Pole to pole by michael palin6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Palin wrote most of his material with Terry Jones. ![]() Sir Michael Edward Palin, KCMG, CBE, FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. It's all quite exhausting! - Jerry Brotton Palin's shrewd observations are as ever interspersed with his eye for the weird and the comical, as he meets Santa Claus and Lenin, goes shopping for camels in Omdurman, and makes a final hectic dash to the South Pole via Chile. Palin revels in the surrealism of it all as he travels through a range of vastly different European and African communities undergoing massive social and political upheavals in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The result is Pole to Pole, Palin's account of his extraordinary journey between July and December 1991, passing through 17 countries from Greenland and the former Soviet Union in the north to Kenya, South Africa and Chile in the south.įrom the frozen wastes of both poles, to the scorching heat of Africa, Pole to Pole is a travelogue of bizarre extremes. Having circumnavigated the globe from west to east in Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin proceeded to stretch even his endurance with his next journey, travelling due south from the North Pole, arriving five months later at the southernmost point of the globe, the South Pole. ![]()
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Novel by george du maurier6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Cheerful as the bohemian girl was, she could not carry a tune to save her life, and it’s the desire to help her sing that drives musician Svengali to train her. Trilby is the story of a half-Irish girl working in Paris who happens to have the eyes of every man who lays them on her. Published as a book in September 1985, the novel went on to sell over 200,000 copies in the United States itself. Harper’s Monthly began publishing George Du Maurier’s Trilbyin January 1894, serializing it through August of that same year. What makes this statement more surprising-prior to even noting what book-is the fact the book left an indelible mark on American and European culture. Chances are that unless you’re a fan of lesser-known classics or a devoted student to English-language literary history, you’ve likely not heard of one of the most sensational, popular books of the late 1800s. ![]() ![]() ![]() This also applies to you posting on behalf of your friend/family member/neighbor. Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. ![]() Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wanda, the daughter of the middle Steinmann sister, is freshly arrived from America and engaged to an ambitious local glassblower. The local glassworks is about to be sold, and rumour has it the buyer wants to make changes that will challenge glassblowing tradition. But now the livelihood of the town of Lauscha, Germany - known around the world as the 'paradise of glass' - is in danger. ![]() ![]() Summary Johanna, the oldest of the three Steinmann sisters, has successfully managed the family glassblowing business since her father's death, and her sister Marie's artistic gifts have made their wares unexpectedly famous. Label The paradise of glass Title The paradise of glass Statement of responsibility Petra Durst-Benning Creator ![]() Agatha christie's marple s2e16/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby's. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. ![]() ![]() Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Subsequent episodes were derived both from works featuring Miss Marple but also Christie novels that did not feature the character.Įpisodes Series 1 (2004-05) #Ī young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. The first six episodes were all adaptations of Miss Marple novels by Christie. She was replaced by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. Agatha Christie's Marple is a British ITV television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ![]() It followsthat limiting the possible meaning of languageby rendering it explicit also lmits the possible meaning that could be found in the world It is metaphors that carry us across (that is what the word ‘metaphor’ means) the implied gap between language and the world, and make what would otherwise be a hermetically sealed system of signs capable of meaning something in terms of embodied experience. Much elegant research demonstrates that we are essentially blind to what we do not think For me it would require couple of re-reads to savour and assimilate. This is a must read for all of those who are intrigued by the complex muscle called brain. I particularly liked the one which elaborates the true meaning of a metaphor. ![]() Picking the best, which itself ran into some 300 words from a small book of about 10,000 words, is a measure of the extent to which this cerebral work can engross the reader. ![]() Princess sultana al saud6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Since December 2019, he is the oldest surviving son of King Abdulaziz. Salman became king in 2015 upon the death of his half-brother, King Abdullah. ![]() He was then appointed minister of defense. He was the deputy governor of Riyadh and later the governor of Riyadh for 48 years from 1963 to 2011. Salman is a son of King Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi, making him one of the Sudairi Seven. Salman is the 3rd oldest living head of state and the oldest living monarch besides being the country's first head of state born after the unification of Saudi Arabia. Prior to his accession, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 16 June 2012 to 23 January 2015. The 25th son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia, he assumed the throne on 23 January 2015. He also served as Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2022. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud ( Arabic: سلمان بن عبد العزیز آل سعود, Salmān ibn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Su‘ūd, born 31 December 1935) is King of Saudi Arabia, reigning since 2015. ![]() We were liars genre6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() lockhart deftly paints a picture of this blue blood family and their environs, then delves into the emotional price that is paid for being part of this world. Wields his power, playing his three daughters off each other, especially the Over her black pearls and embroidered tablecloths when she dies. Harris holds the power and Tipper exhibits it byįilling their homes with object upon object, leaving her daughters to fight Its important that the setting is isolated insofar as. The island is off the coast of Massachusetts, close to Marthas Vineyard, where Cadence goes to the hospital after the accident. The kitchen and garden, unless she was on “display in pearls and on sailboats.” Cadence lives in Burlington, Vermont during the school year, but the bulk of the action in We Were Liars takes place on a fictitious island called Beechwood. Massachusetts where they summer every year. Patriarch Harris grew theįortune that he came into after graduating Harvard and put his wife Tipper in ![]() They also have their own private island off the coast of Story begins has everything to do with this family of “old money Democrats” who The person Cady is and the point she has reached in her life when the Of we were liars is all about the “beautiful Sinclair family.” A few chapters into the novel and it isĬlear why Cady chooses to tell us about her family before she tells us about While Cady tells us about herself in Chapter 2, Chapter 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the first of eleven books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Anne Shirley Blythe, followed by Anne of Avonlea (1909), Chronicles of Avonlea (1912), Anne of the Island (1915), Anne’s House of Dreams (1917), Rainbow Valley (1919), Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920), Rilla of Ingleside (1921), Anne of Windy Poplars (1936), Anne of Ingleside (1939), and The Blythes Are Quoted (2009). ![]() Montgomery’s first, most celebrated, and best-known book, first published in June 1908 by L.C. Page and Company in 1908.Īnne of Green Gables is L.M. A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917Ĭover art for Anne of Green Gables, published by L.C.A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921. ![]() Free Four by Veronica Roth6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book focuses on Tobias Eaton and is both a prequel and a retelling of certain events of the first book, Divergent. ![]() The anthology consists of five short stories previously released separately as e-books, in addition to three new ones. Main article: Four: A Divergent Collection Beatrice Prior, who later changes her name to Tris, is born into Abnegation but transfers into Dauntless she must figure out her life as a Divergent, conceal her true nature, and live with the danger of being killed if her true nature is discovered by the Erudite and Dauntless leaders. ![]() The trilogy's society defines its members by their social and personality affiliations, with the five different factions removing the threat of anyone exercising independent will and threatening the population's safety. The trilogy is set in the future in a dystopian society that is divided into five factions. A later short story, We Can Be Mended (2018), serves as an epilogue five years after the events of the trilogy, again from Tobias/Four's perspective. A related book, Four (2014), presents a series of short stories told from the perspective of one of the trilogy's characters, the male love interest Tobias. The trilogy consists of Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013). We Can Be Mended: A Divergent Series Epilogue (2018)ĭivergent is a series of young adult science fiction adventure novels by American novelist Veronica Roth set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Chicago. ![]() |