![]() ![]() ![]() Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer, is introduced by his crowning as Pope of Fools.Įsméralda, a beautiful 16-year-old gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men but especially Quasimodo’s adopted father, Claude Frollo. The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this. The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the Archdeacon (Claude Frollo). It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It’s this restraint - as intelligent as it is compassionate - that elevates The Arsonist from slick true-crime procedural to cultural time capsule. The elemental terror of Black Saturday requires little embellishment, only the quiet dignity of witness. But first, Hooper takes us into the belly of the beast: birds falling from the sky with their wings burning beehives combusting from the radiant heat farewell texts escaping from fire-ravaged homes. ![]() With propulsive energy, The Arsonist follows the case against Sokaluk, a 39-year-old former volunteer firefighter, from the arson investigation’s first frantic hours to the courtroom verdict. Chloe Hooper, The arsonist: A mind on fire (BookReview) Janu/ whisperinggums It may not have been the most sensible decision to read Chloe Hooper’s book, The arsonist, during Australia’s worst-ever bushfire week, but in fact I picked it up a few days before the crisis became evident, and once I started I couldn’t put it down. The latest book by the Australian writer tells the story of just one of the Black Saturday bushfires, a blaze deliberately lit on the outskirts of Churchill in the Latrobe Valley - coal country. We speak of flanks, fingers, tails and tongues, Chloe Hooper observes in The Arsonist, of a predatory, devouring hunger. To describe a bushfire is to describe a monster. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as conspiracy and danger circle closer, Alaric must make an impossible choice. The wicked glint in his green eyes ignites a passion that will follow them back to Alaric’s keep, where their forbidden love draws them deeper into the pleasures of the flesh. When the wounded warrior falls from his horse, she is drawn to his strong, lean body. Miraculously, his life is saved by the soft touch of a Highland angel, a courageous beauty who will put his fealty to his clan, his honor, and his deepest desires, to the test.Īn outcast from her own clan, Keeley McDonald was betrayed by those she loved and trusted. But on his way to claim the hand of Rionna McDonald, daughter of a neighboring chieftain, he is ambushed and left for dead. Now, he is prepared to wed for duty, as well. ![]() A warrior is caught between family loyalty and forbidden love in book two of Maya’s sensual new trilogy featuring three indomitable Highlanders.įiercely loyal to his elder brother, Alaric McCabe leads his clan in the fight for their birthright. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the year 1000, we start to see trade across great distances, despite the fact that nobody had sophisticated transportation technology. The Silk Road was an early harbinger which showed the promise of exchange with neighbors in the centuries before 1000. New routes linked the continents together. The Vikings cross from Greenland to what is today Canada. People embarked on ocean travel, who hadn’t strayed far previously. ![]() ![]() A wave of Islam came to Northwest China as part of that movement. The answer is yes.Īround the year 1000, people around the globe started to realize for the first time that they could leave home, travel to other places, find out about their neighbors and adopt new approaches. So, I embarked on a five year investigation into that question. I started wondering if these momentous changes were connected in any way. And that the Chinese signed a treaty with Northern people called the Liao around 1000 which set up conditions for change. I knew that the Vikings touched down in Canada around the year 1000. The region, which had been Buddhist up until then, was conquered by Muslim rulers. In the book, I write about an oasis called Khotan, in the northwest corner of China, that fell to Islamic armies just after the year 1000. “My Silk Road book ends around the year 1000. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]() ![]() (7.9 x 10.1 in.) Edition: Sale: Estimate: Price: Bid Department: Catalogue. By the next year he had achieved some measure of fame in this medium, with the publication of an article on his breakthrough approach by Octave Uzanne in the Paris journal “L’Art et L’Idee.” By 1893 he had obviously hit his stride, and Le Bon Marché represents one of the great examples of woodblock printmaking. , 1893 Medium: woodcut Size: 20 x 25.6 cm. Vallotton made drypoints and etchings early in his career, and began making woodcuts in 1891. In very good condition, printed on a yellow/cream wove paper as specified for the lifetime impressions (there were also posthumous stamp-signed editions of 25 on white Japan and 15 on white wove), 7 7/8 x 10 1/4, the sheet 9 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches, archival matting.Ī fine strong impression from the lifetime edition.įounded in 1852, Le Bon Marché (which translates roughly to “good deal”) continues in operation today as a pre-eminent Paris department store. ![]() ![]() Felix Vallotton (1865-1925), Le Bon Marché Department Store, woodcut, 1893, signed in pencil lower right margin. ![]() ![]() Melody is jealous of her older sister, not because of her beauty, but because Jane’s glamours are elegant and entrancing….Melody is limited in her knowledge of glamour. Well accomplished in the art of glamour, Jane captures the imagination of all that she meets….wow people with her skills, but it is Melody the eligible bachelors are fixated on. While Melody is beautiful and charming, Jane is plain and lacks the feminine charms to secure a husband.Īlmost a confirmed spinster, Jane possesses other talents that might make her appealing to the right man….she is a glamourist. In the Regency era, Dorchester countryside, Jane and Melody Ellsworth are as opposite as any two sisters can be. ![]() Woven intricately out of the ether, Mary Robinette Kowal creates and exhilarating new world of enchantment that will please Jane Austen fans and illusionist fiction fans alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel’s protagonist is Paul Kemp, a freelancing journalist from New York who travels to Puerto Rico to work on The Daily News, a newspaper hemorrhaging money. ![]() I’ve always enjoyed his cutting language and stories that hover somewhere between an American Dream quest and an Altamont-style erosion of the hippie ideal, writing that exposes the grit below the surface sheen. The story was also adapted for a movie starring Johnny Depp, released in 2011.Īs something by way of disclosure, Thompson was a major influence on my writing and so there might be a little natural bias towards his work. Thompson had archived the manuscript after seven rejections from publishers and then became too swept up in the politics of the ‘60s to further pursue its publication. This novel has the shadow of legend behind it in that it’s something of a “lost novel,” having been written while Thompson was a 22-year-old writer in early 1960s Puerto Rico but not published until 1998, after actor Johnny Depp discovered it among Thompson’s papers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Constant Gardener is fiction, but the incidents it portrays are based on real-world events from Africa and Asia. ![]() There's no mistaking The Constant Gardener for anything other than a "message movie." Yes, there's also a love story here, but the most powerful aspect of the movie is what it has to say about the way medicines are tested in third world nations without the consideration of negative side effects, and how bad things that happen during these trials are covered up. It's also something of a downer, both it terms of how the main characters are handled and in its cynical attitude toward the pharmaceutical industry. The Constant Gardener is talky and intelligent, and never takes the cheap way out. This is not a thriller designed for the crowd that prefers shoot-outs, chases, and other action-packed incidents. But Jeffrey Caine's screenplay does a solid job of distilling the essence of the novel into something manageable, and Meirelles' kinetic, in-your-face style lends energy and immediacy to the proceedings. A slow-burn thriller simmering with international intrigue, the book would at first seem too long and complex to be crammed into a two-hour motion picture. ![]() For his follow-up to City of God, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles has elected to adapt John Le Carré's The Constant Gardener into movie form. ![]() ![]() She’ll have help from friends new and old-a kind-hearted widow, a police inspector, and a man who has long loved her. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down… I hope it involves them being protective of each other, empowering, and smart. ![]() ![]() I’m so excited there will be more.Ĭarrie gave it B: I can’t WAIT to find out what Charlotte, Livia, and Mrs. ![]() My outbound text messages are mostly hollering, squeeing, and long strings of vowels about this book. ![]() Sarah gave it a B+: I haven’t shut up about this book since I finished it. RECOMMENDED: A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas is $2.99! Both Sarah and Carrie read this book and enjoyed it. ![]() ![]() liberal parents, in particular, should read it - Edward Luce * Financial Times *Īn important if disturbing book. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141986302 Number of pages: 352 Weight: 261 g Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 20 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĮxcellent. ![]() Looking at the consequences of paranoid parenting, the increase in anxiety and depression amongst students and the rise of new ideas about justice, Lukianoff and Haidt argue that well-intended but misguided attempts to protect young people are damaging their development and mental health, the functioning of educational systems and even democracy itself. In this book, free speech campaigner Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt investigate a new cultural phenomenon of "safetyism", beginning on American college campuses in 2014 and spreading throughout academic institutions in the English-speaking world. Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity? ![]() ![]() liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial Times Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year ![]() |