![]() But perhaps more relevant than the nihilistic undertones of the play are its references to existentialism. ![]() Estragon and Vladimir appear to be in some kind of post-apocalyptic setting, promoting us to make this connection. ![]() From the moment the play commences, we are dropped into a state of limbo Estragon is tries and fails twice to remove his boot, before declaring that there is “Nothing to be done.” Indeed, from this opening line onwards, nothing is done.īut what is Beckett aiming to convey with such a pessimistic portrayal of the world? We might first infer that Waiting for Godot is a reflection of the widespread nihilism that spread across the postmodern world after the Second World War, many lost faith in the fundamental human values of reason and meaning, having witnessed the atrocities of the Holocaust. Despair and failure are central themes in the play, with Estragon and Vladimir succumbing to bored insanity in the face of a seemingly futile, meaningless world. In Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s two protagonists appear to be abandoned beside a country road, awaiting the arrival of someone, or something, called Godot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Norton Publication Date Section New Hardcover - Nonfiction / European History Type New Format Hardcover ISBN 9781324002161 With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Perfumed and decorated with gold, fetishized or tortured, powerful even beyond death, these medieval bodies are not passive and buried away they can still teach us what it means to be human. Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell Details Author Jack Hartnell Publisher W. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, this book throws light on the medieval body from head to toe―revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time.īringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, Hartnell's work is an excellent guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. ![]() ![]() In this richly illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored, and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. ![]() ![]() During his unforgettable five-year run on the series, Johns would enrich the world of Keystone City and humanize both Wally West and his enemies like no one before. Nearly 20 years ago, writer Geoff Johns ( Batman: Earth One, Shazam) took over The Flash and redefined a comic book icon for a new generation. 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Three novellas have been published – The Hedge Knight (1998), The Sworn Sword (2003), and The Mystery Knight (2010) – and Martin has stated his intention to continue the series. ![]() They follow the adventures of "Dunk" (the future Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Ser Duncan the Tall) and "Egg" (the future king Aegon V Targaryen), some 90 years before the events of the novels. Martin, set in the world of his A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Tales of Dunk and Egg is a series of fantasy novellas by George R. ![]() The graphic novel adaptation of The Hedge Knight (Second edition) ![]() ![]() ![]() The story starts off with a bang, and because of that I had really high hopes for the novel. The story sounded like it would be a fun read, and the cover was super cute, so I couldn’t want to check it out. The synopsis for Guy in Real Life had me intrigued. A story of the roles weĪll play-at school, at home, with our friends, and without ourįriends-and the one person who might show us what lies underneath it We aren't in order to figure out who we are. ![]() A story of those moments when we act like people Is a story of two people who do not belong in each other's lives, whoįind each other at a time when they desperately need someone who doesn'tīelong in their lives. Their way, and never talk to each other again. They should pick themselves up, continue on Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, andĭungeon masters her own RPG. The morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs ![]() Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in Profoundly moving love story about two Minnesota teens whose livesīecome intertwined through school, role-playing games, and a chance Author of Brooklyn, Burning comes Guy in Real Life, an achingly real and ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time. What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution – a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones – caused a cultural explosion. ![]() In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows h ow four tools have enabled humans to control the destiny of our species. ![]() ![]() ![]() And that, at least, gave the story a personal urgency. But the fast-track Manhattan club scene he chronicled held a kind of lurid fascination, and he did manage to capture something of the desperation and frustrated ambition behind the drug and disco nightlife. As a stylist, McInerney isn't any great shakes, and his novel lacked the psychological dimension that might have made it something more than a snappy read. ![]() Because on one level the book is a kind of "Valley of the Dolls" for the culturally upscale, a sputtering, strolling bore is perhaps the last thing you might have expected the movie to be. The movie begins after Jamie's wife has unceremoniously dumped him, and he courts oblivion by plunging headlong into the extremes of decadent pleasure-taking. ![]() Instead, Amanda becomes the hot new face on the modeling circuit, and Jamie a researcher in the Department of Factual Verification at a Manhattan magazine that bears a close resemblance to The New Yorker. Fox), a young man with literary pretensions who has moved with Amanda (Phoebe Cates), his model-beautiful wife, from Kansas City to New York to become a writer. The film is the record of roughly a week in the life of Jamie Conway (Michael J. The movie is like a Porsche outfitted with a lawn mower engine there's not even enough juice to get the machine out of the driveway. "Bright Lights, Big City," the James Bridges movie of the Jay McInerney best seller, runs at such a low idle that you expect it to collapse in a heap right before your eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The third in the series, Lowcountry Boneyard, was a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Okra Pick, a Daphne du Maurier Award finalist, and short-listed for the Pat Conroy Beach Music Mystery Prize. Her debut novel, Lowcountry Boil, won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, and garnered several other award nominations, including the Macavity. ![]() Boyer is the author of the USA Today bestselling Liz Talbot mystery series. ![]() If you like one, you’ll probably like them all. Boyer’s latest Southern charmer, Lowcountry Boondoggle. Take a virtual vacation to Charleston in Susan M. But will the price of justice be more than Liz can bear? Though Liz’s long-dead best friend, Colleen, warns her the stakes are far higher than Liz imagines, she is hellbent on finding the no-good killer among the bevy of suspects. Was it one of his many girlfriends or a disgruntled student? Or perhaps Murray was killed because his failure to invest meant the hemp farm trio’s dreams were going up in smoke? When a beloved Charleston professor-and potential investor-is murdered, Liz and Nate discover Darius keeps the PIs on speed dial.Ī shocking number of people had reasons to want the genteel, bowtie wearing, tea-drinking professor dead. Private investigators Liz Talbot and Nate Andrews thought they’d put Darius Baker’s troubles to rest-then his recently discovered son ropes him into a hemp farm investment with his college buddies. ![]() ![]() Her school in Adelaide had an impressive library where all the children's books (mostly British) were uniformly leather bound. And the countryside: "I felt I could go a little further than Shepard, and show more of that whole world the characters inhabit."īorn in Sussex but brought up in Australia from the age of eight, Moore feels a powerful attachment to the English countryside. But above all, it was the very "Englishness" of it that appealed. She was intrigued by the idea of illustrating – and abridging – it, and making it accessible to a younger readership. She'd read the book first as a teenager in Australia, and loved it for its celebration of kindness and companionship. ![]() Shepard's are the definitive illustrations." I might have thought about it, but only as an impossible dream. ![]() ![]() "I'd been in the pub with an old boyfriend and he'd suggested it, quite out of the blue. Was it really a "long-harboured ambition", as it says on the dust jacket? "Not exactly," she says, almost guiltily. ![]() Inga Moore's glorious interpretation of Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece (with almost 100 illustrations) has now sold more than a million copies worldwide. ![]() ![]() Published on 19 December, the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve by the end of 1844 thirteen editions had been released. There is discussion among academics as to whether this was a fully secular story, or if it is a Christian allegory. The treatment of the poor and the ability of a self-interested man redeeming himself by transforming into a more sympathetic character are the key themes of the story. ![]() Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella, and was inspired to write the story following a visit to the Field Lane Ragged school, one of several establishments for London's half-starved, illiterate street children. He was influenced by experiences from his own past, and from the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past, such as carols, as well as new customs such as Christmas trees. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. ![]() A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. ![]() |