The Austen Escape
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Falling into the past will change their futures forever.Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and...
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The Natural World: Portraits of Earth's Great Ecosystems
Jane Goodall and Thomas D. Mangelsen
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In The Natural World, celebrated nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen takes the reader on a...
Favourite Poems: Of the National Trust
Jane McMorland Hunter and Jane Robbins
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An anthology of classic poems that are perfect for bedside reading, accompanied by charming...
River Sing Me Home
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We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to...
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Deborah (162 KP) rated What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved in Books
Dec 21, 2018
For example, there is a chapter on the games played in the novels. No one (that I know!) plays at Speculation any more, but we can grasp both the fundamentals of the game ("I am never to see my cards and Mr Crawford does all the rest" as Lady Bertram puts it!) and read into it some further illumination of the participating characters. And of course understand why Sir Thomas thought that it might not amuse him to have wife wife as a partner in Whist!
There are sections on characters who have no reported speech (it had not occurred before that we never hear Captain Benwick speak, but it is quite true!), clears away the myth that there are no scenes where women are not present and wraps up with an important consideration of Jane Austen's place in the development of the novel. I think that as she is so very readable, and perhaps also because she is a woman writer, people in general are too apt to dismiss her importance, but her innovations in style are immeasurable. I don't think it is going too far to say that without Austen the novel would not have developed in the way it has. If you read Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and a long et cetera, you best give your thanks to Jane Austen!
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The Mirror & the Light
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“If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?” England, May 1536....
A Matter of Faith – Henry VIII: The Days of the Phoenix
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Finally free of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII, is now married to Anne Boleyn and eagerly awaiting...
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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Deep Blue Sea (1999) in Movies
Feb 20, 2020 (Updated Feb 20, 2020)
The Plot: On an island research facility, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) is harvesting the brain tissue of DNA-altered sharks as a possible cure for Alzheimer's disease. When the facility's backers send an executive (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate the experiments, a routine procedure goes awry and a shark starts attacking the researchers. Now, with sharks outnumbering their human captors, McAlester and her team must figure out a way to stop them from escaping to the ocean and breeding.
Dont forger the main theme song "Deepest Bluest" by LL Cool J and you got a film.
Cruel Intentions (1999)
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Sarah Michelle Gellar (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, TV's Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and...