![]() ![]() After Albert's early death Victoria set about creating an enduring legend of her marriage and inevitably emerged as both heroine and victor. ![]() Her book is the story not just of a marriage and a family but also of the way in which Victoria appeared to grant Albert precedence but ultimately came to control the relationship. ![]() She is particularly good on the couple's later life and their relationships with their many children. Gill grippingly recounts the tensions and negotiations between Victoria and Albert, both in politics and in intimate and domestic life, as they tried to reconcile this contradiction. She makes us understand that it was a union constantly pulled between two contradictory imperatives: the need for the Queen to be supreme head of state and Albert her subject, and the requirement that the nineteenth-century wife should be her husband's subordinate in every way. "Gillian Gill has written a superbly accessible account of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Jefferies after london![]() ![]() ![]() Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, August Derleth, Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor & Gustavus W. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Philip K. Weinbaum, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, H. ![]() Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Forster, Anthony Trollope, Richard Stockham, Irving E. previous 1 2 3 4 5 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 5 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, E. Books by Richard Jefferies (Author of After London) Books by Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies Average rating 3.43 1,684 ratings 265 reviews shelved 8,512 times Showing 30 distinct works. Cutcliffe Hyne, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ayn Rand, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Edwin A. ![]() E-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted SF collection, jam-packed with the dystopian worlds, intergalactic action-adventures, and the greatest Sci-Fi classics:Ī Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading The Pull of the Stars now is such a disquieting experience - and certainly a very different one than it would've been had the novel come earlier. In doing a deep dive into the miseries and terrors of the past, Donoghue presciently anticipated the miseries and terrors of our present: the claustrophobia of days spent inside, empty schools and cafes, and the ubiquity of masks, here quaintly described as "bluntly pointed. Understandably, her publishers fast-tracked the publication of The Pull of the Stars, which is set in a maternity ward in 1918 in Dublin, a city hollowed out by the flu, World War I and the 1916 Irish Uprising. Donoghue delivered the final draft to her publishers this past March, just as a stunned world was taking in the enormity of the coronavirus crisis. ![]() Readers are awaiting novels of the pandemic, and Emma Donoghue just may have stumbled into writing one of the first.Īs Donoghue explains in the author's note to her new novel, The Pull of the Stars, she began writing the story in 2018, inspired by the centenary of the Spanish Flu pandemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Parker, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria "V. Vampires Never Get Old includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire-and a revolution on the page. In this delicious new collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out-and going out for their first kill-and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Stories that stake a new claim on old tropes." - Publishers Weekly, starred review Schwab's First Kill, now a major Netflix adaptation! ![]() Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction's leading voices fill this bestselling anthology-including V.E. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Kulti by mariana zapata![]() ![]() they're both each other's equals don't tell me otherwise ✧ more spicy than other MZ books // i've read all of MZ books and these two have the most smut scenes ![]() ✧ slowburn & top tier romantic development // no seriously, this is very slowburn ✧ celebrity crush // kulti is sal's celebrity crush since she was a kid ✧ forbidden romance // kulti is sal's soccer coach i love wall of winnipeg and me, vanessa and aiden are my babies but there's just something so. if a book doesn't have the whole strangers to enemies to rivals to acquaintances to hesitant friendship to full-on friendship to best friends to girl is oblivious that guy is in love with her but we readers know that the guy is in love with her to lovers then i don't want it. ![]() but this book ruined every other slowburn book for me tho. did we read the same book? because the math ain't mathing. Reread #573986 - nah i've been seeing too many people on tiktok slandering this mz book and my feelings are hurt. ![]() ![]() ![]() The experience of seeing how easily the family banded together, despite the fact that some of them had never even met before, served as an inspirational factor when she wrote her first novel Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa. In 1990, when her grandmother was dying in Puerto Rico, she joined her immediate family and other members of the family who traveled from Florida, New York, and other places to the island to be with her. Even though she was raised in the Jewish faith (her mother, who was a Catholic, converted before she married her father), she always maintained a good relationship and remained close to her Puerto Rican Catholic family. Ostow was born in New York City to a Jewish-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. She has also been the ghostwriter for novelizations of television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and Fearless. ![]() Her first original hardcover novel, Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa, was named a " New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age". Micol Ostow (born April 29, 1976) is an American author, editor and educator who has written more than 40 published works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gra�a, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate. The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride-and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other. NPRĮchoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga.- O, The Oprah MagazineĮnveloping.Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship, and she writes so vividly about samba that you close the book certain its heroine's voices must exist beyond the page. I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. Glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Riverrun by danton remoto![]() ![]() More importantly, he has co-edited the Ladlad series with J. He edited Buena Vista, 1989 and co-ed., Gems in Philippine Literature, 1989. He has won various awards, among them, the ASEAN prize for the essay, 1979 the Palanca for the essay in 1987 the CCP literary award for poetry the Stirling District Arts Council award for poetry and the short story.Īmong his works: Skin, Voices, Faces, Anvil, 1991 Black Silk Pajamas / Poems in English and Filipino, Anvil, 1996. He was an associate of PLAC and a member of the Manila Critics Circle since 1989. Remoto teaches at AdMU where he manages the Office of Research and Publishing. ![]() He was at Hawthornden Castle, 1993, and later, at the Cambridge Seminar. He was a Local fellow for poetry at the UP Creative Writing Center, 1994. With his Robert Southwell scholarship, Remoto obtained his MA English Lit., 1989 then, on a British Council fellowship, another MA in publishing studies, 1990, at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was an ASEAN scholar at the AdMU where he obtained his AB Interdisciplinary Studies in 1983. ![]() Danton Remoto was born on 25 March 1963 in Basa Air Base, Pampanga. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Neverwhere![]() ![]() Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere-a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. He stops to help her-an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. ![]() It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. ![]() , heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Tale, "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back". , the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introduction to Gaiman's adult fiction.American readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along." -īestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"-and including his special "Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing.For those who have not read ![]() ![]() ![]() It is inconceivable to ask African countries, for example, which today account for only 2% of carbon emissions, to continue living in poverty in order to avoid a climate disaster. ![]() The fight against global warming must take these issues into account, and must not condemn human beings to live in poverty. This makes promoting the economic development of the poorest regions vital. He states that it is imperative that every individual has access to electricity, transport and quality food. Gates also reconciles the fight against poverty with the fight against climate change. Carbon could be removed either at the source of the emission or in the atmosphere. He defines this as reducing emissions as much as possible, in combination with carbon removal techniques. ![]() He also explains that achieving “zero emissions” does not mean that our economic activities will no longer result in carbon emissions, but that we are talking about net zero emissions. ![]() He explains with great clarity that reducing our emissions will not be enough, because as long as carbon accumulates in the atmosphere, temperatures will continue to rise, threatening all life on this planet. Bill Gates’ entire argument is based on a single fact : the need to aim for carbon neutrality. ![]() |