![]() ![]() ![]() His Spanish residence resulted in a profound interest in Moorish culture, the first fruit of which was THE ALHAMBRA (1832), a volume of stories and sketches based on Spanish legends. " - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. Irving's work laid the foundation for the writings of William Austin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and others. professional writers, Irving is an important link in the transfer of the stories of German Romanticism to U.S. edition published in Philadelphia by Carey and Lea in 1832. The last of Irving's collections of sketches and stories published under his pen name Geoffrey Crayon includes nine supernatural tales: "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer," "Legend of Prince Ahmed Al Kamel or, The Pilgrim of Love," "Legend of the Moor's Legacy," "Governor Manco and the Soldier," "Legend of the Two Discreet Statues," "The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier," "The Adventure of the Mason" (marginal), "Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra," and "Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa." This Colburn and Bentley edition precedes the first U.S. vi viii 4-333 4-299, original blue boards, brown paper shelf back, printed paper labels affixed to spine panels, all edges untrimmed. ![]() London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1832. ![]()
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![]() The next time they met, Hussein would fall headlong in love with the athletic, outspoken daughter of his longtime friend. Widely admired in the Arab world as a voice of moderation, and for his direct lineage to the prophet Muhammad, Hussein would soon become the world's most eligible bachelor after the tragic death of his wife. Two years later, while visiting her father in Jordan, she was casually introduced on the airport runway to King Hussein. Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation.Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman class at Princeton to accept women, graduating in 1974 with a degree in architecture and urban planning. ![]() ![]() ![]() So I say this to a vanishingly small subset of you: If you've ever found yourself walking out of an Marvel movie and said to yourself, "I liked it. Looking for street-level angst? Cosmic sweep? Paranoid thrillers? Mystic mumbo-jumbo? Sitcom satires? Gods and monsters? Coming-of-age dramas? Subatomic shenanigans? Afro-futurist utopias? Whatever the hell Eternals was supposed to be? The MCU has something for you.īut maybe, after all these years, you find that your own very particular Marvel itch remains somehow unscratched. And while critics can and do bemoan the surface similarities these disparate properties tend to share, the strength of the MCU remains how much variation it manages to offer up in tone, scope, stakes and subject matter. We're neck-deep into Phase 5 now, after all we've had dozens of movies and streaming series and one-off specials. What, in your mind, is the Marvel Cinematic Universe still missing? ![]() L to R: Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Drax (Dave Bautista), Quill (Chris Pratt) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) go for a walk in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it’s Bob’s job to make sure Persephone doesn’t cause an international incident. Bob Howard used to fix computers for the Laundry - the branch of the British Secret Service that deals with. So when Ray Schiller-an American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the ill-becomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministries and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. Internet Archive logo A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building faade. 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Elspeth King mentioned that a book listing all the sites in Scotland related to the life of William Wallace had never been published this inspired Ross to write On the Trail of William Wallace, that was published in 1999 by the Edinburgh-based Luath Press. ![]() In the mid-1990s, during a lecture at the University of Glasgow that Ross was attending, Dr. ![]() Ross died on 2 January 2010 in his home in East Kilbride due to a heart attack. ![]() ![]() Ross was twice divorced and had a daughter named Kimberley, born in 1987. ![]() ![]() ![]() If only the show burrowed into that questing, determined personality more. “Where is love?” is a genuine question, a both sweet-voiced and disbelieving interrogation of unseen forces, Oliver claiming love for his own as something he deserves as much as wants. Oliver scrappily stands up to all the villains around him, as he tries to find-against a background of workhouses and venal exploiters-some kind of happiness and security. ![]() But wait till you hear “Where Is Love?” as sung by Pajak, Oliver’s cri-de-coeur and plaintive question to the universe around him.Ī young orphan, who is terribly abused and whose foggy parentage is the plot’s major mystery, his is not simply a song of victimhood. The star of the Encores!’ production of Oliver! (New York City Center, to May 14) may only be 12, but he already has a sterling Broadway credit to his name, as a charming scene-stealer in The Music Man. It would be wrong to say “a star is born” when it comes to Benjamin Pajak. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like all biographers of slaves, Clinton could consult only a slim file on her subject’s early years documentation is particularly scant in Tubman’s case because a courthouse fire in the 1850s destroyed important papers. (She died five years later-the year Rosa Parks was born.) The author then takes us back to the Eastern Shore of antebellum Maryland, where Araminta Ross, as Tubman was then called, was born sometime between 18. ![]() Clinton ( Civil War Stories, 1998, etc.) begins in 1908, when the elderly Tubman appears at the opening in Auburn, New York, of the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged and Indigent, her last great public endeavor. 1262), this new account of “the Black Moses” trots along at a brisk pace. Less hobbled by academic conventions than Kate Clifford Larson’s recent Bound for the Promised Land (p. ![]() Well-written bio of the former slave who became an engineer on the Underground Railroad, a loyal supporter of John Brown, a Civil War nurse and spy, and a fiery advocate for women’s suffrage. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the time of witch-mania, and if the villagers discover the truth, they could take matters into their own hands. ![]() They have always whispered about the sinister power of Alinor's beauty, but the secrets they don't know about her and James are far more damning. Alinor's suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor's ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn't follow the rules. England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. ![]() A country at warĪ woman with a dangerous secret On Midsummer's Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. ![]() This New York Times bestseller from "one of the great storytellers of our time" ( San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Handmaid's Tale was nominated for the first-ever Man Booker International Prize representing the best writers in contemporary fiction. ![]() Most significantly, women are deprived of control over their own reproductive functions. It depicts the rebellion of the women in her social class as their ability to read, write, own property, or handle money are lost. The novel follows the story of a young woman, Offred, who struggles to maintain her identity. Society is reorganized by the regime using a peculiar interpretation of some Old Testament ideas, and a new militarized, hierarchical model of social and religious fanaticism among its newly created social classes. The near-future New England setting illustrates a bleak portrayal of the world after the United States is overthrown by a fundamentalist group. It depicts a totalitarian world known as Gilead, portraying the subjection of women in a patriarchal society. The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. ![]() ![]() ![]() For years she consulted to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and to the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. Reichs was also a producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels.įrom teaching FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains, to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, as a forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs has brought her own dramatic work experience to her mesmerizing forensic thrillers. ![]() Reichs’ latest novel, Two Nights, was released July 11 and features Sunday Night, a tough-talking, scarred heroine. The series follows the adventures of Temperance Brennan’s great niece, Tory Brennan. ![]() The best-selling titles are: Virals, Seizure, Code, Exposure, Terminal, and the novella collection Tr ace Evidence. In addition, Kathy co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. Her other Temperance Brennan books include Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones, Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones, Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, 206 Bones, Spider Bones, Flash and Bones, Bones Are Forever, Bones of the Lost, Bones Never Lie, Speaking in Bones and the Temperance Brennan short story collection, The Bone Collection. ![]() Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. ![]() |