Northanger abbey5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Austen both exploits and mocks these forms as she tells the story of young, naïve Catherine Morland, who eagerly enters the world of the country gentry and upper middle class society, only to be overwhelmed, confused, and sometimes disappointed by the people she meets and by the complexities of their social rules. The work also comments on the novelistic conventions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including conventions related to the sentimental romance, as well as its subgenre, the Gothic romance. The book is also one of the first of its day to employ realism (depicting the common, often uneventful happenings of everyday life). Though it was published posthumously in 1818, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey was written in 1803 and it was the first novel she completed. ![]()
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Judge dredd garth ennis5/22/2023 ![]() Set mainly in 2114 it tells of how the Fourth World War took the lives of three billion people when a powerful necromagus called Sabbat raised all the corpses in the world as zombies. It was written by Garth Ennis (based on an idea by John Wagner) and illustrated by Carlos Ezquerra, Peter Doherty, Dean Ormston and Chris Halls. It was also a crossover with another 2000 AD series, Strontium Dog, as it featured the second occasion on which Judge Dredd confronted Johnny Alpha (the lead character in Strontium Dog). It was the first crossover between the two publications three more have since followed. ![]() It was first published with alternating episodes in both 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine in 1992. " Judgement Day" is a story of British science fiction character Judge Dredd. Peter Doherty, Carlos Ezquerra, Dean Ormston, and Chris Halls ![]() Once upon a broken heart evangeline5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Every entry here was carved panels, decorative architraves, glass awnings, and gilded keyholes. Nothing in the Temple District was this unattractive. The door at the end of this decrepit alley was barely taller than she was, and hidden behind a rusted metal grate instead of covered in beautiful bloodred paint, but she would have bet her father’s curiosity shop that this was the missing door. It’s now impossible for anyone to enter the church-Įvangeline shoved the two-week-old newsprint into the pocket of her flowered skirt. ![]() ![]() Painted the deep bloodred of broken hearts, the iconic entry simply vanished from one of the Temple District’s most visited churches sometime during the night, leaving behind an impenetrable marble wall. The door to the Prince of Hearts’ church has disappeared. ![]() Roman sawyer bennett5/22/2023 ![]() Roman Sýkora is Cold Fury's resident bad boy both on and off the ice. ![]() This latest release can be read as a standalone but I recommend the previous books as well. ![]() Roman is the seventh installment in Sawyer Bennett's Cold Fury Hockey series and features two very sweet romances. Trouble is, Roman's not ready to quit on her. Feeling hurt and foolish, Lexi's ready to quit while she's ahead. But when the friction between Roman and her new family heats up, Lexi wonders whether she's a pawn in their game. As one relationship takes off, another begins: Brian seems to be clicking with Lexi's boss at the coffee shop. That's where she first meets sexy, intimidating Roman-who's really a big softie at heart. Lexi Robertson came to Raleigh, North Carolina, to finally meet her father, Brian Brannon, and her half sister, Gray, both of whom work in the Cold Fury's front office. Luckily he's got an enticing distraction: a fun-loving barista who plays the ukulele and brings out a side of Roman he didn't know he had. But now Roman's feeling the burn from management to clean up his act, or else. ![]() ![]() When he's not chilling in the penalty box, the sizzling Czech skate demon is racking up tabloid headlines for his scandalous behavior with the ladies. In a league full of troublemakers, Cold Fury defenseman Roman Sýkora stands out-at least when it comes to negative publicity. ![]() Bearbrass by Robyn Annear5/22/2023 ![]() The claimant was eventually tried for perjury and the case dragged on with its new slant. The claimant's opponents identified him as Arthur Orton, a butcher's son from Wapping who had also gone missing in colonial Australian action. Amassing supporters in both hemispheres, Castro went to London to claim his inheritance, thus instigating what stood as the longest trial in English legal history until 1996 (when it was surpassed by the "McLibel" case). Twelve years later, Tom Castro, a butcher from Wagga Wagga, recognised himself as the lost heir. However, there were rumours that survivors made it to Australia. ![]() In 1854, Roger Tichborne, heir to a baronetcy and substantial estates in England, disappeared in a shipwreck off South America. ![]() Annear untangles the knotty history of the Tichborne case with a lightness of touch that belies the exhaustive research undertaken. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.įor Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. ![]() The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire in this first book in a major epic fantasy series ![]() ![]() There were the Hibernators, who embraced their Gloom and set about preparing their winter’s den Netflix, crates of wine, firewood, and enough plätzchen and nuts to see out the icy siege. Green, replaced by an underwhelming drabness, permeating every corner, of every inch, of every part, of anything that could have been touched by light, but was instead strangled by shadow.Īt that time of the year-the ‘Gloomszeit’, as it had become known-the city broke off into three distinct groups. The leaves, long gone from the trees, a faded memory, squashed into the pavement under the heavy boots of winter. Grey clouds sagged, like gargantuan, sodden cotton balls, which threatened to fall from the sky and suffocate all of us at any minute. The Glooms grew exponentially, feeding off disdain and hopelessness, causing a despairing darkness to fall over the city. They bounced off all the other faces and surfaces until they pointed directly back at themselves. They were so invasive that everyone took exception to them and each projected their very own snarly version of it back at one other. Deep furrowed frowns, directed at the world around and at no one in particular. ![]() The shoulders of everyone she met drooped forward with the sheer weight of them and peoples’ faces showed their struggles with the immensity of it all. Mali could always tell when it was the time of the Glooms. ![]() Sir salman rushdie the satanic verses5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. ![]() 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() I am providence joshi5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Yo soy Providence supone el esfuerzo monumental que constituye la última palabra de S.T. ![]() Esta biografía definitiva, exhaustiva e hiperdocumentada de la mano del mayor experto mundial en su figura, disecciona a fondo su vida y obra literaria, y además traza un análisis pormenorizado de la época en la que vivió. Igualmente, su horror cósmico permea cine, artes plásticas, juegos de rol y videojuegos. Howard y Clark Ashton Smith, pero también en otros más contemporáneos como Stephen King, Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Jorge Luis Borges, Joyce Carol Oates o Thomas Ligotti. Su influencia literaria se percibe en autores coetáneos de su propio círculo como Robert E. ![]() Lovecraft (1890-1937) es considerado como uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX, especialmente con respecto a la literatura de terror. ![]() Tuff by Paul Beatty5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s strengths are in its characters – Beatty creates caricatures that seem so outlandish and pulled from the pages of comic books, that you’re shocked when you begin to identify with these characters, relate to them, and begin to understand them. The book, written more than 15 years before The Sellout, feels a bit more optimistic, and a bit less cynical (with plenty reason), but otherwise Beatty’s strengths as an author, humorist, and cultural critic shine just as bright in Tuff as they do in The Sellout. Whereas The Sellout’s fast-paced, reference laden satire hit my unsuspecting self like a whiff of nitrious-oxide, I came to Tuff more prepared, and ready to contend with Beatty’s combination of comedy, satire, and political/social commentary. Tuff is my second work of Beatty’s after reading his Man Booker Award-winning novel The Sellout last year. Over the past week, I ripped through Paul Beatty’s 2000 novel Tuff. ![]() |