Carthage
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A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief,...
Gerald of Wales: De Principis Instructione
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Gerald of Wales was an ecclesiastic, a servant and critic of the Angevin kings, and a prolific and...
Growing Older with Jane Austen
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That Jane Austen is enduringly popular with both a general readership and academics can admit of no...
Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality
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This volume showcases ten years of research on language, gender and sexuality informed by queer...
Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post
Jul 31, 2021
Robert Eggers recommended Nosferatu (Eine Symphonie Des Grauens) (1922) in Movies (curated)
David McK (3372 KP) rated Death to the French in Books
Jul 26, 2021
Hornblower, however, is not the only of his creations that has their adventures set during the Napoleonic Wars: Rifleman Dodd is another.
He's also one that I was totally unfamiliar with, or with the fact that this creation (and story) inspired Bernard Cornwell's still-ongoing 'Sharpe' series - it's very easy, reading this, to see the similarities between the two creations!
This is set in Spain, round about the times of the Lines of Torres Vedras (1810 or thereabouts, I think), with Rifleman Dodd cut off from his company during a retreat and forced to spend several months behind enemy (French) lines as he tries to make his was back to his own company, sometimes with the (dubious) aid of Spanish (or was it Portuguese? ) Guerilla's and other times entirely on his own.
This also doesn't shy away from the full horrors of the war, with several of the passages and chapters told from the French point of view.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Tales That Witness Madness (1973) in Movies
Oct 27, 2020
Not up to the standard of any of the Amicus portmanteaus, mainly because of a sub-par script - the twists to the various tales are either screamingly obvious, completely baffling or non-existent - but it's sort of campy fun anyway, with an interesting cast and reasonably good direction. Not remotely scary, though. The fact that much of it is totally ridiculous (the so-called Hawaiians look eastern European, and that's before we even get to the stuffed tiger or Michael Jayston going to bed wth a log) somehow doesn't detract from the entertainment value. Would have been nice to see more of Donald Pleasance, but you can't have everything.
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pas
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously...
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The Ready-Made Thief
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Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run. Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for...
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