![]() ![]() It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. The Battle of Life is an 1846 novel by Charles Dickens. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. The sudden return of his wife and daughter presents Henchard with a chance to finally make things right-or doom himself forever. But when Henchard falls in love with a young woman on a trip to the island of Jersey, his inability to marry her threatens to destroy her reputation. ![]() Eighteen years later, he is the wealthy-and sober-mayor of Casterbridge, his terrible secret buried deep in the past. The next morning, Henchard swears off drink. He sells his family to a sailor for five guineas, a monstrous crime that marks him for a lifetime of guilt and pain. At the town fair, Henchard quarrels with his wife and drunkenly auctions her and his daughter to the assembled crowd. Summary A captivating story of love and regret from the author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native Young farm worker Michael Henchard arrives in Casterbridge, Wessex, with his wife and child, looking for a job. READ The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy ![]()
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She has never met him but has had contact with her father through letters and presents on her birthday. Mal (from Tolka, Ireland) and Rory (from NJ, USA) meet when she travels to Dublin after the death of her father. It’s hard to write a review for this kind of book without giving anything major away, because that’s what you need to do, go into this book completely blind. ITUE is so unlike any of the other LJ Shen book she has written, and she fully admitted that before releasing. ![]() I was saving In The Unlikely Event for closer to Christmas, and finally read it a few days before, but it didn’t really have that much of a Christmassy vibe like I was thinking, but I am glad I had the chance to be able to sit and read it in one go. “Sometimes you meet people who are out of this world, so you make them a part of yours.” ![]() ![]() As neighbor turns against neighbor, Jinx begins to realize that when it comes to high society, murder really is ugly. Jinx finds herself embroiled in a web of suspense and deceit as a series of grisly crimes sweeps through the community, revealing dark secrets and tearing apart the residents’ seemingly perfect lives. However, upon her arrival at the Brookefield’s exclusive community, she begins to suspect that not everything is as perfect as the members of the wealthy, picturesque neighborhood would like her to believe. When Jinx Delaney accepted her friend’s, Brynn Brookefield, invitation to spend the summer with Brynn and her family she expected a relaxed, fun, horse-filled getaway that would hopefully help her find direction and get her life back on track. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author idolized his father, nevertheless, and pined to become “smart and strong and brave” just like Thurston, sometimes perversely winning his praise for ungovernable mischievousness. Thelma Lou was mentally disturbed, and her combination of incompetence and motherly negligence consistently endangered her children. Thurston finally forced Crow to orchestrate their abandonment of her. When Crow was not yet 4 years old, Thurston confided in him that he would soon get rid of Thelma Lou, the author’s mother. He was also an unrepentant thief who recruited the author to be his accomplice in crime. ![]() Thurston spent time in prison for nearly beating a man to death and often bragged about other murders he committed or planned to perpetrate. A writer recollects an astonishingly dysfunctional childhood under the violent, criminal tyranny of his father.Īccording to debut author Crow, his father, Thurston, was as intelligent as he was dangerous-apparently the bearer of an uncommonly high IQ, he was also alarmingly volatile. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of the nature of his first audience, he made his style of writing as descriptive as possible, painting pictures with words so that the schoolchildren could see them in their imaginations. He wrote Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where as a truck driver, he delivered milk. He had always loved to write, but it was only then that he realized he had a talent for it. When young Brian refused to falsely say that he had copied the story, he was caned as "a liar". Brian's teacher could not, and would not believe that a ten year old could write so well. John's foreshadowed his future career as an author given an assignment to write a story about animals, he wrote a short story about a bird who cleaned a crocodile's teeth. At the age of ten, his very first day at St. John's School, an inner city school featuring a playground on its roof. Along with forty percent of the population of Liverpool, his ancestral roots are in Ireland, County Cork to be exact.īrian grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks, where he attended St. Brian Jacques (pronounced 'jakes') was born in Liverpool, England on June 15th, 1939. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential. Using these marvelous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, Dr. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, aging brains rejuvenated, stroke patients learning to speak, children with cerebral palsy learning to move with more grace, depression and anxiety disorders successfully treated, and lifelong character traits changed. The Brain That Changes Itself is an informative and readable journey into the history, science and consequences of recent research in neuroplasticity - the brains incredible ability to change and reorganise itself - by psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and researcher, Norman Doidge. ![]() Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, MD, traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed - people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Catherine of Siena, Undset says, “If a man loves God, he will be able to love his neighbor, attain wisdom, and to be just and truthful. For Sigrid, the saints were loci of Revelation and living Beatitudes, capable of communicating the love of God with great persuasion, and so making a culture more and more Christian. Indeed, she understood her own Norse culture to have been transformed-converted-by the saints. So I had to submit.” In this experience of God’s friends, Undset considered herself just one of the many who were so affected by the saints. Undset had converted to Catholicism (from Atheism) in 1924, and when asked about her conversion, she replied, “I had ventured too near the abode of truth in my research about ‘God’s friends,’ as the saints are called in Old Norse texts. Undset won the Nobel Prize in 1928 for her trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. ![]() Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) was herself an artist and a convert. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger once reported that “the only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb.” In this month marked by the feast of All Saints, I wish to take up examples of the truth of Ratzinger’s statement, one from the literary arts and one from the visual arts, both related to the saints. ![]() ![]() Lewis provides a synopsis of the myth in an appended note. The subtitle of the book is A Myth Retold, referring to the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Till We Have Faces may be more obscure than some of Lewis’s other works, but its complexity and depth make it a challenging read for all the right reasons. ![]() An author’s lasting enthusiasm about a work can, I think, indicate similar quality. If the professor is enthusiastic about teaching the class, there’s a very good chance it will be particularly enjoyable and worthwhile for the students. I compare it to the way I’ve been excited every time when, on the first day of a college class, a professor lets slip that this class - the one that I’m in right now - is his or her favorite of the quarter. Lewis said he considered Till We Have Faces his best-written book. It is, however, the one Lewis called his favorite. Yet beyond the widely read Chronicles of Narnia, it’s still a better wager that any given person has read Mere Christianity, or The Screwtape Letters, or The Great Divorce, and probably even Lewis’s space trilogy, rather than Till We Have Faces. ![]() The recent movies based on two of the Narnia books have probably given them a secure place as Lewis’s best known. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though these parallels are often simple, they are always grounded by clever insight and complex, well-crafted characters. The Discworld universe is beautifully complex, mirroring themes and events from literature and history, yet always functioning as a unique world with its own internal logic. Terry Pratchett, for those not in the know, is a prolific English author, best known for Discworld, his ongoing comedic fantasy series of novels. ![]() Hogfather is an adaption of a Terry Pratchett book of the same name. ![]() Teatime (Marc Warren) play in all this? Will Death ever get the hang of “Ho, ho, ho”? ![]() Will Susan save the Hogfather? What role does the creepy assassin Mr. Magic and mayhem abound, with the added bonus of a very thoughtful examination of the ways that belief eases our relationship to reality. As Death learns the true meaning of Hogswatch, Susan’s investigation takes her to the Unseen University, home of Discworld’s foremost wizards, and eventually to the Tooth Fairy’s castle. He decides to take up the Hogfather’s mantle, and “forbids” his slightly supernatural granddaughter Susan (Michelle Dockery) from looking into the Jolly Fat Man’s disappearance. Irregularities like humans, of which Death has become rather fond. He suspects foul play by the Auditors of Everything, who want to eradicate all irregularities from the universe. The Plot: When the Hogfather (Shend) goes missing on the night before Hogswatch (Discworld’s version of Christmas), Death (Ian Richardson) begins investigating. ![]() |