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Cruel crown series6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The fourth series of the successful drama covers the years from Lord Mountbatten's assassination in 1979 to the ousting of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. That isn't right or fair, particularly when so many of the things being depicted don't represent the truth.' 'In this case, it's dragging up things that happened during very difficult times 25 or 30 years ago without a thought for anyone's feelings. 'This is drama and entertainment for commercial ends being made with no regard to the actual people involved who are having their lives hijacked and exploited,' said one insider. In a series of highly unusual public interventions that demonstrates the depth of concern at the very top of the Royal Family, Palace insiders have lined up to slate the Netflix show. ![]() Netflix's willingness to run down the reputation of the Royals has raised fresh questions among senior family members about Harry and Meghan's decision to sign a multi-million-pound deal with the California-based broadcaster ![]()
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Edgar allan poe books the black cat6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The cat was a beautiful animal, of unusually large size, and entirely black. We had birds, some goldfish, a fine dog, and a cat. Quickly she got for us several pets of the most likeable kind. You will understand the joy I felt to find that my wife shared with me my love for animals. There is something in the love of these animals which speaks directly to the heart of the man who has learned from experience how uncertain and changeable is the love of other men. ![]() When I was a child, I had a natural goodness of soul which led me to love animals - all kinds of animals, but especially those animals we call pets, animals which have learned to live with men and share their homes with them. Tomorrow I die, and today I want to tell the world what happened and thus perhaps free my soul from the horrible weight which lies upon it.īut listen! Listen, and you shall hear how I have been destroyed. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. We present the short story "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allen Poe. ![]()
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The bells by edgar allan poe6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() This is when the story says, “ To the swinging and the ringing of the bells.” This is the sound of someone getting married. Another part where the bells mean the passing of time in someone's life. That also means the narrator is waiting for someone to die. ![]() For instance, the poem says, “Keeping of time/ as he knells.” Means knelling is a bell sound that people play at a sad event or a funeral. There are different ways the narrator describes the bells for different phases. Another quote that means happiness is, “From the molten golden notes.” This shows the brightness and happiness in life. ![]() The quote is, “How they tinkle/ in the icy air of the night.” This quote means each time a bell rings there is another happy moment. The happiness in life, like when you learn something new, or you get a surprise. The next reason this poem is about life is that he happily delivers the poem. The twinkling represents the smiles of the people, another quote from the story is, “On the future how it tells.” This means they promise to stay together forever and they vow to do it with the priest. ![]() Another part where the bells are talking about marriage is when the narrator says, “The swinging and the tinkling of the bells.” This means the joy and happiness and foreverness of marriage. ![]()
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Watership down book6/9/2023 ![]() Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.Ī phenomenal worldwide bestseller, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. ![]() The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for Watership Down includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. ![]()
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13 Night Terrors by D.A. Roach6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With his doctor and newly-met twin, Ray travels to the forgotten village of Yardis, where magic, myth, and corruption are abundant. Ray's life in Midland, MI gets decimated when his parents reveal they are not his real parents and his real father, a king from a secret land hidden in the far north of Canada, is dying and wishes to meet his son. ![]() Ray Cross was born with a genetic disorder, resulting in a fragile body his organs and blood vessels will rupture with any hard impact, so standing up to his best friend's controlling boyfriend could kill him. Ray Cross wasn’t a hero he could die too easily. #NewRelease CROSS by USA TODAY Bestseller #DARoach is #LIVE! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This edition also includes an introduction by preeminent London scholar, Earle Labor, as well as a comprehensive biographical note on London's life and works by scholar and executive coordinator of the Jack London Society, Kenneth K. ![]() ![]() London's narratives in this volume focus on issues of continuing relevance to contemporary readers, including the value of the wilderness, animal rights, socioeconomic oppression, and gender inequity. This volume of London's famed Northland novels also includes an early feminist story "The Night-Born," and a pro-labor story "South of the Slot." These works echo and enrich the themes of The Call of the Wild and White Fang with their unique emphases on the primordial, the instinctual, and the quest for social justice. White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada's Yukon territory, is the story of a wolf-dog hybrid struggling to survive in a human society every bit as brutal as the natural world. A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. ![]()
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Sally rooney new book6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Normal People is a pas de deux between two Irish teenagers, both star students: Marianne, a loner from an affluent, abusive family, and Connell, a popular jock born to a teenage single mother, who works as a cleaning woman in Marianne’s home. ![]() ![]() Written in crisp, elegant prose, with an abiding generosity for their characters, these novels signal the arrival of a formidable talent. While her novels traffic in the thorny complexity of how young people relate both online and offline, as well as the dispiriting economic realities mediating the relationships of a post-recession generation, they are also wise beyond their years. At 28, the Irish-born author of two sensational novels, Conversations With Friends and Normal People, has earned seismic praise, including the mantle, “the Salinger for the Snapchat generation.” When Normal People landed this April, it skyrocketed to viral fame with legions of admirers, who have crowned Rooney a prophet of fiction by, for, and about millennials.īut to characterize Rooney solely as a millennial writer is to undervalue her prodigious gifts-namely, the delicious psychological acuity that makes her novels crackle, and her ability to explore the influence of sociopolitical systems on individuals who alternately suffer and thrive under their weight. If you spend any time on the Internet, you may have heard of Sally Rooney. ![]()
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Three blind mice and other stories6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Her last public appearance was in 1974, at the premier of the movie, Murder on the Orient Express. She traveled around the world in 1922, which would have been quite a feat back then. She once had three plays running simultaneously in London. Agatha could have been an excellent performer as a pianist, but she was much too shy to perform. Since there are so many, just a few will be mentioned here. ![]() He outlines many of those interesting facts. In his research, Curran found a plethora of information about Agatha. Her father did not want her to begin learning to read until age eight, but out of boredom, she taught herself to read by age five. It was an unusual way to be educated for the times. She was born in 1890 in England, where she was home schooled by her American father. What a daunting task to write about the most famous mystery writer, Agatha Christie. ![]()
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![]() He demonstrates how Frederick the Great abandoned this paradigm for a neoclassical vision of history in which sovereign and state transcend time altogether, and how Bismarck believed that the statesman’s duty was to preserve the timeless permanence of the state amid the torrent of historical change. Inspired by the insights of Reinhart Koselleck and François Hartog, two pioneers of the “temporal turn” in historiography, Clark shows how Friedrich Wilhelm rejected the notion of continuity with the past, believing instead that a sovereign must liberate the state from the entanglements of tradition to choose freely among different possible futures. ![]() ![]() Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history-Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler-to look at history through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their regimes embody unique conceptions of time. This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() According to the French Chronicle of Matthew of Paris, the traditionally warm summer of 1311 was followed by four gloomy and rainy summers of 1312-1315. ![]() In the 1310s, Western Europe, judging by the chronicles, experienced a real ecological disaster. Researchers believe that the onset of the Little Ice Age was associated with a slowdown in the current of the Gulf Stream around 1300. The Little Ice Age was preceded by a low climatic optimum (approximately X-XIII centuries) - a period of relatively warm and even weather, mild winters and the absence of severe droughts. In Northern and even Central and Southern Europe: Holland, Germany, Austria, northern Italy in Paris, canals and lakes were frozen. The climate of the 17th and 18th centuries was very different from the climate of our time winters in Europe were much colder. It is the coldest in terms of average annual temperatures over the past two thousand years. Small glacial period - period cooling that took place on Earth during the XIV-XIX centuries. ![]() |