![]() Tells the story of the fortunes of a beautiful Elizabethan house in Suffolk in eight episodes, each narratedīy a different character who plays a part in its history. The House at Old Vine, and The House at Sunset) spans 600 years in the history of a house,įrom its beginnings as the home of a medieval wool-merchant to the present day, and Bless This House Occupants lack, although the occupants may leave impressions. Both landscape and houses have a permanency which their Many of her historical romances are set in Suffolk,Įngland and many of them are set around houses. Lofts novels have a strong sense of time and place. Her novels are well known not only for their historicalĪccuracy, but for her vigorous style of storytelling and her sense of history and her capacity to transmit ![]() In the nineteenth century or had English history as backgrounds, though other nations and eras-includingīiblical times-were represented in her writings. She was best known for her historical novels, many of which were set ![]() ![]() Norah Lofts Norah Robinson Lofts (1904 - 1983) (aka Juliet Astley and Peter Curtis) Norah Lofts was a prolific British author who wrote not only historical romances for over 50 years,īut also nonfiction and biographies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “The Commission has been reviewing and reporting on the movie, music, and video game industries’ advertising and marketing practices relating to violent entertainment for 10 years now,” noted FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz in a separate statement accompanying the report. Marketers of violent music, movies, and video games can do more to restrict the promotion of these products to children, according to the seventh in a series of Federal Trade Commission reports on marketing violent entertainment to children. About the FTC Show/hide About the FTC menu items.News and Events Show/hide News and Events menu items.Advice and Guidance Show/hide Advice and Guidance menu items.Competition and Consumer Protection Guidance Documents.Enforcement Show/hide Enforcement menu items. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Classical artist Francisco Solano López (who had to flee Argentina for Spain) illustrated the book in a gritty, realistic style. The Eternaut is also thinly disguised political allegory: its writer, Héctor Germán Oesterheld (HGO), because he was involved in groups who protested the military dictatorship, was “disappeared” and presumed dead in 1977. ![]() Cold War tensions, aliens of all sizes, space-and time travel-this one has it all. Juan Salvo, its inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metalworker Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they imagined. This seminal Argentinian science fiction graphic novel was originally released as a serial from 1957–59. ![]() Fantagraphics is proud to publish, for the first time in English, a graphic novel so powerful its main character’s image (much like Che Guevara’s) has become a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression “Juan Salvo” appears on walls and in subways throughout Latin America to this day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Netflix film, an adaptation of the 1929 anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque, became Germany’s most successful film at the Academy Awards. Both actors appeared together in the 1992 comedy “Encino Man” starring Pauly Shore.Įdward Berger’s gripping war drama “All Quiet on the Western Front” won four Oscars including Best International Feature, Best Score, Best Production Design and Best Cinematography. “EEAAO” became the most-awarded Best Picture winner since “Slumdog Millionaire” which pulled off eight wins in 2008.īrendan Fraser took home the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance in “The Whale” while thanking director Darren Aronofsky for reviving his career by throwing him a “creative lifeline.” It was a similar story for Ke Huy Quan who credits The Daniels for reviving his career. ![]() ![]() Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win the Best Actress award, filmmakers Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan took home Oscars for Best Director and Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Ke Huy Quan took home the Best Supporting Actor award, making him only the second Asian actor to win in the category, and Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Last night “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won big at the 95th Academy Awards taking home seven awards including Best Picture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once, he gives Tom a nest full of baby birds, and Agnes quickly kills the hatchlings before Tom can torture them. Bloomfield, and she is horrified at the bad example that the children’s uncle sets for them. Agnes is shocked when the parents scold her for their children’s bad behavior but refuse to punish them or provide proper guidance themselves.Īgnes is humiliated by the unkindness and suspicion she encounters from Mr. Mary Ann, six, refuses to learn her lessons, and even four-year-old Fanny is uncooperative. Tom, seven, is aggressive and enjoys tormenting animals. Bloomfield is cold instead of nurturing, and the three children Agnes tutors are difficult, disobedient, and stubborn. Though 18, she is the family pet, and they do not believe she is ready to leave home.Īgnes finds a position with the Bloomfields of Wellwood, a tradesman’s family, and she is dismayed to find that governessing does not live up to her romantic notions of guiding and shaping young minds. When the family’s fortune is lost through a failed investment, Agnes offers to take work as a governess. ![]() This guide uses the Wordsworth Classics print edition published in 1998, which includes a short biographical note that Charlotte Brontë wrote concerning the works of her sisters, Emily and Anne.Īgnes Grey lives with her clergyman father, resourceful mother, and older sister Mary in the north of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() We stood around like a bunch of kids roasting hotdogs and then making smores.Ĭhemistry-bonding thing actually had worked. Tonight, our last night, the coaches lit up a campfire. We're all athletes, so nobody's drinking or doing any drugs. Overhead are eagles and hawks seals bask in the sun on the beach. From a lookout one hundred yards from my little room, I can see Puget Sound with the Olympic Mountains as backdrop. I'm not complaining-it's one of the most beautiful places in the world. The coaches want to build team chemistry, so that's why we're all together at Camp Casey on Whidbey Island. Better, really, than what my parents or my sister ever thought I'd do. Olympic is an okay college in a bad conference, but it's good enough for me. Not that it's like getting a scholarship to Duke. I'm at Olympic College now, starting my freshman year on a basketball scholarship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One benefit of the cold was that the smell wasn’t so bad, but Vonvalt still held a kerchief filled with dried lavender to his nose. An inn lay off to one side, and livestock and peasants moved haphazardly through the public space. It was as tumbledown as the rest of them. The manor was distinguishable only by its size, being perhaps twice as big as the biggest cottage, but there the differences ended. It was formed of a large communal square of churned mud and straw, and a ring of twenty buildings with wattle-and-daub walls and thatched roofs. For its isolation, it was typical for the Northmark of Tolsburg. How to describe it? The birthplace of our misfortune was so plain. That as we drew closer to it, we were not just plodding through a rainy, cold country twenty miles east of the Tolsburg Marches we were approaching the precipice of the Great Decline, its steep and treacherous slope falling away from us like a cliff face of glassy obsidian. ![]() It is a strange thing to think that the end of the Empire of the Wolf, and all the death and devastation that came with it, traced its long roots back to the tiny and insignificant village of Rill. I The Witch of Rill “Beware the idiot, the zealot and the tyrant each clothes himself in the armour of ignorance.” From Caterhauser’s The Sovan Criminal Code: Advice to Practitioners ![]() ![]() ![]() For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. ![]() If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,777 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the Russian article. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Certain descriptions can go on and on and feel irrelevant.įollowing on from The Iliad, we have another epic from Homer, The Odyssey.Still deeply relevant after so many centuries of history.Great option for someone who loves Greek mythology.It vividly tells both the heroism and horror of both men and gods during the Trojan War, making this epic a grim but engaging poetic read. Many believe that The Iliad was written sometime in the 7th or 8th century BC and although this epic is over two millennia old, it is still a relevant and readable book today. ![]() One of the first epics in Western literature is Homer’s The Iliad. So, here are some of the best classicals you should check out! The Iliad By Homer Some were written during ancient times or are so old we no longer know the true identity of the poet.īecause classicals are so old, there are only a few in this category – but they are still just as emotive, challenging, and engaging as the others on this list. However, if you want to start reading classic literature, it can be difficult to know where to start and which ones should be at the very top of your must-read list.Ĭheck out the list below for some of the best classic books you need to read! Best Classical Books To ReadĬlassicals are the oldest of the classics. They are thought-provoking mirrors of ourselves and also allow us to learn more about people, places, and conflicts we will never truly experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At least they’re…okay? Maybe? Sort of?Īnd…Forest is deeeeefinitely toying with our feelings here. I liked seeing where Wynter was (because I still have a major soft spot for her, and she deserves so much better), but I…don’t know if it contributed to the story much at all. We also get to check in on a few favorites from the previous books, including Tierney and Wynter. ![]() The first portion of the book jumps between the POVs of several, completely new characters they show up later, and those chapters gave a little bit of backstory for them, but I don’t think entire chapters were needed to explain their backgrounds. Remember how I said in my review of The Iron Flower that book 2 didn’t fall into the trap of middle-book-slump? I seem to have forgotten then that the series is slated to be a series of five books, making The Shadow Wand the middle book.Īnd I hate to say it, but there’s some serious disappointing middle book syndrome going on here.įrom the start, I feel like at least 100-150 pages could have been cut out (for clarification, The Shadow Wand clocks in at 554 pages). ![]() |