![]() ![]() She was also uneasy because he was writing it for a "shilling shocker" series of novels. "It's my belief that she thought Dr Jekyll, which was partly based on a dream, was not worthy of him. Yesterday, Liz Merry head of Phillips's book department, said the writer's wife apparently threw the manuscript on the fire because "she considered Dr Jekyll and the duality of man rather distasteful. The letter is expected to fetch some £1,500 at auction at Phillips in London on November 17. He is still known for the lines: "I am the master of my fate,/I am the captain of my soul". Henley, who was one-legged, was the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. It was written by her in 1885 to Stevenson's close friend and fellow poet WE Henley. ![]() Some 115 years later, Fanny's deed has been disclosed in a two-page letter on pages torn from a notebook. For the first time, the couple had enough money to live comfortably. It rescued the Stevensons from acute debt. It was pirated in the US and in translation. Sermons were preached on it in thousands of churches, including St Paul's cathedral, London. Despite Fanny's view, it was an instant bestseller. Within weeks, the new version of his pioneering novel about split personality was in print. Stevenson, an invalid almost deranged by tuberculosis and the effects of medicinal cocaine, had to spend the next three days feverishly rewriting and redrafting the 30,000-word story by hand. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Son of Zeus and Semele The Myths of His Epiphany The God Who Comes The Symbol of the Mask Pandemonium and Silence The World Bewitched The Somber Madness Modern Theories The Mad God The Vine Dionysus Revealed in Vegetative Nature Dionysus and the Element of Moisture Diony sus and the Women Ariadneġ7. h.s.e.Ĭopyright © 1965 by Indiana University Press Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 65-11792 Manufactured in the United States of AmericaĬontents by Robert B. Walterus Otto summarum artium liberalium litterarum studiis utriusque linguae perfecte eruditus, musarum semper amator, v. Indiana University Press BLOOMINGTON AND LONDONĭ.M.S. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1941. ![]() Detail from a wine cup attributed to Pheidippos (ca. Translated with an Introduction by ROBERT B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on years of research, this is the first book in a generation that brings everything together, sorts it all out, makes informed judgments, and takes stands. ![]() From the first gleam in Lee's eye to the last Rebel hightailing it back across the Potomac, every moment of the battle is brought to life with the vivid narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that has made Stephen Sears's histories so successful. In Gettysburg, Sears tells the whole story in a single volume. ![]() Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle-even on single charges-or on the daily lives of the soldiers. The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation's history. A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s also collaborating on one-off projects such as Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at Crow’s Head (out now) with artist Rachele Aragno. And Mignola isn’t just working on projects with Hellboy. Anastasia Bransfield for a goblin train heist story. But Mignola still has a lot in store for the big man, especially in the new series Hellboy In Love, coming October 19, that sees Hellboy reuniting with Dr. ![]() There’s even a documentary coming out about Mignola’s iconic work that’s playing across the country this spooky season. Hellboy has been in the pop culture zeitgeist since 1993 and has been adapted onto the big screen a few times. The comics then follow Hellboy and other members of the bureau saving humanity from supernatural threats. But, he grew up in the care of a nice British man who just so happens to found the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD). Mike Mignola is the creative mind behind the big, red hero known as Hellboy, a half-demon brought to Earth as a baby by Nazi occultists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the financier Carmody's explanation to Pickering of his leveraged economic circumstances could not have sounded more familiar to 21st century Americans. Please feel free to comment on any character, scene or aspect of the book that interests you.įor example, I was intrigued by Si's exposure to 1880s era food, which, we are told, had so much more flavor than the processed and packaged food of 1970, sentiments that are commonly expressed today by organic and local food enthusiasts but would have been heard less frequently 40 years ago. If you've been reading the book, why not share your thoughts with us through the comments form at the end of the post? There are some discussion questions (which include a few spoilers!) that can be used as a starting point, but don't feel obligated to stick to them. ![]() Welcome back to the Reader's Den! I hope you enjoyed taking a trip to the New York of 1882 along with Si Morley, the protagonist in Jack Finney's classic 1970 novel, Time and Again. "It had become habit, leaving the Dakota, to walk out and back into the winter of 1882." ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus I think she’d appreciate a loud, ridiculous, loving family. I think it’d be so much fun to have her over for a tea party full of gossip and judgment. ![]() Lana Lee from Vivien Chien’s Noodle Shop Mystery series – anybody who can appreciate a good bowl of noodles the way Lana does is always welcome at Tita Rosie’s.Ĭharlotte Holmes from Sherry Thomas’s Lady Sherlock series – Charlotte is someone who appreciates food, particularly sweets, and it would be hilarious to have her turn her sharp insight toward the aunties and Lola Flor.Įlizabeth Bennett from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – I’m super basic and absolutely love Lizzie. I’m sure Lila and her family would love to take her under their wing and introduce her to the world of Filipino food. Odessa Dean from Olivia Blacke’s Killer Content – she’s a small-town transplant currently living in NYC and has been expanding her palate (and crime-solving skills) ever since moving there. ![]() The Book Smugglers: If you could host a dinner party with characters from your book at Tita Rosie’s, and any other characters from any other fictional world: who and why? And, what would you serve? ![]() ![]() And the Indian economist Amartya Sen is certainly very close to embodying the human development position better than anyone else. All the same, human development is perhaps not too far off a workable median either, at least potentially. ![]() As should by now be clear, there is no single panacea to the problems and pitfalls of development. This does not mean that we have arrived at some point of optimal balance, an approach containing just the right mix of pragmatism and hope, or just the right way to mix markets and states together. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They were the scary things that were trying to eat the good people,” Kristoff explains during a wide-ranging conversation with Den of Geek. “When I was a kid, vampires were the monsters under the bed. In this story, the first in a new epic fantasy trilogy, vampires are 100% terrifying again, vicious monsters who kill violently and indiscriminately, and whose powers mean that few humans are capable of standing against them for long. ![]() Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula may have sparked a particular vein of horror story that continues to this day (looking at you, American Horror Story: Double Feature), but Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, changed how audiences relate to bloodsuckers forever and plenty of contemporary vampire tales have continued to cast the creatures as broody, desirous, long-suffering anti-heroes burdened by the weight of immortality.īut don’t expect bestselling Australian author Jay Kristoff’s new book, Empire of the Vampire, to follow this modern trend. ![]() (The earliest references to blood-drinking creatures date back to ancient Mesopotamia, believe it or not.) But the way we relate to these creatures has shifted throughout the centuries, as legends, folklore, and popular culture have adapted to the needs and fears specific to respective societies. As a species, humans have more or less always been obsessed with vampires. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn't just that I had a gay father- I had no mother, no siblings. "When I was a child, I struggled with feeling different. Abbott says she was the only child among adults-and the only girl among men. The pair moved frequently, amidst a cast of revolving roommates and very little structure. In her book “Fairyland,” writer Alysia Abbott details a nomadic life of adventure with her father- in a community of gay men looking for liberation. She hopes her story will spark more lead to more open minds and hearts about different lifestyles. Now, Abbott has written a memoir about her childhood, called “Fairyland”-and she’s also planning speaking engagements this weekend in Roanoke. Then the 80s saw the plague of AIDS sweep through her father’s community of friends. Her mother died when she was two years old, so she was raised by her father-a gay writer-in San Francisco’s bustling cultural scene of the 1970s. Writer Alysia Abbott did not have the most ordinary of childhoods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Almost 30 years ago he moved to New York, where he teaches at Hunter College. Written in the form of a letter from Kelly to his unborn daughter, it's a persuasive portrait of a complicated yet sympathetic man.Ĭarey was born in a rural town called Bacchus Marsh in the state of Victoria in 1943. The story reimagines the life of one of Australia's renegade heroes, the legendary 19th-century outlaw Ned Kelly. First for his novel Oscar and Lucinda, and then for True History of the Kelly Gang, which sold more than two million copies worldwide, and is being made into a movie starring Russell Crowe and George MacKay. Find our recent feature with Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel here.Īustralian novelist Peter Carey is one of the few writers to win the Man Booker - Britain's most important literary prize - twice. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of England's Man Booker Prize, Writers & Company presents a special lineup of Booker Prize winners from our archives. ![]() |