![]() ![]() Possibly because most of the contributors are better known as novelists, the bulk of the stories read more like comic outtakes from larger works than independently plotted stories. Banks's amusing "Spellbound," descendants of the Hatfields and McCoys wage a slapstick war of spell and counterspell, while Charlaine Harris's "Tacky" projects the mishaps that might follow a mixed marriage between a werewolf and vampire. Jim Butcher, the sole male contributor, serves up the book's best romp, "Something Borrowed," in which wizard detective Harry Dresden prompts a bridezilla rampage from a malevolent fairy when he tries to break up her wedding with the werewolf whose intended she is impersonating. ![]() Nine top fantasists imagine just how amusingly amok a wedding might run in this diverting compilation of original stories on the theme of nuptials among the fey folk. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Wilson went to New College, Oxford, graduating in 1972. "Reporters arrived at the school gates, wanting to interview me, but my housemaster, wisely, would not let me talk to them," Wilson told Hunter Davies in 1993. The national press became interested in the story, with the Daily Express headlining its account "Red rebel in Tom Brown's school". While at Rugby, he wrote an article for the school magazine arguing that public schools should be abolished. ![]() He was first educated at St Dominic's Priory School in Stone before moving to Hillstone School (subsequently incorporated into Malvern College) in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, and then at Rugby School from the age of 13, where he read Mao and Marx in his spare time. Wilson was born in Stone in Staffordshire to a father who became the managing director of Wedgwood, the pottery company. He has been an occasional contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and a former columnist for the London Evening Standard. ![]() Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950) is an English writer and newspaper columnist known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s the first volume in what will be an expanding glossary of publishing terminology. If you found this helpful, consider buying me a virtual coffee to keep me writing. ![]() ![]() that’s it! have fun and drop into my ask box if you invent cool words!.and finally here’s a guardian article on making up words.here’re two huffopost lists of words invented by milton and dahl.ya know my boy shakespeare invented some (okay many) words? here’s how he did.read the jabberwocky for inspiration every word in it sounds just right.keep it meaningful but you could also take a leaf out of roald dahl’s book and make it funny.try random stuff like using obscure place names as verbs or colours as adverbs.follow a few linguists’ blogs and learn about phenomena like verbing and contrastive reduplication. ![]()
![]() His multi-award-winning 300 series from Dark Horse, a telling of history's most glorious and underreported battle, was brought to full-blooded life in 1998. Readers responded enthusiastically to Miller's tough-as-leather noir drama, creating an instant sales success. It was on Daredevil that Miller gained notoriety, honed his storytelling abilities, and took his first steps toward becoming a giant in the comics medium.Īfter Daredevil came Ronin, a science-fiction samurai drama that seamlessly melded Japanese and French comics traditions into the American mainstream and after that, the groundbreaking and acclaimed Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One, both of which not only redefined the classic character, but also revitalized the industry itself.įinally able to fulfill his dream of doing an all-out, straight-ahead crime series, Miller introduced Sin City in 1991. ![]() ![]() ![]() Frank Miller began his career in comics in the late 1970s, first drawing then writing Daredevil for Marvel Comics, creating what was essentially a crime comic disguised as a superhero book. ![]() ![]() One shall leave the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club a champion before the world. There’s a reason that Kipling’s verse greets the competitors at Wimbledon before they step out onto the centre court.Īfter the tournament one player will face triumph and the other disaster. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,Īnd-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son! If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too If you can keep your head when all about you ![]() The final thing that the competitors see before they battle for the most prestigious tennis trophy of all.Īs an example of Victorian-era Stoicism, Kipling goes on to say that: These same words appear above the doors to Wimbledon’s Centre Court. If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same. ![]() In 1895, the Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling composed the poem “If-,” which later went on to become one of the most popular poems in Great Britain. ![]() ![]() Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon Dr Lydgate, whose pioneering medical methods, combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond, threaten to undermine his career and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. Middlemarch by George Eliot: 9780451531964 : Books One of the best-loved works of the nineteenth century, Middlemarch explores the complex social relationships in a town that moves and breathes with a. George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. 'One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia Woolf ![]() One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables' upstate farm, where non-human inhabitants are preaching revolution.and threatening the carefully nutured secrecy of Fabletown. 'Originally published in single magazine form in Fables 1-41, Fables: The Last Castle, A Wolf in the Fold, and Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall.' Book Synopsis. Disguised among the normal citizens of a modern New York, these magical characters created their own peaceful and secret society, which they called Fabletown.īut when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff - the reformed Big Bad Wolf, Bigby - to find the killer. When a savage creature, known only as the Adversary, conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, the famous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. ![]() Get lost in the fantastic world of Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series Fables, now collected in a beautiful and story-packed compendium! This compendium captures all the branching fables that intersect our heroes’ stories from Jack of Fables and The Literals, to the classic short story Werewolves of the Heartland. ![]() ![]() Dream analysis, meditation, Jungian “active imagination” and ritual processes are among the tools set forth in a clear, concise map to territories of masculine selfhood. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette is the study. To help males become more nurturing and mature, Moore and Gillette identify four archetypes of masculine energies from myth and literature: the Lover, brimming with vitality and sensitivity the Magician, guider of the processes of inner and outer transformation the selfless and wise King identified with Adam or primordial man and the Warrior, whose energies often go awry in destructive activity. ![]() Writing within a Jungian framework, they perceive symptoms of “Boycaps per book psychology” all around us–in men’s abusive behaviors, passivity and inability to act creatively. ![]() The corporate “yes man,” the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally distant father are all boys pretending to be men, observe the authors of this liberating guide to self-transformation. ![]() King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine. Moore, Douglas Gillette Avon Books, 1992 - Archetype (Psychology) - 336 pages 0 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She grew up in the tiny village of Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire after her father was given the living there as rector of Bluntisham- cum- Earith. When Sayers was six, her father started teaching her Latin. Her father, originally from Littlehampton, West Sussex, was a chaplain of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral School. Her mother was a daughter of Frederick Leigh, a solicitor whose family roots were in the landed gentry in the Isle of Wight, and had been born at "The Chestnuts", Millbrook, Hampshire. She was the daughter of Helen Mary Leigh and her husband, the Rev. Sayers, an only child, was born on 13 June 1893 at the Headmaster's House on Brewer Street in Oxford. Somerville College, Oxford, where Sayers studied and gained the inspiration for her novel Gaudy Night ![]() ![]() He traveled widely through Europe and the Middle East with his family during the late 1860s and early 1870s, once living with a host family in Germany for five months. As a young boy, Roosevelt was tutored at home by private teachers. Thereafter, Roosevelt became a lifelong advocate of exercise and the "strenuous life." He always found time for physical exertions including hiking, riding horses, and swimming. As a teenager, he decided that he would "make his body," and he undertook a program of gymnastics and weight-lifting, which helped him develop a rugged physique. But he was always a sickly child afflicted with asthma. "Teedie" grew up surrounded by the love of his parents and siblings. His mother, Martha "Mittie" Roosevelt, was a Southerner, raised on a plantation in Georgia. His father, Theodore, Sr., was a well-to-do businessman and philanthropist. ![]() Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, and grew up in New York City, the second of four children. ![]() |