5/21/2023 0 Comments Top 10 by Alan Moore![]() ![]() The young Moore tore through Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, HP Lovecraft and, especially, Mervyn Peake. So, although Moore avowedly dislikes nostalgia, short fiction is a sort of coming home – back to the library he joined at the age of five and, once he’d outgrown Enid Blyton and Just William, where he got his teeth into science fiction and fantasy. ![]() Yet he has always had literary roots: his best-known work, Watchmen, took its title from Juvenal, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was peopled by the canonical characters of 19th-century adventure stories. “But when I started my professional career, it tended to take a bit of a back seat because there were other things going on.” “Other things”, for those who don’t know Moore’s work, is his gracefully understated shorthand for a 40-year career in the funny papers that made him probably the most respected comics writer on the planet. He is speaking to me from his home in Northampton for the launch of Illuminations, a short story collection – and, at the age of 68, his first. ![]() I ’ve been enamoured of prose fiction for quite a long while,” says Alan Moore. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Princess diana of the amazons![]() But when she decides to take matters into her own hands, she encounters the unexpected!From New York Times bestselling authors Shannon Hale (Princess Academy) and Dean Hale and artist Victoria Ying comes a heartfelt story about making mistakes, learning the hard way, and growing up to become a hero. What Diana needs is a friend someone her own age whom she can talk to. ![]() Eleven-year-old Diana leads an idyllic life on the island of Themyscira. In her homeland, the island nation of Themyscira, her official title is Princess Diana of Themyscira. by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Victoria Ying. Every other person on the island is an adult proficient in their trade and mighty in body, while she is gangly, sometimes clumsy, and not particularly good at anything. Wonder Woman first appeared in All Star Comics 8 in 1941. For that reason, Diana: Princess of the Amazons takes certain liberties when it comes to the depiction of Themyscira and the home of the Amazons undergoes a major geographical change. She just can't seem to measure up no matter what she does. In fact, she's the only child on the entire island!After an escapade goes wrong, Diana gets in trouble for not living up to the Amazonian standard. Though she has a loving mother and many "aunties," she is an only child. ![]() Cut off from the rest of the world, she's beginning to feel a little alone. For that reason, Diana: Princess of the Amazons takes certain liberties when it comes to the depiction of Themyscira and the home of the Amazons undergoes a major geographical change. (W) Hale, Dean (A) Ying, Victoria (CA) Ying, VictoriaĮleven-year-old Diana leads an idyllic life on the island of Themyscira. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Hans christian andersen cinderella![]() ![]() Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805. His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. His most famous fairy tales include " The Emperor's New Clothes", " The Little Mermaid", " The Nightingale", " The Steadfast Tin Soldier", " The Red Shoes", " The Princess and the Pea", " The Snow Queen", " The Ugly Duckling", " The Little Match Girl", and " Thumbelina". They have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.Īndersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. ![]() Hans Christian Andersen ( / ˈ æ n d ər s ən/ AN-dər-sən, Danish: ( listen) 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen (København) ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Charles causley poems list![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lee) Pergamon PoTimothy Winters, 1970 The Tail of the Trinosaur (in verse for children), 1973 Collected Poems, 1951-1975, 1975 When Dad Felt Bad, 1975 Dick Whittington (children's story) 1976 Here We Go Round The Round House (verse), 1976 The Hill of the Fairy Calf (verse), 1976 Three Heads Made of Gold (children's story), 1978 The Gift of a Lamb (verse-play), 1978 The Animals' Carol (verse), 1978 The Last King of Cornwall (children's story), 1978 (music by Tate) St. Bell) Penguin Modern PoBallad of the Bread Man, 1968 Underneath the Water: Poems, 1968 Figure of 8: Narrative Poems, 1969 Figgie Hobbin: Poems for Children, 1971 (with L. Publications: Runaway (play), 1936 The Conquering Hero (play), 1937 Benedict (play), 1938 Hands to Dance and Skylark (adult short stories), 1951, 1979 Farewell, Aggie Weston, 1951 Survivor's Leave, 1953 Union Street: Poems, 1957 The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond, 1958 Johnny Alleluia: Poems, 1961 (with G. open U., 1982 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1967 Cholmondeley Award, 1971 Kurt Maschler Award, 1987 Ingersoll Prize, 1990 CBE, 1986. Career: Literary Ed., Apollo in the West, and Signature, BBC mags., 1953-56 Honorary Visiting Fellow in Poetry, University of Exeter, 1973-74 Teacher in Cornwall, 1947-76 FRSL 1958 Hon. ![]() Genres: Novels, Children's fiction, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Translations, Novellas/Short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, I tried to imagine what happened next: how that might have shaped their religion and politics. For example, we have a few mentions of the Prophet Suleiman punishing djinn but not much beyond that. It became a game with history and folklore providing the rules: I had to abide by what existed, but could imagine beyond that. the world that became The City of Brass–one I imagined djinn might have created by combining their nature and the influences of the particular human societies they lived amongst. ![]() The press release describes the story as "an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts." When asked about writing the novel in an interview for The Huffington Post, Chakraborty explains that it "began as a world-building experiment. It is five-hundred and thirty-two pages long, features illustrations and maps, and is printed in hardcover and paperback, and available in digital download. The City of Brass was published by HarperCollins subsidiary HarperVoyager, on November 14, 2017. It is the first of The Daevabad Trilogy, followed by The Kingdom of Copper in 2019 and The Empire of Gold in 2020. The City of Brass is an American science fiction and fantasy novel written by S. ![]() ![]() ![]() "father" bequeathing them to "Christopher," who then marries ![]() "Lambert" children whom "Christopher" loves, and of their dying The account of the beautiful and neglected Linton (theįrederick Dennis of Hale White's Clara Hopgood) with his sex changed to female, as Christopher Kirkland is Eliza Lynn herself with her sex changed to male. Dalrymple, the mystical inspiration of Kirkland's late adolescence, or Althea Cartwright, the heartless vamp of his youth, or even Cordelia Gilchrist, the woman whom he cannot marry despite their love because she is a Catholic, may perhaps in real life have beenĮither women or men, although one is inclined to think that theyīut "Esther Lambert," the woman Christopher marries, is justĪs surely a portrait of Eliza Lynn's husband, W. ![]() To have them loved by a man? It is not always possible to answer,Īnd in some instances it may not be very important: Mrs. Original sex could be preserved in the novel since it was appropriate ![]() Lesbian tendencies-were they really women all along, whose Were the various women, for example, whomĬhristopher Kirkland is represented as loving, actually men whomĮliza Lynn had loved? Or-since she had a masculine character and Obert Lee Wolff, who sees many thematic parallels between Linton's The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885) and William hale White's Clara Hopgood (1896), explains that her novel is actually an autobiography in which “she switched the sex of the protagonist” (378), which can confuse readers, who wonder ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Vivian maier photography![]() ![]() As for the video, well, sadly, it's not as impressive, at least in terms of advancements in image quality, and while it can do 8-bit 4K at 30 frames per second, it's no longer ahead of the pack in that regard, like the Panasonic Lumix GH5 is with its 400Mbps 10-bit codec and 60-fps 4K. Vivian Maier fue una fotógrafa estadounidense. ![]() Interestingly, the a7 III manages to do an excellent job at both low and high ISOs, the latter of which can go as high as 51,200 non-boosted, which, granted, adds a lot of noise, but noise reduction helps with that. ![]() It has excellent dynamic range, low-light performance, and high-speed performance, and the full-frame sensors make the images look absolutely stunning. Vivian Maier (1926 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in. ![]() The Sony Alpha a7 III is a camera with so much tech that it might as well be three different cameras. After years of outreach, her work is finally being. While it usually goes for a whopping $2,200, Best Buy had brought it down to $1,900, and while that relatively doesn't seem like much, you could always spend the $300 savings on a new lens. Vivian Maiers photography is a moving and raw depiction of post-war Chicago and lonely travels overseas. Of course, many folks may not realize that Best Buy has some fantastic deals on high-end photography gear, such as this Sony Alpha a7 III mirrorless camera. There are a lot of great Best Buy Black Friday deals going on right now, and whether you're looking for TVs, laptops, or even headphones, there's a little something for everybody. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Co aytch![]() ![]() Aytch have appeared, though Philip Leigh’s latest edition from Westholme Publishing is the first that is both illustrated and fully annotated. Aytch remained relatively unknown outside of specialist circles until 1990, when Ken Burns’ documentary The Civil War highlighted Watkins’ wartime experiences and quoted from his memoir. Though it was subsequently published in several book-length editions, Co. Aytch.” Fifteen years later he penned his war memoir, which was first serialized in his hometown Columbia Herald in the early 1880s. When the Army of Tennessee surrendered in the spring of 1865, Watkins was one of only seven men to survive service in “Co. ![]() Over the next four years, he participated in a number of major military engagements, including those at Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville. Watkins, who was born near Columbia, Tennessee, in 1839, enlisted in Company H of the First Tennessee Infantry (Confederate) in the spring of 1861. Aytch has long been regarded as one of the finest memoirs written by a common soldier of the American Civil War. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show by Sam Watkins and edited by Philip Leigh. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Fear of flying erica![]() ![]() That conduct amounts to sexual harassment under federal and Florida fair housing laws. ![]() “In other words, the landlord made the availability of her housing conditional on her having sexual relationship with a co-tenant. Woods and his agents have taken the position that this happened because of the end of the sexual relationship between Ms. Sign up for Us Weekly's free, daily newsletter and never miss breaking news or exclusive stories about your favorite celebrities, TV shows and more! The lawyers pointed out that since the former restaurant worker had a “tenancy agreement with the trust” that owns the home, she should have been allowed to stay there despite the pair’s split. Herman then claimed that her 2022 “ejection from her home also shows this dispute relates to sexual harassment.” According to her legal team, “When the sexual relationship ended, she was kicked out of her home.” The man is not taking and the woman is not giving. In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (20 million in print around the world in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels-How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. ![]() Her attorneys claimed that she was “forced” to sign an NDA in 2017 out of fear that she would “be fired from her job” ahead of the pair’s romantic relationship. Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Fear of Flying is the zipless fuck: The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. However, in Herman’s filing from this month, she further alleged that Woods sexually harassed her shortly after she began working at his restaurant in 2014. ![]() Tiger Woods’ Ups and Downs Through the Years Read article ![]() ![]() His Interesting Narrative served as the foremost abolitionist writing of the day because he was an African voice that described the violence and degradation of the slave trade and of slavery itself. His work was published under his birth name: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.Ī resident of London during the 1780s, Equiano became involved in British abolitionism and was a vocal opponent of the slave trade and slavery until his death in 1797. ![]() This Christian was a previously enslaved man known as Gustavus Vassa, who, through writing his own life story, became the founder of a literary movement known as slave narratives. Christ was revealed to my soul as the chiefest among ten thousand,” wrote an 18th-century British seaman in 1789 as he reflected on his conversion that occurred five years previously. ![]() The word of God was sweet to my taste, yea sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. ![]() |