![]() ![]() ![]() The appendices include an excerpt from Barnabe Riche's "Of Apollonius and Silla," Shakespeare's primary source of inspiration for the play selections from Galen, Plato, and others illustrating Elizabethan attitudes toward gender and sexuality excerptions illuminating contemporary moral discomfort with the theatre, such as Philip Stubbes's "Of Stage-plays and Interludes, with their wickedness" and pieces on music and duelling that illustrate cultural conventions important to the interpretation of Twelfth Night. The diverse and extensive appendices acquaint readers with Shakespeare's sources and contextualize the play within Elizabethan society. This volume includes the text of Twelfth Nightas prepared and annotated by David Swain for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, and is accompanied by the excellent introduction and supplementary materials from the anthology. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Jay is a clinical psychologist who specializes in adult development and in twentysomethings in particular. Your twenties are a time when the things you do - and the things you don't do - will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come. The result is a provocative, poignant read that shows why, far from being an irrelevant downtime, your twenties are a developmental sweetspot that comes only once. ![]() In her psychology practice and her book, The Defining Decade, clinical psychologist Meg Jay suggests that many twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation about what Time magazine calls the " Me Me Me Generation." The rhetoric that "30 is the new 20," she suggests, trivializes what is actually the most transformative period of adult life.ĭrawing from more than twenty years of work with thousands of twentysomething clients and students, Jay weaves science together with compelling, behind-closed-doors stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Baa! Baa! I mean, we were only little lambs and there they all were chewing on our corpses. She’ll always remember us now!ĭaisy: Moo! Isn’t that rather mean? What did this Clarice ever do to you?Īrthur: Well, she didn’t save us from being slaughtered and eaten so as far as we’re concerned she’s a token representative of the entire meat eating part of the human race and she shoulda tried harder. Lambs : No, you have to go baaa! It’s for Silence of the Lambs, not Silence of the Cows.Īrthur: Clarice Starling up there in that bedroom. Lambs : Baa! Baa! Poor white trashhhhh! Baa! Trashhhhh! Baa!ĭaisy (a Quebecois cow with a slight French accent) : What are you all doing?Īrthur (a helpful lamb): We’re implanting a primal memory! Baa! Poor white trashhhh! It’s fun! We’ll be right back after this short break. That doesn’t make it bad, but it does make it disingenuous. This is a movie which pretends to be from the gritty end of American reality but which is as absurd and fantastical as Me Before You or La La Land. It falls apart when you take a minute to consider what the movie is about, what it does, and what reality it’s reflecting, rather than what great performances, what cool cinematography, and so forth. ( The Maltese Falcon would be another example). This is one of those movies which have such an impact that it’s surprising when they just fall apart on you. ![]() ![]() Matthews and his fellow author Mark Ryan had always intended to write a more complex workbook to accompany the original deck and companion book that came out in 2011 but to date have not had an opportunity to do so. In his foreword, Matthews talks about the magical place that the forests and woodlands that act as the background for this deck are. It is a based on the seasons and the Wheel of the Year. The Wildwood Tarot is the creation of Mark Ryan, John Matthews, and Will Worthington. This book was edited by Sara Donaldson (many will recognize her as a member of TABI), and converted to epub and mobi formats by Gavin Pugh. ![]() ![]() I have to add a note here that I might not place in other reviews, and that is because these are names that are recognizable in the Tarot world. With humor and style, she takes us through a year-long journey through the cards. A Year In The Wildwood contains all of the entries Alison wrote for the Wildwood Tarot’s Facebook page. ![]() I was absolutely thrilled to hear that Alison Cross had taken her work on the Wildwood Tarot and turned it into an e-book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The other led back to Paris, the League of the Pink Carnation, and The Orchid Affair. ![]() One fork in the road led to India and Blood Lily. The series hit a crossroads somewhere around Night Jasmine. You may wonder why, if Blood Lily is set in the autumn of 1804, it comes before Orchid Affair, which runs from January to April 1804. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (spring 1803) The Masque of the Black Tulip(spring/summer 1803) The Deception of the Emerald Ring (summer 1803) The Seduction of the Crimson Rose (autumn 1803) Ivy and Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas (Christmas, 1803) ( PDF) The Mischief of the Mistletoe (winter 1803) Away in a Manger: A Mistletoe Bonus Chapter (early 1804) ( PDF) The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (winter 1803/spring 1804)īunny & Biscuits: A Very Dorrington Valentine’s Day (Valentine’s Day 1804) The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (autumn 1804) The Orchid Affair(spring 1804) The Garden Intrigue (summer 1804) The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (spring 1805) The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla (autumn 1806) The Lure of the Moonflower(winter 1807/1808) Here’s my recommended reading order for the Pink Carnation series: ![]() ![]() ![]() In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes vibrantly to life. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. government pitted two companies-the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads-against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. ![]() It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money the enlightened politicians who understood its importance the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed. In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job. In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. ![]() ![]() They were planning to leave, but they kept it dark. If you keep something dark, you keep it secret, and if you are in the dark about something, you don’t know anything about it: We’ll start with ignorance and knowledge. There are many common phrases that exemplify this, and this post will look at some of the most common ones. These quotes, from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, perfectly demonstrate the way darkness and light are used as metaphors in English (and many other languages), with darkness suggesting ignorance, evil and unhappiness and light signifying knowledge, purity and happiness. ![]() ‘In the midst of darkness, light persists.’ ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.’ ![]() ![]() It may have to do with the fact that I’m a cyborg myself. Behind Blue Eyes - Hrbuch-Reihe bei Audible Alle Titel der Reihe gratis streamen Audible-Abo Probemonat jetzt starten. Oh and I love everything that includes cyborgs… ![]() When not spending time in the worlds inside my head and writing about them, I enjoy walking my dogs, playing video games on my Xbox, reading, movies, listening to Gothic and Industrial music. Shadow City was my debut in English in 2019, and since then I’ve published two more series, Behind Blue Eyes and Cyber Squad – with hopefully many more to come! In 2016 I moved to the US and now live in South Carolina. I’ve been working as a novelist full-time ever since and there’s nothing I enjoy more than this job. ![]() I was born in Warsaw, Poland, but have spent most of my life in Munich, Germany, where I attended film school to become a screenwriter.Īfter my professional education, I worked in the German film industry for several years, mostly as a scriptwriter, but I also produced and directed a few short films which were nominated for and won a couple of awards.īeing a huge fan of video games since I can remember, I expanded my field of expertise and worked as a game writer in the German video game business for a while before I made my childhood dream come true by getting my first novel published. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, on the whole, this is a beautifully written and well-observed tale that will take you straight into the Tuscan countryside. This may have been due to the mix of fact and fiction, which at times jarred a little. Though I enjoyed the book, I did find it a little hard to get into at first. ![]() There are photographs too, and while in the Kindle edition these are quite hard to see, Angela’s words make up for any lack of detail. In researching her parents past, she will discover secrets about the war, her parents and herself, which will change her life forever. She travels to the beautiful Tuscan Apennines, where the story unfolds. ![]() ![]() The ‘Now’ parts of the book trace the lives of English Anna, her Italian husband Francesco, and their children, charting the differences and similarities of their lives in contrast to the older generation.Īngela Petch has an eye for the minutiae of life and her writing is crammed with stunning descriptions, bringing the story and her characters vividly into focus. Tuscan Roots: A Tangle of Love and War in the Italian Apennines. Now and Then in Tuscany: Italian JourneysĪ sequel to the author’s first novel, ‘Tuscan Roots’, this volume follows the journey of Giuseppe Starnucci, in the early part of the last century, as he exchanges an unhappy life at a seminary for one travelling with shepherds, herding sheep to new grazing lands near the Tuscan coast. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sense of dark intrigue and strange fantasy evoked by the fairy tale motifs is unfortunately muted by Cokal’s static prose, and the tension between good and evil plays out with little action at a stumbling pace. Thyrla, baroness of the islands and a witch in her own right, will not stand for another adored female in her land and, in an attempt to neutralize the threat, betroths Sanna to her loathsome son, traps her in the castle, and plans to use Sanna’s blood to extend her own life. She is taken for a saint and a maker of miracles by the islands’ toiling residents when the magic she’s just barely controlling begins to leak out, turning white roses red and reshaping their iconic statue of Our Lady of the Sea. ![]() Under the guidance of a sea witch, mermaid Sanna turns her tail into legs and goes ashore to the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands to find any information about her landish mother. ![]() |