![]() ![]() In 2003, the novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read, while in 2007, it was ranked 10th on The Guardian 's list of greatest love stories of all time. Hardy revised the text extensively for the 1895 edition and made further changes for the 1901 edition. On publication, critical notices were plentiful and mostly positive. It describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. The novel is set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural southwest England, as had been his earlier Under the Greenwood Tree. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. ![]() 464 pages (Harper & Brothers edition, 1912)įar from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. ![]()
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![]() They add so much to the story. Joseph lives on neutral ground and is not Irish. I still adore Ivy and Emma, Joseph Archer's little girls. It was great to see more of the Irish culture and read more about the O'Connor family. Katie caused quite a bit of conflict when she first arrived and it seems she still does. ![]() There is the Irish Road and the Red Road and no space to overlap. Hope Springs is a tough little town to live in. ![]() I couldn't put it down! I loved this bittersweet story! Loved it!!! I loved the ending! So, so good! It made me laugh, sigh, and even cry (thanks, Sarah). It has love, desperation, heartbreak, hatred, kindness, sacrifice, friendship, sadness, turmoil, music, romance, and hope. Let me just share with you what it is full of. I'm still trying to put my thoughts in order after finishing this book. (You can see my review here.) I had heard that the second book was fabulous and I love all of Sarah's books, so I was definitely committed to reading it. I enjoyed the first book in this series, Longing for Home. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a few rough years, Dan finally gets his shit together. He hops on a bus, heads to New Hampshire, and ends up in AA with the little help of a new friend, Billy Freeman ( Cliff Curtis). Drinking also helps him keep his shining at bay, but a startling wake-up call has him seeking both a change of scenery and a change of lifestyle. ![]() ![]() Like his late, lamented father, Dan is an alcoholic, and his alcoholism has lead him down a dark, violent path. Jump ahead some 30-odd years, and Danny is now Dan Torrance ( Ewan McGregor), a man about to hit rock bottom. Danny needs a way to fight off those ghosts, and he finds one with a little help from an old friend. The ghosts from the Overlook have managed to find him and track him down, using his psychic powers – his "shining" – as a lighthouse beacon. He's still haunted, too – and not in the figurative sense. Danny is still traumatized by the events that unfolded in the Overlook. Young Danny Torrance ( Roger Dale Floyd) and his mother Wendy ( Alex Essoe) have escaped the haunted Overlook Hotel, leaving Danny's demented, possessed father Jack to freeze to death in the hedge maze surrounding the land. ![]() ![]() ![]() No one ever stops to ask glue how it's holding up. "You're not the only person in this world who doesn't want to get out of bed in the morning." - Kenji people seeking power are not to be trusted." - Juliette things can get better as long as power is put in the right hands." - Juliette "Hope can make people do terrible things." - Juliette sometimes there are people out there who still manage to smile every day, despite everything." - Juliette ![]() "Loneliness is a strange sort of thing." - Juliette it's so difficult to fight what you cannot control." - Juliette "We are synonyms but not the same." - Juliette "I thought I could live out the stories I'd read in so many books when I was a child." - Juliette "I wanted to believe in fairy tales and happy endings and pure possibility." - Juliette "How is it possible that I'm this close to you and it's killing me that you're still so far away." - Castle "Bad news offers no returns once received." - Juliette I'm a noun through and through." - Juliette I don't know how to be a verb, an adverb, any kind of modifier. "I don't have to a closet filled with umms and ellipses ready to insert at the beginnings and ends of sentences. You have to deal with who you are and you have to figure out how to live with it." - Kenji ![]() you have to learn how to control what you do - how to contain it. "Good intentions are great, but they don't change facts." - Kenji everything is connected in a way we don't yet understand." - Castle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From early on, it’s obvious that Temujin is a natural leader, but when his father dies and his family are kicked out of the clan, we see his other traits – tenacity, ruthlessness and survival instincts – as he keeps his family alive in less than ideal circumstances. The Wolf of the Plains is the first book in a series and tells of the young Genghis, Temujin, son of a clan chief, and the beginnings of his rise to be so much more. On with the review.ĭisclaimer – I read this in August, so forgive me if I’m a little hazy on some of the details. People are brutally killed and women are raped, so bear this in mind should you choose to read this. ![]() Piece of cake, right? Be warned though, this is rife with historical detail. In Wolf of the Plains, he takes on the same challenge with Genghis Khan, uniter of the Mongol hordes, conqueror of China, and at the time of his death, builder of the largest empire the world had known. ![]() This can be a tricky thing to do for many reasons, but I felt that Iggulden did a stellar job in adding life to what for most of us is a historical caricature. One of my favourite series was his Emperor books in which he breathed life into the well known historical facts about one Julius Caesar Esquire. Before we begin, I would like to confess that I am an unabashed Conn Iggulden fan, having read many of his books and enjoyed each of them immensely. ![]() ![]() Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements**-**a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. : Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (9781400096190) by Wallach, Janet and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]() ![]() " Desert ucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." - The Boston Globe This richly textured biography ( Chicago Tribune ) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to air on public television. ![]() The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” ( Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. ![]() ![]() Waiting for the Flood has received workshops at A.C.T., New York Stage and Film, and Roundabout Theatre. Her play Kinship premiered at the Théâtre de Paris last October in a production starring Isabelle Adjani and Niels Schneider and was produced at the Williamstown Theater Festival last summer, starring Cynthia Nixon and directed by Jo Bonney. Perloff is also an award-winning playwright. Master of Fine Arts Program receipt of the 1996 Jujamcyn Theaters Award, honoring A.C.T.’s efforts to develop creative talent for the theater a series of international collaborations and dozens of successful productions. ![]() Her tenure there has been marked by the rebuilding of the earthquake-damaged Geary Theater (now the American Conservatory Theater), the creation of a new core company of actors revitalization of the acclaimed A.C.T. ![]() Perloff is celebrating her 24th season as artistic director of A.C.T. ![]() ![]() Alumnae Hall Ruth Nagel Jones Foyer (100D)Ĭarey Perloff, Artisitic Director of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, speaks of her professional journey and the role of theatre in today's world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As if having dark skin is all of a sudden trendy and like dark skinned women are suddenly in the same league as women of other races. 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