A wonderful copy of this True First Edition!. Pages are clean, strong, and intact with only an owner's name written inside. Light rubbing to joints and very faint rubbing to cover label, spine ends crimped, corners and spine bottom a bit rubbed some chipping on the past-down front picture. The publisher s name on the spine reads Reilly & Britton. Published on 6 June 1915, it was Baums admitted favorite among his Oz books. On the front is a pictorial paper label in colors. The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book in L. Inserted pictorial endpapers in black and white. Cap'n Bill and Trot (Mayre Griffiths) had. Rinkitink of Oz (1915) The Scarecrow of Oz (1914) Tic-Tok of Oz (1913) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1910) The Emerald City of Oz (1909) Dorothy and the Wizard. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrowing the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland. The publisher s advertisement on the verso of the half-title page lists eight Oz titles the last is The Scarecrow of Oz. The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. 9圆-1/2, bright green cloth, pictorial cover label black & white pictorial endpapers.First Edition, First State. with 12 color plates & numerous black & white illus.
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Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. What starts out as the most awkward, uncomfortable marriage in all of England turns into something else entirely when Lavinia and Armand discover that they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. With his medical career decimated by the duties of his title, the responsibility of an estate he doesn't know how to run on his shoulders, and a position in the House of Lords that his friends urge him to attend to, the last thing he has time for is a wife.īut fate, and Lady Ursula Prior, have other plans. Armand Pearson never expected to inherit the title of Viscount Helm and all that goes with it upon his cousin's death. Until one cringe-worthy night during a late-summer house party at Winterberry Park.ĭr. But since her mother has never deemed any man to be good enough, Lavinia is at risk of becoming a spinster by default. Heaven forbid she should form an opinion of her own or want something more than the rigid role her mother has planned for her as the perfect wife of an important man. Lady Lavinia Prior has lived her whole life under her mother's thumb. Mark Treharne (translator) taught French at the University of Warwick and has since worked as a translator. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of In Search of Lost Time. There he insulated himself against the distractions of city life and the effects of trees and flowers-though he loved them, they brought on his attacks of asthma. From 1907 on, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on boulevard Haussmann. After 1899, however, his chronic asthma, the death of his parents, and his growing disillusionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. In his twenties, following a year in the army, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was born in Auteuil, France. The story follows a couple in the mid-thirties in the mid-1980s as they move into a small house that is part of a larger estate within the grounds just of an alley in a quieter part of Tokyo. The book in some ways is autobiographical to the writer’s own life as he was a writer. My wife got into the habit of pointing to the cat whenever it went by, extolling its virtues. It may be that most cats share the same quickness, but even so, in Chibi’s case, it was acute – she was after all, the cat of Lightning Alley. And there were times when I could only conclude that she must be reacting to subtle changes in the wind and light, not detectable by humans. Perhaps because she played alone most of the time in the expansive garden, seh reacted strongly to insects and reptiles. This active behaviour wasn’t limited to her kittenhood. He has published over twenty books and edited a series of books in Japan.Īnother one pf Chibi’s characteristics was that she changed the direction of her cautious attention frequently. He was described by Kenzaburo Oe as a poet who creates new prose from poetry. The book was written by the Japanese Poet Takashi Hirade he was born in Moji and lives in Tokyo with his wife who is also a poet. I now head back to Japan for the third book for this years January inJapan event and I decided to look at my TBR pile of books and one I had brought just because I liked the Cat on the cover I worried the book was going to be one that I wouldn’t enjoy but I decided as I had just brought another Japanese bestseller about a cat it was time to read this cat book. The water color drawings with the defining of the black ink were absolutely beautiful and I feel like the images I had in my mind the first time I read Long Way Down were captured so well in this adaption. The graphic novel adaptation was so good and I'm happy about the way it turned out. This is all about empathy and how we shouldn't force labels on people especially youth. We don't necessarily know whether will goes through with it or not. I love that Reynolds leaves the ending as a mystery. When Will attempts to get revenge he ends up meeting a series of people who are also victims of the cycle of violence. Both the graphic novel and the book focus on Will's attempt to get revenge for his brother's death. I think that it's easy to judge people especially youth that are victims of violence when you don't take the opportunity to really learn and understand how they get there in the first place. Reynolds utilizes this story to capture the discussion around cyclical violence. I read it for the first time this year and it was AMAZING. Anyone who knows me just a little knows exactly how I feel about Long Way Down. Douglass tells of his childhood and youth under a succession of slaveholders, his secret efforts to gain an education, his dawning political consciousness and his determination to escape. In this moving and beautifully written account, he lays bare a system that brutalised everyone it touched. His autobiographical Narrative – an immediate bestseller in 1845 – was soon acknowledged as a pivotal text in the struggle against slavery. Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass escaped bondage to become an abolitionist leader, orator and politician, and one of the most famous African-Americans of the 19th century. This means that although the four sleuths (including Poirot) were in the other room when the murder happened, they are the best placed to investigate. He takes a seat by the fire in one of the rooms and at some point during the evening, is murdered… By someone he already suspected of murder. Mr Shaitana divides his guests into two groups of four so they can each play a game of Bridge (in separate rooms). And the premise of the book is good: The mysterious (and often described as Mephistophelian) Mr Shaitana hosts an unusual dinner party for eight guests four of whom he suspects have gotten away with past murders and four he considers to be great detectives: ‘The four murderers and the four sleuths – Scotland Yard. I CAN confirm that although Bridge is key to the plot, not knowing the game is not a stopper to understanding the plot.ĭespite this, I have faith in Agatha and she has not let me down yet. And if – like me – you’ve never played it and don’t know anything about it, the constant references can get a bit tedious: Christie writes as if you do know the game. This book has a big focus on the card game, Bridge. Interesting, as when I started reading I feared I was going to be agreeing with Captain Hastings. His friend, Captain Hastings, however, when Poirot described it to him, considered it very dull!’ Cards on the Table has an interesting line in the foreword by Agatha Christie: ‘(this) was one of Hercule Poirot’s favourite cases. It was a huge commercial success from the moment of its publication. "He said, 'Write me a story that first-graders can't put down.' And so Seuss did and he wrote The Cat in the Hat to replace Dick and Jane. Nel says that Spaulding liked that idea and issued a challenge to Dr. Seuss write a new reading primer for the nation's schoolchildren. Hersey concluded that the "Dick and Jane" readers that most schools used were just too boring. In that article, Hersey took on a problem that was bothering Americans at the time: Why Johnny can't read. Seuss, by William Spaulding, then the director of Houghton Mifflin's educational division.Īccording to Philip Nel, author of The Annotated Cat, Spaulding had seen a 1954 Life magazine article by the writer John Hersey. The list was given to Theodor Geisel, best known as Dr. In fact, the words to The Cat in the Hat were drawn from a vocabulary list for 6- and 7-year-olds. "I liked the rhythm and the choice of words because they were not too easy and not too hard," she says. Dio, now a proficient reader, says she can remember sounding out the words to The Cat in the Hat when she was first learning to read. Cohen began reading the book to her children while they were much younger. This Deluxe Edition, which includes all sorts of extra material, collects all 16 volumes into one massive HC. I had initially read several of these issues but had never had a collected volume of them all. I'm sorry it took me so long to get around to this one, so thanks to all you guys that pushed this comic on me. The art has a tendency to look a bit blurry and watercolor-y, and you'd think that wouldn't work in a 'robot' story, but it does! It sort of softened the edges of things in a pleasant way. <-I think saying much more could ruin it for anyone who hasn't read this yet! child and a group of interesting characters that (for various reasons) are on the journey with him. This is a complex story about love, war, & family told in a sci-fi setting through the eyes of an outlawed A.I. I wanted to pinch his little android cheeks, tuck him in my purse, and take him home with me. I was really gripped by the characters - all of them. What makes us human? But the storytelling was so lovely and touching that it felt fresh. Sometimes I love his stuff, sometimes I hate his stuff, and sometimes I'm just meh about it.ĭecender falls firmly into the love it category, though. Lemire or his fans! It's just that he isn't a consistent author for me. It's not like I avoid what he writes, but I also don't actively seek him out. Jeff Lemire is not one of those go-to authors for me. |