us. In her introduction, Wolf offers the following analysis: This pressure leads to unhealthy behaviors by women and a preoccupation with appearance in both sexes, and it compromises the ability of women to be effective in and accepted by society. The basic premise of The Beauty Myth is that as the social power and prominence of women have increased, the pressure they feel to adhere to unrealistic social standards of physical beauty has also grown stronger because of commercial influences on the mass media. It was republished in 2002 by HarperPerennial with a new introduction. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women is a nonfiction book by Naomi Wolf, originally published in 1990 by Chatto & Windus in the UK and William Morrow & Co (1991) in the United States. Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How To Use It On page 22, Ruby is meeting her grandmother for the first time in a long time. This book really gives the reader a mental picture of what’s happening. Although it’s simple, it’s an amazing book. This selection is not challenging to read, it is actually sort of easy. The author compares Ruby’s red converse, to Dorothy’s ruby, red slippers. I like the way the author always compares Ruby’s life to her favorite movie The Wizard of Oz. Just by reading the back cover, I was determined to read this book. The author, Tricia Rayburn does a phenomenal job of pulling the reader in. I couldn’t put the book down! This selection is strong because you can always predict what’s going to happen next, but it’s almost never what you expected. This book is realistic fiction, this didn’t happen, but it’s possible! This book keeps you reading at least it did for me. Ruby has never even heard of email, where in Florida, that’s the only communication device that they use! As Ruby learns how the people at her new school act, she begins to despise the “queen of the school”, Ava Grand. It’s a big change to move from Kansas to Florida. Ruby has lived with her mother all her life, and when Grandma Dottie gets lonely, Ruby and her mother have to move. Ruby’s Slippers by Tricia Rayburn is about a young girl facing the troubles of moving from state to state. |