![]() Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact.Ī unique witness to landmark moments in royal history, Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret until her death in 2002, Anne's life has encompassed extraordinary drama and tragedy. ![]() Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed "the greatest disappointment" and unable to inherit. Discover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner-a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.Īnne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For 18 years Ioana Parvulescu was the editor of one of Romania’s leading literary magazines, “Literary Romania.” With the Humanitas Publishers she initiated and coordinated the world literature collection “The Book on the Bedside Table.” She is the author of a string of essays that have been reprinted several times, among which, “A Return to the Inter-War Bucharest” ( 2003), “In the Intimacy of the 19th Century” ( 2005) “ The Book of Questions” ( 2010). Ioana Parvulescu is an Associate Professor with the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Letters where she teaches modern Romanian literature. As well as helping these writers to reach new audiences, our aim is to introduce readers to great new European literature and offer them more choice. “ The European Union Prize for Literature draws international attention to fantastic new or emerging authors, who might otherwise not gain the recognition they deserve outside their home country. The distinction is awarded in token of recognition for the best emerging authors from across Europe.Īnnouncing their names at the opening session of the Book Fair in Goteborg was the European commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou. Ioana Parvulescu is among the 12 awardees of the European Union’s Prize for Literature in 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The sudden arrival of a mysterious warrior named Tristan upends the lives of all three siblings. Cador’s children, Riva, Sinne, and Keyne, are the only hope to restore the kingdom’s vigor, but each struggles with their own inner battles: Riva blames herself for her childhood scars, Sinne fancies a fairy-tale love, and Keyne fights against his parents’ preconceptions of his gender and struggles to get them to accept him identifying as a man. His lands retaliate by yielding a poor harvest, and without magic, Dumnonia is vulnerable to invasion by the Saxon army. Holland ( Firestorm) delivers an enchanting queer retelling of the English murder ballad “The Twa Sisters.” King Cador of the kingdom of Dumnonia in ancient Britain has turned his back on magic in favor of Christianity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These novels include the Private prequel collection, which focuses on various figures, and the spin-off series Privilege, which follows the resourceful but disturbed Ariana Osgood. The series has companion works, set in the past and the future, which are dedicated to further exploring character. However, it is often only after the details of another character's background have been revealed that Brennan can understand what motivates them, which will occasionally leave her conflicted in her judgments. Extreme cases of loyalty and antagonism are personified in characters such as Noelle Lange and Ivy Slade-to degrees that are sometimes questioned or denounced by the narrator. Thematically, moral ambiguity is a prominent feature of Brian's work. As the series progresses, several matters surrounding mystery, morality, and romance arise. ![]() The books chronicle the rise of ambitious teenager Reed Brennan, the series' narrator, as she becomes a member of her new school's elite dorm-composed of a glamorous yet disparate group of teens known as the Billings Girls. Private is a series of young-adult novels by American author Kate Brian, beginning with 2006's entry of the same name. The first book (center), the first prequel (left), and the spin-off. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The curriculum for "physical training" included much more than athletics. In 1923, she returned to Inverness permanently to care for her invalid mother, and stayed after her mother's death that year to keep house for her father. A youthful romance ended with her soldier friend's death in the Somme battles. She taught physical training at various schools in England and Scotland and during her vacations worked at a convalescent home in Inverness as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She attended Inverness Royal Academy and then, in 1914, Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. ![]() MacKintosh was born in Inverness, the oldest of three daughters of Colin MacKintosh, a fruiterer, and Josephine ( née Horne). Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run. Her novel The Daughter of Time was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When it comes to gathering evidence about the medieval past for historic evidence about the Vikings life styles, women, myths, burial procedures or fighting styles, Eater of the Dead is a better source to get information than Beowulf. Eaters of the Dead was written as a manuscript by Ibn Fadlan about his encounters with the Northmen. Beowulf is written as a poem and was meant to be told as a source of entertainment in a king's court. Even though the two stories are similar in structure, they are told in two different ways. They both deal with monsters, sea serpents, dragons, a great hall and one fearless warrior named Beowulf in Beowulf and Buliwyf in Eaters of the Dead. It seems to be one story that has been changed in some aspects, but for the most part it carries the same big events in the story line. ![]() After reading Beowulf and Eaters of the Dead, it is easy to see that both stories are very similar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile January decides to build a walled garden and he is the only one to possess the key. Yet there is a serpent in Eden and his name is Damian, the knight’s squire who is so enamoured of May “that for the very pain he was nearly crazy.” January, believing that Damian is truly sick, visits him with May, whereupon Damian secretly give her a letter and she learns of his passion for her. Chaucer ensures that the descriptions of January are unflattering and lecherous, to place the reader into May’s viewpoint, and as January spends hours satisfying his passion with her and assuring her that he can do no wrong in the eyes of the law, she finally takes to her room and locks herself in for four days. The wedding is described in detail, but January wishes it to end so he can slake his amorous desires on his new wife. and, of course, Chaucer’s playful spirit. Justinus assures him that will not be the case, and, in fact, he can take comfort in the fact that his marriage will probably be a purgatory.Īnd so “tender youth has wedded stooping age” and all around them is mirth …. ![]() It is said men cannot experience bliss twice and he is concerned that all the happiness he is sure to find with his wife, will then be denied to him in Heaven. He finds the perfect wife in May, a poor yet fair girl, but January is tormented by another thought. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only later were other powerful people such as bishops and kings also unearthed after their deaths. In this respect, each fetishist, however enlightened he pretends to be, pays homage to relic worship.Īt first, this dismemberment only happened to saints, in accordance with the belief that in paradise the body will become whole again. ![]() Relic worship began in the Middle Ages with the adoration of the bones of martyrs and was based on the belief that the body parts of saints possessed a special power. The division of the body that we carry out here brings to mind the worship of relics. On the other hand, the body as a whole is still the sum of its parts. Each individual part can become a focus of erotic passion, an object of fetishist adoration. ![]() Musée du Louvre, Paris Love’s BodyĪs we fragment the body, we make its parts the subject of a fetish. Portrait of Carlotta Chabert (Venus playing with two doves)Īnonymous, Roman copy of a Greek original created during the 2nd century B.C.E. Manao Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching) Illustration from Dante’s Divine Comedy, “The Thieves and the Serpents”, Inferno XXIV, 88-100 THE REALM OF THE MOONS OF FLESH: A JOURNEY INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUSĪrabesque Over the Right Leg, Right Hand Near the Ground, Left Arm Outstrechedįemale Nude with Long Hair Leaning Backward ![]() ![]() ¿Qué harías si ni siquiera tus pensamientos más íntimos estuvieran a salvo Los Ángeles 2050: La humanidad vive conectada a la NET. Sube tu PDF en FlipHTML5 y crea un flipbook como Bluescreen, de Dan Wells. ![]() But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected. Comparte y descarga Bluescreen, de Dan Wells gratis. And it's Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen-a virtual drug that plugs right into a person's djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. She might spend her days in Mirador, but she lives on the net-going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen-and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. That connection is a djinni-a smart device implanted right in a person's head. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is just plain awesome."-James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. "Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. ![]() |