So he made me a proposition I hadn’t anticipated. We had fared 17,000 leagues, and as Ned Land put it, there was no end in sight. For six months we had been prisoners aboard the Nautilus. The Canadian, Conseil, and I had a pretty long conversation on this subject. An escape attempt would have been quite feasible, assuming Ned Land managed to seize the skiff without the captain’s knowledge. The Canadian was quite disheartened, having counted on putting his plans into execution in the gulf, either by reaching shore or by pulling alongside one of the many boats plying a coastal trade from one island to another. For one instant I could see their lofty peaks. On April 16 we raised Martinique and Guadalupe from a distance of about thirty miles. Yet there was no shortage of water under its keel, since the average depth of these seas is 1,800 meters but these waterways, strewn with islands and plowed by steamers, probably didn’t agree with Captain Nemo. It obviously didn’t want to frequent the waves of the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean Sea. , via Wikimedia CommonsįOR SOME DAYS the Nautilus kept veering away from the American coast. Chapter 18 The Devilfish Title page of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.
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It is in no way visually apparent that Beecroft is one of the most popular and beloved authors in the rapidly expanding male/male romance genre, a defining feature of which is explicit gay male sex. Her home reflects a daily bustle of family activity: framed pictures of adorable blonde children, various craft supplies crowded on tables, stacks of handmade wicker baskets, rosebushes thriving in the backyard. Īlex Beecroft, the writer of this raunchy encounter and a happily married mother of two with short red hair, picks me up in an old Volvo wagon at the train station in her tiny, green Cambridgeshire town. Gathered up in both arms, his head back, astonished and all the more aroused by his own deep surrender, he felt Alfies knuckles dig hard into his back as the man snapped the tapes at the back of his waistband and shoved the suddenly loosened breeches down to his knees. Alfies mouth was on his and sweet fire pulsed down his backbone as he opened to Alfies questing tongue. His trapped cock hurt, bent and straining against the heavy, harsh fabric of his breeches. Alfie raked fingernails gently across one of his nipples, his other hand pushing aside Johns neckcloth so that he could pepper Johns throat with little bites. Not seeing them all through the centrifuge of Bloomsbury is a relief. Yeats, Henry Green, Elizabeth Longford and Edith Sitwell. Moreover, the extended cast includes some of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: John Betjeman, Vera Brittain, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolf, Cecil Day Lewis, Kenneth Clark, W. You certainly don’t need to be a classicist to enjoy this book. Daisy is able to unpack that through her own extensive knowledge, a valuable bridge to the past but also a translator for those of us who don’t have Greek and Latin. Dodds (Univ, 1912) Maurice Bowra (New College, 1919) and overarching both like a great Victorian buttress, their mentor the Regius Professor of Greek from 1908, Gilbert Murray (St John’s, 1884).Ĭlassics, or Greats as it is also known, was the queen subject at Oxford and commanded huge academic weight spilling over into public discourse. The author of this highly original, poignant account of Oxford between the two World Wars, Daisy Dunn (St Hilda’s, 2005 - pictured above) is an accomplished classicist and historian, her last book In Shadow of Vesuvius, a Life of Pliny (2019).ĭaisy’s training is of great significance because Not Far From Brideshead is centrally about classicists and three in particular – E.R. Not far from Brideshead, Oxford Between the Wars by Daisy Dunn (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2022). As Lia, along with her friends Adam and Katie, works to identify members of the Swarm to help stop the Death Mobs, Ryan stays in the shadows, trying to protect Lia. Her rescuer, Ryan, later introduces himself as a Swarm member who also worked with her father. While there, she’s saved from the violence by a gray-eyed teen, who tosses her into Lake Michigan. After deciphering a tweet indicating that a new attack will take place, Lia goes to the waterfront site alone to try to document the mob’s activities. Lia’s father, a prosecuting attorney who was investigating the Swarm, became one of their victims. In Chicago, dozens of disguised teens have beaten and kicked their victims to death. Lia Finch, 16, has evidence that the Death Mob’s Swarm will strike again after a two-year absence. She has suffered extreme blunt force trauma to the head, but no weapon is found at the scene of the crime. It is at first assumed that her death was the result of an S&M scenario that accidentally went too far. She is found dead in her apartment, after having apparently been raped. The novel opens with the discovery of Carolyn Polhemus' dead body. A film adaptation of the novel starring Harrison Ford was released in 1990. His investigation of her death, and later, indictment for it, provide the impetus for the plot. Rusty Sabich is the deputy prosecuting attorney of (the fictional) Kindle County, who comes to be accused of murdering his former colleague, Carolyn Polhemus. Presumed Innocent centers on, and is told from the point of view of, prosecutor Rožat "Rusty" Sabich. Turow has received wide acclaim for the accuracy and realism of his depiction of the inner workings of the legal system a verisimilitude that derives from his own background as a prosecutor for the US Attorney's Chicago office. Presumed Innocent is a 1987 crime novel by Scott Turow it was his first novel. Likable main characters, lively dialogue and a timely topic of returning soldiers fill out this low-key romance Unable to do more.” The romance is sweet and believable, but the only real momentum driving the plot is readers’ knowledge that Kate’s disability is an invisible one that she hasn’t yet revealed to Aidan, which may not be enough for many. The novel’s thoroughly chick-lit cover (complete with a heart of flowers) will prevent most guys from picking it up, and that’s a shame, as Perry conveys Aidan’s physical and emotional journey evocatively and with authenticity: “A lump stretches at my throat, and I nod. Kate’s startling honesty (“How do you open jars?”) is refreshing to Aidan, who tells her, “It’s like they all try to pretend my arm’s still there and it isn’t.” Chapters alternate between Kate’s and Aidan’s first-person narrations, and each perspective rings true as their romance progresses from awkward-but-direct conversations to kissing and eventually sleeping together. Soon after, she meets Aidan, who has his own struggles, having recently returned from Afghanistan, where his arm was blown off. Aidan and Kate meet soon after each has experienced a devastating change in health and are surprised to fall in love.Īs if it wasn’t bad enough that high school senior Kate must deal with diabetes and its attendant shots, carb-counting and parental worrying, her boyfriend has just dumped her. The contact for consent withdrawal and subscription cancellation is the following: or you can visit us at University & Antiquarian Bookshop Dominović, Hrvatske bratske zajednice 4 (National & University Library building), 10001 Zagreb, P.P.555. After you withdraw your consent, you will no longer receive our newsletter, but you will still be able to use our website and other services. You can also unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” button that you will be able to find in every newsletter. 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I consent to give University & Antiquarian Bookshop Dominović permission to store my e-mail address for the purpose of sending newsletter with promotional and educational content. Warcross is also being adapted into a television series. It didn’t take nearly as long for Warcross to get picked up for adaptation. Since the project just got picked up, it could be a while before we know any casting news. I can’t wait to show everyone what we’re making.” “I’m deeply honored to be working with a team that not only understands the core of the Legend world but have brought me into the process of its adaptation. “From the moment I first spoke to Lindsay and to Samuel and Jamie at Bound Entertainment, I knew Legend was going to be in good hands,” Lu said. The two teenagers cross paths when June’s brother is murdered. Day, 18, lives on the streets as the country’s most wanted celebrity June 18, is the Republic’s prodigy within the highest military rankings. The series is set in a futuristic world where the western United States is now the Republic, at war with its neighbors. Alternatively, readers won’t fail to note that this small book, illustrated with gentle soy-ink drawings and featuring an adult-child bear duo engaged in various sedentary and lively pursuits, could just as easily be about human parent- (or grandparent-) child pairs: some of the softly colored illustrations depict scenarios that are more likely to occur within a home and/or other family-oriented setting. However, the voice could equally be that of an adult, because who can’t look back upon teachers or other early mentors who gave of themselves and offered their pupils so much? Indeed, some of the self-aware, self-assured expressions herein seem perhaps more realistic as uttered from one who’s already grown. This gentle ode to a teacher’s skill at inspiring, encouraging, and being a role model is spoken, presumably, from a child’s viewpoint. A paean to teachers and their surrogates everywhere. Heyerdahl would later prove it not only possible, but likely. At the time, this theory was considered outrageous. Ancient stone figures, the presence of such flora as the pineapple & local legends all pointed to an early migration from South America. It was there that he began to pick up a trail that would lead to the Kon-Tiki expedition. Fatu-Hiva was a turning point in Heyerdahl's life. They lived to tell of hazardous inter-island voyages, their idyllic month-long stay with the last surviving Polynesian cannibal, their mixed relations with the islanders, their failures & successes in an entirely natural world. They built a bamboo cabin & lived off the land, struggling against myriad diseases. Without medical supplies, they came within inches of losing their lives, but they also found the serenity they were seeking. They wanted to escape civilization & live strictly according to nature. A young Heyerdahl spent 1936 with his bride, Liv, on Fatu-Hiva in the Marquesas Islands. |