![]() ![]() ![]() Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. The Castle of Otranto was a game-changer, and Walpole the writer who paved the way for modern horror exponents. In this new edition Nick Groom examines the reasons for its extraordinary impact and the Gothic culture from which it sprang. Chilling coincidences, ghostly visitations, arcane revelations, and violent combat combine in a heady mix that terrified the novel's first readers. The virgin Isabella flees through a castle riddled with secret passages. After the grotesque death of his only son, Conrad, on his wedding day, Manfred determines to marry the bride-to-be. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. ![]() Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of Otranto, whose fear of an ancient prophecy sets him on a course of destruction. 2001 Publisher Penguin Books Language English Pages 159 Previews available in: English This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. ![]() 'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Readers of a certain age may flash back to 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 movie of forgettable plot but remarkable special effects, in which a team of scientists shrink to microbial size and travel the body’s tubes and vessels against a background of giant blood cells and shiny, pulsating organs. Now Bryson has turned to the human body with The Body: A Guide for Occupants, meandering around its organs in his usual leisurely, amused way, always on the lookout for interesting landmarks and overlooked perspectives. He’s an award-winning author whose writing has led him up the Appalachian Trail, around the United States, and Britain, and through the history of science and language, a writer whose breadth of interest and felicitous style make both fact and anecdote go down easy. Bill Bryson is an excellent companion for a trip - it can be a physical journey or an intellectual one, doesn’t really matter which. ![]() ![]() ![]() The jokester Harry Khan, good-looking in a flashy way and quick of foot, has also become enraptured with the object of Malik’s affection. But beneath that unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion.īut just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar), who should pop up but his nemesis from his school days. Reserved and honorable, Malik wouldn't be noticed by a bystander in a Nairobi street-except perhaps to comment on his carefully sculpted combover. ![]() Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. A beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith’s Ladies Detective series does for Botswanaįor the past three years, the widower Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopper wasn’t a very sympathetic character for the bulk of the book. She receives a letter from Thorne (former official) out of the blue that kicks off the chaotic week-long journey. Hopper, the scientist, has spent the last few years living and working on oil rig in the middle of the Atlantic, as far from the UK as she can get while still working for the government. While there she met a former government official and made friends with him, but had a falling out and they haven’t spoken since. She was smart enough to continue to higher education but was jaded enough not to want to be there. ![]() This is the story of a disaffected scientist who was born just before the Stop and has come of age during the chaos that ensued. ![]() The world is now an eat or be eaten world, but not quite as bad as Mad-Max (there is a throw away reference to the desert people being a bit similar), but everything rests on the UK and the government that took over after the Stop. As in it has stopped rotating on its access and is stationary as it revolves around the sun leaving half the world in darkness and the other half in sunlight with the population surviving most in the twilight areas. That, and this was sent by the publisher back in mid-February. However, I thought my dedicated readers (oh hey all 10-or-so of you :-D) might like a change up from all the MM romance novels I’ve been blasting through. I’m not sure I generally would’ve opted to read a post-apocalyptic fiction novel right now (thank you global pandemic). ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, he was the art director of an advertising agency for many years. ![]() Soon he found a job as a graphic designer in the promotion department of The New York Times. So, in 1952, with a fine portfolio in hand and forty dollars in his pocket, he arrived in New York. But his dream was always to return to America, the land of his happiest childhood memories. Since the Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than sixty books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote.īorn in Syracuse, New York, in 1929, Eric Carle moved with his parents to Germany when he was six years old he was educated there, and graduated from the prestigious art school, the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, in Stuttgart. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold over twelve million copies. Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. ![]() ![]() I knew that, but somehow it didn't seem like we'd done enough."īeing Mortal by Atul Gawande, MD Reviewed by Skye Croom, EMT ""You guys realize there wasn't a damn thing you could have done for those firefighters. "Unfortunately, if I allow myself to consider the personal lives of my patients, I can't concentrate on the work at hand. Reviewed by Megan Oakes, BSN, RN, CEN, ER Nurse, Flight NurseĪs an ER nurse turned flight nurse, I found this book to be a great read! Just like the title suggests it's a perfect read for the trauma suggests it's a perfect read for the trauma hunting, thrill-seeking, adrenaline junkie! Janice Hudson makes her audience feel like they are riding on the helicopter along side her and this quick, fun read will make you want to cry, cheer, and laugh! I highly recommend this read for the ER nurse wanting to fly, the flight nurse bored in between calls, and anyone looking for a fun read about real life events in emergency services. ![]() ![]() Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse by Janice Hudson, RN ![]() ![]() ![]() When I read them I feel like I am 6 years old again. The beauty of these books is the magic for me. I am currently watching the Great British Menu, in which chefs are creating dishes inspired by their favourite children's books, there have been quite a number of Magic Faraway Tree themed dishes demonstrating these are still very much loved. ![]() I adore these books and I think is a testimony to how many children have enjoyed these books that the Magic Faraway Tree appeared at number 66 on the BBC Big Read as voted for by the public. Each week there is a different land - some fun, some not so fun and the children go on to have lots of fun adventures with their new found friends. Climbing the tree they encounter a whole range of magical folk and discover a land at the top of the tree. Whilst there they go exploring in the magical Enchanted Wood and encounter a huge tree in the middle of the Wood. Three children leave the city to move to a little cottage in the country. This book is the first book in the Magic Faraway Series. Having read the Magic Faraway Tree, of course I then had to read the Enchanted Wood. E-Bay is fab! And no, this isn't an advert for E-Bay, but just an appreciation of being re-united with some of the much loved books of my childhood. This is my last E-Bay Enid Blyton post for a while as shopping was becoming a bit of an addiction if I'm honest. ![]() ![]() ![]() The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband's brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows.įirst Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwinedâ?an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding.Īmid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history's most tragic eras."â?USA Today a plot that surprises and devastates."â?New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â?¢ FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTER ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. 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Little does Tessa know that when she travels to London, she will discover new skills and an underground world filled with shadowhunters, warlocks, vampires, and the occult. After her aunt passes away, American Tessa Gray looks forward to starting a new life with her brother in Victorian England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abnett has actually crafted well a deep dissectomy right into the life, identifications as well as additionally specific evil ones of an Imperial Inquisitor, most likely among one of the most fascinating sensations in the WH40K arrangement. ![]() This is without a doubt one of the most reliable book to find out of the Black Collection. ![]() |