5/30/2023 0 Comments Mark twain and joan of arc![]() ![]() ![]() It was, in his words, âthe best of all my books,â and became his last finished novel. When he finally decided to write a book about her, he researched it for a dozen years and spent two more years writing it. Twain first became fascinated with Joan as a teenager. After an ill-advised and short-lived truce, Joan is captured by the Burgundiansâ≏rench nobility who have aligned themselves with the Englishâand they try her for heresy and burn her at the stake. That army promptly lifts the siege of Orléans, throws the English out of the Loire valley, hands them another significant defeat at Patay, and marches all the way to Reims, where the dauphin is crowned King Charles VII. ![]() She manages to take her message to the dauphin, who after some persuasion places her at the head of his army. A young teenage girl hears voices that tell her she will deliver France from Englandâs oppression during the Hundred Years War. The essential facts regarding Joan of Arc are well known. ![]() Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Mark Twainġ51,994 words (9 hours 13 minutes) with a reading ease of 75.44 (fairly easy) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Spell It Out by David Crystal![]() ![]() By learning the history and the principles, Crystal shows how the spellings that break all the rules become easier to get right. ![]() Read more these peculiarities entered the mainstream, in an epic journey taking in sixth century monks, French and Latin upstarts, the Industrial Revolution and the internet. He unearths the stories behind the rogue words that confound us, and explains why. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five per cent is complicated, and in Spell It Out our foremost linguistics expert David Crystal extends a helping hand to the confused and curious alike. Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. This book takes you on a journey through English spelling. Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign cars, and it stuck. ![]() ![]() Description for Spell it Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling Paperback. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones![]() To Jones, her body is normal because it is all she has ever known. ![]() It is an infinity mirror, reflecting and distorting the view of who she is as a person. This, in turn, affects how they treat her, which affects the way she sees herself, which affects how she acts, which affects how the world reacts to her. Jones is “born a ball of twisted muscle and tucked bone” with a rare condition called sacral agenesis-the bottom part of her spine is incomplete-causing consistent pain, stunting her height, and decreasing her mobility, all of which affects the way people see her. “That will be their first and only thought about you…They will not attempt a second thought.” ![]() “Some people are going to look at your body and see that something’s wrong,” her mom tells her. Peers debate the value of her life, strangers stop and stare, and doctors announced that she will never have a normal life. ![]() For Chloé Cooper Jones, author of the memoir Easy Beauty, life is an endless experience of being studied by others. In many ways, we are all defined by the people around us. I am more than labels can contain, but I am labeled. I am a checkmark on a census report, a goal on a diversity dashboard, and a notch on a bedpost. I am a woman, Asian, with average height, and average weight, with symmetrical features. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was fully prepared for anti-heroes, but you do still expect your leading characters to be at least.tolerable, right? Or well-developed characters whose actions make sense in context? Just from the first chapter, it is apparent that this is not the case here. Suffice to say, there was much more wrong than there was right. If I could enumerate the things wrong with this book, I would, but I think it would devolve into a line-by-line breakdown of "why this?" and "really?", and that's just too much time to devote to such a thing. I suspect this is because the only people who bothered to review it are the ones who liked it, and the ones who hated it as instantly as I did didn't even bother. I feel a little iffy writing a review for a book that I rage-DNF'd at about the 12% mark, but this book has like a 4.3 overall rating rn, and that is incredibly misleading. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Evertrue brodi ashton![]() ![]() Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton. As Nikki s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole s queen. And he ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen. ![]() Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. Inspired by the Persephone myth, this stunning conclusion to the Everneath trilogy, whose captivating first book earned a VOYA Perfect Ten of 2011 and a Whitney award, explores the resiliency of the human spirit and the indomitable power of true love. But there s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Get FREE shipping on Evertrue by Brodi Ashton, from. Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance and the one person she loves more than anything. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good byes she can t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. Now she’s returned to her old life, her family, her boyfriend before she s banished back to the underworld… ![]() Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Wolverine by Chris Claremont![]() ![]() He in turn suggested the codename to Len Wein, but for another character: "How about a Canadian mutant called Wolverine?" Cockrum then quit working on his version of Wolverine, figuring there was no point to make a duplicate character. One of their members was going to be "a vulpine type: animalistic, bestial, feral, whom I called Wolverine." He proposed the character concept to Roy Thomas. ![]() This team would have a rival team called the "Devastators" or the "Strangers". He was working on a team concept called Outsiders, that he never managed to sell. Dave Cockrum came up with the codename Wolverine before the character was created.Some of these were carried over into alternate reality versions. He was originally intended to be, on separate occasions, bisexual, a teenager, an actual wolverine who'd mutated into a human, an expatriated Australian, or Sabretooth's son.As quite possibly the most iconic Canadian character in the history of comic books, Wolverine has a rather complex history. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Le carre the russia house![]() ![]() If you enjoyed The Russia House, you might like le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. John le Carrés first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them Barley. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries. ![]() ![]() A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. John le Carré's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command themīarley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the trouble,” Connie Sachs, British intelligence’s resident alcoholic expert on Soviet spies, tells spy catcher George Smiley in the 1979 novel “Smiley’s People”. “It’s not a shooting war anymore, George. ![]() Unlike the glamour of Ian Fleming’s unquestioning James Bond, le Carre’s heroes were trapped in the wilderness of mirrors inside British intelligence which was reeling from the betrayal of Kim Philby, who fled to Moscow in 1963. “A giant of literature who left his mark on MI6 through his evocative and brilliant novels.”īy exploring treachery at the heart of British intelligence in spy novels, le Carre challenged Western assumptions about the Cold War by defining for millions the moral ambiguities of the battle between the Soviet Union and the West. ![]() “Very sad to hear the news about John le Carre,” said Richard Moore, the chief of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence agency. The family said in a brief statement he died of pneumonia. He is survived by his wife, Jane, and four sons. David Cornwell, known to the world as John le Carre, died after a short illness in Cornwall, southwestern England, on Saturday evening. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Gehrings investigative quest twenty-five years later to reclaim a piece of her childhood and to answer the questions, why, how, she recalls what were once innocent memories and odd circumstances that be less puzzling in hindsight. ![]() In fact, he was much more-Ted eluded the FBI for seventeen years while mailing explosives to strangers, earning the infamous title of Unabomber. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was just the odd hermit. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts. About the Book A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber Book Synopsis A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am going to make my own television commercial, where i put those poor sarah mclachlan shelter and circus-animals in clothing and play some manipulative tune over it, and then you will all see! ![]() it is not as good as:īut it is what i am putting out there.just say no. Initially, it goes into the ways that animals in clothing is impractical because of the nature of animals' bodies and the limitations of human clothing to stay on or enhance those animals, but then it ends with the most convincing point: animals in clothing is just plain embarrassing! to them and to us.poor animals, why do people try to steal your dignity by putting you in clothing that is unnecessary? why would a dog need little booties? this is the equivalent of taking your average child and slapping it in a bubble - it is just going to weaken and soften your child like counter butter, and all the other kids/dogs are going to make fun of them. Greg brought this up to me last week, and i don't know how i have missed it all these years!! this book has a message i can stand behind. ![]() |
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