He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), was an English medieval scholar. James published a total of 4 collections of his ghost stories Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost And Others(1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). Also available as E-Book: ePUB, 46,000 words, average reading time 3 hours, 50 min. Audiobook read by Peter Yearsley, running time 5 hours. James first collection of ghost stories, and was published in 1904. Stories included in this volume are: "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book", "Lost Hearts", "The Mezzotint", "The Ash-tree", "Number 13", "Count Magnus","'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad''", "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas". The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. James wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a collection of ghost stories by English author M.
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When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated–until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min’s irascible temper, and his own ignorance. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. Book itself looks and reads like new.Ī Single Shard, the winner of the 2002 Newbery Medal, is a tenderly rendered tale about a 12th-century Korean boy named Tree-ear, who must overcome a host of obstacles in order to attain his life's dream. Dust jacket is beautiful with some very mild wear to edges. Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. FIRST EDITION / FOURTH PRINTING CLARION BOOKS This was all very novel in 1963, and revolutionised superhero comics. Lee has related that the comic mimicked the structure of daily radio soap operas, with Parker’s home and school problems intended to be every bit as compelling as his superhero exploits. He’s a skinny, bespectacled high school kid raised by his Aunt and Uncle, tormented and ridiculed by the class jocks, and Spider-Man appears his way out. Peter Parker was intended to be ordinary. Stan Lee’s intent was to write about a hero who lived in the world as it was in the suburbs of New York in 1963. The astonishing success of the approach has rendered it commonplace ever since. These earliest issues may seem a little old-fashioned now, but in 1963 this was a quantum leap forward, and it remains the template for most solo superhero comics to this day. Spider-Man was the third of Marvel’s 1960s superhero creations, and while it’s arguable that the Fantastic Four and the Hulk, when introduced, had greater ties to Marvel’s monster material than what they’d develop into, Spider-Man sparkled from the off. He sees the people of Mittengelt as at fault for what happened to his town and his family. Accomplice by Inaction: One of the targets of Florian's revenge.The city of Elendhaven is a dying coastal city, its waters are black from pollution and corrupted with black magic, the city is still not recovered from a deadly plague that ravaged it, and everyone's business seems to be doing poorly, however, that is not enough for Florian, who has big plans to end the city once and for all, and Johann is in love with his carnage, ready to assist him with whatever he wants. The story follows Johann, a strange Humanoid Abomination with the form of a pale, lanky man, a capacity to not be perceived and be forgotten as long as he leaves the person's sight, the gift of resurrecting immediately after dying, and an instinctual drive to kill people and the sorcerer he falls for, Florian the cold and vengeful last surviving member of an old noble house with a vendetta against the city they're both living in. The Monster of Elendhaven is a 2019 horror fantasy novel by Jennifer Giesbrecht. Johann, about his relationship with Florian. There are three seasons of Jack Ryan right now and a fourth that has already been shot. Also read: Exclusive | John Krasinski reveals if he is returning as Mr Fantastic in the Marvel Cinematic Universe John Krasinski teases a Jack Ryan-John Clark crossover with Michael B Jordan. In a chat with Hindustan Times, John Krasinski, who plays Jack Ryan, talks about a possible crossover. In the last few years, both characters were brought to life in different projects, incidentally both releasing on Prime Video. In the books, the two have often collaborated. But the two characters he is best known for-Jack Ryan and John Clark-share the same fictional universe. Tom Clancy has written dozens of bestsellers over the years, spawning countless franchises. He is the founder of the field of ancient DNA studies his father was a Nobel prize-winning biologist, Sune Bergström, and his mother, Karin Pääbo, an Estonian chemist. Pääbo is Swedish/Estonian, and is currently director of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He was probably singled out for this by an early passion, not for Neanderthals as such, but for mummified humans of a later date: the ancient Egyptians. Pääbo's mission was to provide another of those "missing links" that have been so much a feature of the progress of evolutionary thought. But since it quickly became obvious that for every human gene there was an almost identical chimp gene (even mice are genetically more than 90% similar to us), the mystery of "what made us human" remained. In the 40 or so years since the genetic code for protein manufacture had been cracked, much had been already learned about many of the 24,000 or so human genes. This was a Rosetta Stone before the key had been found. But decoding was the job that hadn't been done: the raw hieroglyphics had been discovered but not yet interpreted. It was loudly trumpeted at the time of the announcement of the completion of the first human genome survey that we had "decoded the Book of Life". Both have vehemently denied the allegations. As a result, Andrew can no longer use “His Royal Highness” in any capacity, a royal source told NBC News at the time, and gave up a dozen military titles and more than 100 patronages.įollow coronation ceremony live updates hereĪndrew, 63, has also been marred by his alleged associations with Middle Eastern dictators and corrupt leaders, and by accusations that he was part of a “cash for access” scam with his former wife, Sarah Ferguson. In a brutal and humiliating exercise in damage control, in 2022, Queen Elizabeth stripped her second son of his military titles and patronages. He also declared that he never meant to malign her character. Buckingham Palace said in a statement that Andrew would fight the case “as a private citizen.” Andrew and Giuffre would later reach a legal settlement in which he agreed to make a substantial donation to her charity in support of victims’ rights. In August 2021, a judge in the United States allowed a civil lawsuit brought by Giuffre to proceed. Historical details in The Piano Lesson highlight matters of structural injustice faced by African Americans in the Depression Era. At the time of his death from cancer in 2005, he was married to a costume designer named Costanza Romero. Ten of Wilson’s best-known and most critically acclaimed plays formed the Pittsburgh Cycle, with each play focusing on one decade of the African American experience. Eight years later, Fences garnered both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award the following year, The Piano Lesson followed suit with another Pulitzer. Paul, Minnesota in 1978 and began writing plays instead. After some initial efforts at poetry, Wilson moved to St. A few years later, he cofounded the Black Horizon Theater in Pittsburgh. After his father’s death when Wilson was 20, he took the name August Wilson and began writing. He faced prejudice while attending Catholic school, being one of few African American students, and eventually dropped out to study in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Wilson always identified strongly with his mother’s Black heritage and culture. Wilson’s parents divorced while he was young, and he and his five siblings remained with their mother in Pittsburgh, where they lived in predominantly poor Black and Jewish neighborhoods. August Wilson’s mother, Daisy Wilson, was African American woman his father, Frederick Kittel, was of Sudeten German origins (Germans living in what was then Bohemia). She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.Īt this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes. Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd- looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. Beloved for her gorgeous cookbooks, A Kitchen in France and French Country Cooking, Mimi Thorisson, along with her lively family and smooth fox terriers in tow, immersed readers in the warmth of their convivial lives in rural France.Old World Italian: Recipes and Secrets from Our Travels in Italy: A Cookbook by Mimi Thorisson : This cookbook came out in the September of 2020 and quickly rose in popularity, with both Chowhound and Epicurious naming it one of the fall’s best cookbooks.And here are a few cookbooks that can help you do just that. A survey by YouGov found that 84% of people listed Italian as their absolute favorite cuisine.īut if you’re only boiling up some spaghetti and throwing some jarred pasta sauce on top of it, it may be time to add to your Italian cooking repertoire. If Italian food is your favorite – you’re not alone. What’s your favorite type of cuisine? Are you a fan of Thai? Do you love Indian food? Is Mexican food on your menu a couple of nights each week? Or, are you like a lot of people, and Italian food is your go-to? |