![]() ![]() Sometimes you just want a beautiful cover to admire as much as what is inside. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Penguin Drop Caps), by Jane Austen (2012) The new cover is also appealing to a modern reader. ![]() In addition to the full-unabridged text it includes an excellent introduction by Austen scholar Margaret Drabble, which is both accessible and enlightening, and an entertaining afterword by bestselling historical romance author Eloisa James. With so many choices, I recommend the Signet Classics edition for the first-time reader and the veteran. There are 1,000s of paperback editions of this classic in print. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Signet Classics), by Jane Austen (2008) Here is a list of my favorite editions currently in print for pleasure readers, students, collectors, and Austen fans. The popularity of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, 200 years after its publication, cannot be debated…however, which edition should you read, gift, or collect? Thus began one of the most beloved novels ever written. ![]() “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Jane Austen ![]()
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![]() ![]() Strickland is in keeping with some of Shannon’s other memorable villain roles - Prohibition agent Nelson Van Alden in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, legendary mob hitman Richard Kuklinski in 2013’s The Iceman, or Kryptonian antagonist General Zod in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. ![]() Shannon plays Strickland as a disintegrating man (literally, at points) who’s laser-focused on enforcing a white, suburban, two-kids-and-a-dog vision of America, and doesn’t understand why it isn’t making him happy. Strickland, a government agent working behind the scenes to counter Russian space supremacy in the 1950s, is vehemently opposed to the kinds of creature-feature freaks of nature that often become the stars of del Toro films like Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth. But Shannon is an intense, fervent actor, and that makes his villain roles in films like Guillermo del Toro’s new horror / romance / fantasy The Shape of Water standout. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the truth is, I’ve always wanted him. I’m no longer closeted or scared to live my truth. He’s as irresistibly snarky as he always was, only there’s a big difference this time. ![]() Mike Bravo saved my life, and they want me to join them, but there’s one small problem. I was raised to be a soldier.īut when a top-secret mission fails, I find myself suddenly discharged with nowhere to go. Military life is all I’ve known since I was born. ![]() I’m not called Iris “I require intense supervision” for nothing. Now my boss wants to recruit him, and I can’t wait to rub it in his face that he was rescued by me. Because one of those men happen to be the golden boy from my basic training days.īrock “Saint” Harlow was a walking Captain America in the flesh. And because I work for Mike Bravo, a private black-ops firm, it’s my job to go into dangerous situations.īut when we’re called in to extract a military team from a hostile situation, the thrill is so much better. ![]() ![]() As White Fang being the main character, he was an orphan cub who gets sold to one person to the other until he finds a person who will love him and becomes a very crucial character to White Fang. The story line of this story is about a part wolf part dog named White Fang who overcomes his weaknesses while trying to survive in the frozen frontier of the Yukon. He soon became loving again to his owner. White Fang became a mean dog after all the fighting. White Fang learned how to defend himself against predators. ![]() He was taught how to hunt and catch his own food. This book has a lot of plot twist, so I would recommend it to people who like change.Ĭharacterization: White Fang started out as a pup. People who have a strong interest in dogs would like this book. Recommendation: I would recommend this book to all age groups. The wolf was abused, and he was forced to dog fight. They were split up by an Indian tribe and never saw each other again. White Fang and his mother lived in the wild. Plot Summary: White Fang was a pup of a dog and wolf. The author did a great job of painting a good picture in my head. ![]() I think that makes the book interesting because it's different than what we are used to. ![]() The dog narrates the book with its thoughts. Personal Response: I think this book was very interesting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Amber's special abilities be enough to keep everyone safe?. Warring with emotions of going from lone wolf to the pack leader's mate, Amber must decide if she is willing to risk Blake's life to know true family and friendship despite the fact that the Council is hell bent on locating her and will stop at nothing until she is found. Love blossoms, but not without tribulations when Amber realizes she must help her new pack rescue a member who is being held hostage by a rival pack. Everything changes when Amber saves a werewolf from the mere brink of death, Blake, the only werewolf to ever protect her. On the run since childhood, the lone wolf avoids contact with other werewolves at all cost, continually moving, constantly looking over her shoulder and always alone. Adams Tale is just a teaser for No Remorse. Due to her unusual birth, Amber has abilities no other werewolf has ever possessed. 4/5: 4 Stars for Werewolf Bound By MaryLynn Bast Werewolf Bound is a short story prequel on Adams story on how his life was affect by being changed into a werewolf. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I do love the fact that Gabriel Oak was a shepherd, and not say, a pig farmer. I love sheep :) They are so cute! But sheep are actually not the reason why I love this book so much. "Sheep are such unfortunate animals! - there's always something happening to them! I never knew a flock pass a year without getting into some scrape or other." ![]() This became the archetypal - and literal - cliff-hanger of Victorian prose. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. ![]() The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain. Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. ![]() ![]() ![]() In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief.to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive. My publisher asked if I could think about a book-length adventure. ![]() Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.Īlongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. Former Parkite Pam Houston says her memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, which is this year’s One Book, One Community selection, wasn’t supposed to be about living on a 120-acre ranch in Colorado, her abusive childhood or her bad choices in men. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures.ĭrop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. ![]() "How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. ![]() ![]()
![]() Euripides introduced psychological realism into ancient Greek drama through characters like Medea, whose motives are confused, complex, and ultimately driven by passion. However, her need for revenge overpowers her love for her children, and she ruthlessly kills diem. A chorus of Corinuhian women sympathize with Medea but attempt to dissuade her from acting on her anger. In one of literature’s most intensely emotional scenes, Medea debates with herself whether to spare her children for her own love’s sake or to kill them in order to punish her husband completely. ![]() Euripides takes the myth into a new direction by having Medea purposely stab her children to death in order to deprive Jason of all he loved (as well as heirs that would carry on his name). One variation of the myth says that Medea then accidentally kills her two sons by Jason while trying to make them immortal. Medea takes revenge by killing the new bride and her father, the King of Corinth. ![]() There Jason falls in love with the local princess, whose status in the city will bring Jason financial security. In the myth, after retrieving the golden fleece Jason brings his foreign wife to settle in Corinth. ![]() ![]() Euripides’s Medea (431 B.C.) adds a note of horror to the myth of Jason and Medea. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To complicate the situation for Curry, he learns that he is also part of this ancient race. Curry also learns that Ike is actually part of a superhuman and immortal race known as the “Eternals” who have been placed on the Earth to protect its inhabitants. The story on this DVD revolves around catalyst Mark Curry, a scientist whose world is turned into turmoil when he meets the enigmatic Ike Harris. Romita Jr is also no stranger to the comic industry who is quite the spectacular artist and really adds to the atmosphere of this awesome tale. For those that don’t know Neil Gaiman, he is one of the world’s hottest comic book writers and the creator who helped launch the amazing Sandman series. Based on the comic by Neil Gaiman (writer) and John Romita Jr (artist), Marvel Knights The Eternals transforms this story into an action packed motion comic that is now available on DVD. ![]() |