5/31/2023 0 Comments Swallows and amazons first edition![]() ![]() There is also the British-based group, The Arthur Ransome Society, which has an international membership.The series begins with Swallows and Amazons, published in 1930. The first one to be founded was the Arthur Ransome Club in Japan. There are also several societies dedicated to the study and promotion of Ransome's work which are largely inspired by the series. It contributes to the tourist industry in the Lake District and Norfolk Broads areas of England, where many of the books are set. changed British literature, affected a whole generation's view of holidays, helped to create the national image of the English Lake District and added Arthur Ransome's name to the select list of classic British children's authors". Literary scholar Peter Hunt said he believes the series ". The stories revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. ![]() The twelve books involve adventures by groups of children, almost all during the school holidays and mostly in England, but including four sailing trips that go outside England. The Swallows and Amazons series is a series of twelve children's books by English author Arthur Ransome, named after the title of the first book in the series and set between the two World Wars. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments John norman tarnsman of gor![]() ![]() ![]() Lara desires the throne herself, and gets the high priest Xenos to agree to help assassinate Marlenus. At a feast that night, Marlenus announces that he will soon step down from the throne, and names Cabot to succeed him. After fending off a brief attack by slavers, Cabot meets Talena, and also discovers that her father, King Marlenus, is now married to an ambitious woman named Lara. Cabot is overjoyed at the thought of being reunited with his lover Talena, and the townspeople of Koruba are similarly overjoyed at Cabot's return. The Elder initiates the teleportation from Gor using a rose quartz (the Home Stone) because of suspicions that Xeno, the Priest, has eyes for the throne. Watney insists on accompanying Cabot to his next drinking spot, and Cabot's ring activates during the car journey transporting both him and Watney to Gor. While drinking alone one night, reminiscing of his previous adventures on the planet Gor, Professor Tarl Cabot comes across Watney Smith, a fellow professor with a keen interest in women, yet little success in pursuing them. A sequel to Gor, it is loosely based on the Gor novel series by John Norman, but has strong plot and qualitative differences from the original 1967 book Outlaw of Gor. ![]() Outlaw of Gor (also known as Gor II) is a 1988 adventure fantasy science fiction film directed by John "Bud" Cardos. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Fates and furies review![]() * Guardian (Books of the Year) *Ī lyrical and, at times, astonishingly beautiful account of how little it is possible to know about those closest to us. Publisher: Cornerstone ISBN: 9780099592532 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 277 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĮnough betrayal, vengeance and sex to read like one of the Greek tragedies * Observer * Barack Obama proclaimed Fates and Furies the best novel he read in 2015, Amazon declared it its book of the year, and it featured on more best-of end-of-year lists than any other title published that same year. Written in the third person, which makes it feel solidly believable, it is a work of two parts: Fates is handsome, charismatic Lotto’s story, in which he tells of the electric beginning and building of his 24-year marriage to Mathilde Furies is his wife’s version, which cleverly undercuts Lotto’s knowledge and memory of events, and shows her orchestration and manipulation of their life together – as well as how she has maintained her secrets within it. Yet while it examines, as those two titles did, how little even two people living together as man and wife can truly know each other, Fates and Furies is significantly different for being less a thriller and more a beautiful work of literary fiction. Reviews of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies almost unanimously mention both Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, because like them it involves a death, and like them it intimate knowledge of a marriage its subject. ![]() |