![]() We encounter his hybrid creatures, his nightmarish scenarios, his religious and moral framework, and his pictorial versions of contemporary proverbs and idioms.Īlong the way, art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer reveals the most important themes and influences in these cryptic, mesmerizing masterpieces. Through full spreads and carefully curated details, we explore the full reach and compelling inventions of the artist's genius as well as disturbing imagination. ![]() This edition offers the complete and haunting Bosch world in one compact format. 500 years on from his death, his works continue to inspire scholars, artists, designers, and musicians, death metal band names and designer dresses. 1450-1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most cult artists in history. ![]() Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. ![]()
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First Sentence: The journey was no worse than she expected.įavourite Quote: “How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thankfully there was a glossary at the end that explained everyone’s role in depth, but Scylla’s story stuck with me as I reached the end of the novel. I personally didn’t remember several of the characters mentioned, one of the most notable being Scylla. They were mentioned in order of importance, but not in a way that took away from Circe’s story. The novel focuses primarily on Circe’s narrative, but I enjoyed how the other mythical characters were described as well. ![]() Miller does a fantastic job of capturing the simultaneous feelings of hope and despair as she finally comes to know herself for who she truly is. One of my favorite parts of this novel is when Circe discovers she is a witch. ![]() Circe’s story is both tragic and beautiful, and each chapter allows a close look into how she personally dealt with the legends bearing her name. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was adapted into a film, with the same title, in 1989. It is described by John Rowe Townsend as "a tale of double-dyed villainy, with right triumphant in the end". Aiken wrote the book over a period of years, with a seven-year gap due to her full-time work the success of this, her second novel, enabled her to quit her job and write full-time. ![]() A large number of wolves have migrated from the bitter cold of Europe and Russia into Britain via a new "channel tunnel", and terrorise the inhabitants of rural areas. ![]() The novel is the first in the Wolves Chronicles, a series of books set during the fictional early 19th-century reign of King James the Third. Set in an alternative history of England, it tells of the adventures of cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend Simon the goose-boy as they thwart the evil schemes of their governess Miss Slighcarp, and their so-called "teacher" at boarding school, Mrs. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1962. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seven years after Anne's House of Dreams, Anne visits Diana Wright and her daughter, Anne Cordelia, in Avonlea following the funeral of Gilbert's father. The book's United States copyright was renewed in 1967. In addition, a short story collection The Blythes Are Quoted, written in 1941/42 yet not published until 2009, concludes the Anne stories. Ĭhronologically, Anne of Ingleside precedes Rainbow Valley, which was published years earlier. It is the tenth of eleven books that feature the character of Anne Shirley, and Montgomery's final published novel. 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At a recent meeting, a colleague who was twelve pages from the end was secretly reading them under the table because she could not stop. ![]() Within days of my introducing the manuscript in March, people from every department were regularly pulling me aside to testify to how much they loved the read, how they couldn't put it down. but it's hard not to be swayed when you read: it's an incredibly fast-paced and engrossing psychological thriller, and i was on board as soon as i read the editor's bit of ARC-copy, even though i know that writing those things is part of the job and not at all unbiased. ![]() Oh, yeah - this one is going to be a must-read for those people looking to find their next Gone Girl experience. ![]() I read it and I thought, I'm not that bad. I once read a book by a former alcoholic where she described giving oral sex to two different men, men she'd just met in a restaurant on a busy London high street. ![]() ![]() The TV series went some way to answering that in its second season, revealing she had sent the child on an “Underground Femaleroad” to Canada. In The Handmaid’s Tale novel we never found out what happened to June and her then-unborn child. Finally, we meet Daisy, a teenage girl in Canada who is (bigger spoiler) actually Nicole, the second child of June (Offred) from The Handmaid’s Tale. Then we meet Agnes, a young woman with an evil step mother growing up in Gilead. First is an Aunt, one of the engineers of Gilead’s repressive stance on women (mild spoiler: it’s the infamous Aunt Lydia). It is told through the voices of three women, who at first seem new to the world but quickly reveal themselves to have significant connections with the previous novel and TV series. The Testaments explains how that process began. In the original book we found out in an academic postscript that Gilead had ultimately fallen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Testaments answers the long-standing question of what happened to the Republic of Gilead, the oppressive patriarchal-Christian regime introduced in The Handmaid’s Tale that turned women into red-dressed baby factories. The Testaments is now a book that is completely inseparable from the politics surrounding it, including Margaret Atwood’s controversial shared Booker win with Bernadine Evaristo, but I’m going to try and say something about the book itself before I get to that. This review contains spoilers for The Testaments and The Handmaid’s Tale TV series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. ![]() This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of North and South features an afterword by Kathryn White.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. One of literature's greatest romances, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is both an incisive social commentary and an electric portrayal of all-conquering love. ![]() Amidst the chaos of industrial unrest, they must learn to overcome the prejudices of class and circumstance and admit their feelings for one another. But as she begins to settle in, and to understand the nature of the surrounding poverty and injustice, events conspire to throw her and Thornton together. Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems to characterize her new home and its inhabitants - even the handsome and charismatic cotton mill owner, John Thornton. North and South Author Elizabeth Gaskell Publisher Alma Classics Pages 480 Released 22nd February 2018 (Originally released in 1855) ISBN-13 978-1847497161 Format ebook, paperback, hardcover, audio Reviewer Clive Rating 4 Stars I received a free copy of this book Post contains affiliate links. ![]() |