![]() ![]() Carol, a film adaptation released in 2015, was nominated for six Academy Awards and nine British Academy Film Awards. Ī British radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast in 2014. ![]() It is also notable for being the only one of her novels with "a conventional 'happy ending '" and characters who had "more explicit sexual existences". The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan." Highsmith-known as a suspense writer based on her psychological thriller Strangers on a Train-used an alias as she did not want to be tagged as "a lesbian-book writer", and she also used her own life references for characters and occurrences in the story.Īlthough Highsmith wrote over 22 novels and numerous short stories and had many sexual and romantic relationships with women, The Price of Salt is her only novel about an unequivocal lesbian relationship, and its relatively happy ending was unprecedented in lesbian literature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When we do not have them, we sometimes indulge in responsible speculation that can serve the useful function of framing possibilities. And even among our international team – journalists who have covered Russia and the nefarious methods of warfare worldwide for decades – there was no agreement.Except on one thing: “We absolutely don’t know, and we probably never will know,” says Peter Ford, the head of our international department.That, of course, doesn’t sit very well today, when everything can be seemingly known with the flick of a thumb. Nonsense, Ukrainians and Americans respond.So, what really happened?Was it the Ukrainians, worried that their spring counteroffensive might falter, or simply eager to take out the leader laying siege to their country?Or was it the Kremlin itself? Was it a so-called false flag operation – in which Russian air defenses destroyed the threat – aimed at stirring Russians to greater anger and enthusiasm for the war, or to generate support for a bid to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy?That was the question we were asking ourselves at the Monitor this morning. Ukraine intended to kill President Vladimir Putin with American help, Russian authorities say. Through the grainy eye of a surveillance camera, a drone descends toward the heart of the Kremlin and explodes. ![]() The video is spectacular, and the event was surely intended to be so. ![]() ![]() It would be some consolation to have such fine-looking grounds to wander through whenever she wished. There was no denying the beauty of the park. His face warmed with pleasure, and Elizabeth hurriedly looked out the window again, pretending to examine the nearer aspects of the house as they drove along a stream which wound its way downhill. I do not believe I have ever seen a house more fortunately situated." Obediently, she turned to him and said, "It is lovely, sir. She became aware that his eyes were upon her awaiting her response. ![]() In other circumstances, she might have been delighted by it. Of course, she had expected as much, having heard its praises sung by Miss Bingley as well as Darcy himself. The house was large and handsome, even at this distance, and its situation on a rising hill above the water was lovely. "There it is, across the valley-Pemberley House."Įlizabeth smiled at him dutifully, then looked out the window of the carriage to where he was pointing. "In a moment, when we leave the trees, you will be able to see the house," said Mr. She began writing The Pride and Prejudice Variations series in 2001, and encouragement from fellow Austen fans convinced her to continue asking "What if.?" She lives with her husband and two teenage children in Madison, Wisconsin. ![]() ![]() Abigail Reynolds is a physician and a lifelong Jane Austen enthusiast. ![]() ![]() Triton takes care of his master with an almost parental love, all the while learning about the world from Salgado's conversations and his many books. Salgado himself is a lonely academic, fascinated with marine life and the evolution of the sea. At first, Triton does odd chores for the houseman and cook, but gradually the clever lad learns all the workings of the household, and he eventually emerges as Salgado's only servant-in the process becoming a skillful and creative cook. Marine biology and native cuisine become metaphors for political and personal change as Gunesekera chronicles the story of Triton, who is 11 years old in 1962, his father an alcoholic, his mother dead, when he comes to the estate of aristocratic bachelor Ranjan Salgado. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this thoughtful, entrancing tale of a Sinhalese houseboy's maturation takes place in the early 1980s, in the edenic calm before Sri Lanka erupts in violence. ![]() ![]() Since being released on bond last month, Marsicano has been barred from attending class in person. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill law school student Jamie Marsicano, 30, was one of 23 people arrested on domestic terrorism charges March 5 after a large group of masked activists stormed a Georgia construction site and proceeded to bash equipment, torch a bulldozer and throw rocks and fireworks at retreating law enforcement officers, according to police surveillance footage. ![]() ![]() Students at North Carolina's flagship public university walked out of class Thursday to protest school officials' decision to ban a law school student from campus after she was charged with domestic terrorism last month following a violent protest over a planned Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center that activists derisively call “Cop City.” ![]() ![]() In Thieves, we follow Ella’s senior years, a young girl with a passion for manga and pop culture, with a slight rebellious temperament, a reflection of this time when touching the impossible can be a sign of fulfillment. And who knew how to reserve a place, more than deserved, in the selection youth of the french International Festival of the comic strip of Angoulême of 2023 and that of the third price BD of « France bleu ». ![]() ![]() An album that we can count among the best of the year. Lucie Bryon could deliver us in 2022 her first comic book: « Thieves ». After having devoted herself for several years to children’s comics as an illustrator (« Mini-mistress », « Les Enfants capables », « Le Gros Bobo de Jig jo »…). From « Animal crossing » to « Fire Emblem », from the adventures of his iconic cat Peanut to his self-published album « Hot-Milk ». Lucie Bryon is a talented artist, very present on the internet and social networks, sharing and illustrating her daily life as well as her exciting discovery of Yumi Tamura’s cult and iconic work « Basara », in addition to designing many webcomics. Lucie Bryon and the crystallization of adolescence ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruth has received the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, The Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, The Durfee Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships, the National Council of Teachers of English Notable Book Award, and recognition by The American Library Association. ![]() She is an award-winning author of the poetry collections Prayers Like Shoes (Whit, 2009), Renaissance (Beacon, 1997), and We Are the Young Magicians (Beacon, 1993) as well as the children’s book Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon (Children’s Book Press, 2007). Ruth Forman is the author of the board books Curls, Glow, Bloom, Ours and One (Simon & Schuster, 2020 – 2023). ![]() ![]() ![]() After this she learns from him that there is in fact a disease that runs in the family that is much worse than the made up one. She accepts the offer, but as time passes Iris begins reading in medicine books and finds out that her father has made up his statements about horror autotoxicus. Iris's father discovers the relationship and tries to bribe her to stay away from Tom by paying for her tuition to medical school. ![]() Despite this restriction Iris ends up befriending Tom Gilmore, only to find that their fathers are enemies. ![]() ![]() But the father of Iris lies about this and says that Horror autotoxicus had caused her mother's death and had been a reoccurring ailment for the Villarca family. However, Horror autotoxicus, a term labelled by Paul Ehrlich, was in fact not a disease, but instead a theory about a mechanism of the human body to protect itself. Iris's father justifies this isolation by stating that he fears that she will die from Horror autotoxicus. She and her father live in a mansion named Rawblood, where he keeps her isolated from the general population. Synopsis Īt the book's start Iris Villarca is an eleven-year-old girl growing up in Dartmoor during 1910. The novel is published in the USA Maby Sourcebooks, as The Girl From Rawblood. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2015 through Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Rawblood is the 2016 debut horror novel by Catriona Ward. Print (hardback, paperback), ebook, audiobook ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A full exploration of context establishes these texts as part of a single discourse which placed Alfred himself at the heart of all rightful power and authority. It explains the extraordinary burst of royal learned activity focused on inventive translations from Latin into Old English attributed to Alfred's own authorship. This book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871–99). Above all, the Life emerges as a work with strong resonances with the cultural preoccupations of the late ninth century. Taken as a whole, the ideas, allusions and influences present in the work allow Asser's Life to be seen not merely as a descriptive but also as a thematic portrait of the king's intellectual interests. ![]() In the process, Asser is shown to be an author with a keen sense of the prevailing notions of royal authority, but one equally aware of the potential dangers such notions could bring, particularly when one key royal attribute, humility, could be seen as indicative more of weakness than fitness to rule. This article attempts to place this account in its contemporary setting, analysing its devotional, intellectual and political contexts, in order to argue that, far from being an anomaly, it reflects the cultural interests of the Alfredian court and the influence upon it of contemporary Carolingian notions of rulership. Asser's account of Alfred's mysterious illnesses is one of the most puzzling and most-discussed passages in his Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He relocated to the United States in 1980 after marrying an American. He then joined Thames Television as editor of Thames News. He then joined BBC's Nationwide and was promoted to become head of current affairs at BBC Northern Ireland. ![]() He attempted to enlist in the British armed services at least three times but was rejected on the grounds of myopia. After he left them, he changed his name to his birth mother's maiden name, Cornwell.Ĭornwell was sent away to Monkton Combe School, attended the University of London, and after graduating, worked as a teacher. He was adopted and brought up in Essex by the Wiggins family, who were members of the Peculiar People, a strict Protestant sect who banned frivolity of all kinds and even medicine. His father was a Canadian airman, and his mother, who was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. ![]() |