![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.īefore marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. The youngest of three children of the Miller family. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. More than seventy detective novels of British writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie include The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and And Then There Were None (1939) she also wrote plays, including The Mousetrap (1952). Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan. ![]()
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![]() But late one night, when Gopal decides to share kahanis, or stories, he realizes that storytelling might be the boys' key to holding on to their sense of self and their hope for any kind of future. In this atmosphere of distrust and isolation, locked in a rundown building in an unknown part of the city, Gopal despairs of ever seeing his family again. The boys are forbidden to talk or even to call one another by their real names. There is no factory, just a small, stuffy sweatshop where he and five other boys are forced to make beaded frames for no money and little food. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family until school starts, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer. With the darkness of night as cover, they flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve, his baba has warned. ![]() ![]() The show celebrated the centenary of the posthumous publication of De Profundis, the very long letter Wilde wrote from his cell to Alfred Douglas. More than a hundred and twenty years later I rode the Great Western Railway from London to the city of Reading to view a major exhibition on Wilde at the only recently shut down prison. Wilde had dared to sue the Marquess of Queensbury, father of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, for libel after Queensbury had publicly accused him of being a “Somdomite.” The resulting trial produced evidence of Wilde’s other homosexual activity and two more trials, attended by massive publicity, resulted in his conviction on a charge of “gross indecency.” ![]() On May 25, 1895, the celebrated playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde entered Reading Gaol (as “jail” is spelled in British English) to serve two years’ hard labor for loving men instead of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() By 1986, he was Henry Rollins, a punk rock icon living in a garden shed, muscles covered in scars and tattoos, breathing a sigh of relief that his band had broken up and he didn’t have to be a rock star anymore. ![]() In 1981, Henry Lawrence Garfield was scooping ice cream at a Haagen-Danz in Washington D.C. Famous for his imposing physique – picture a bodybuilder covered in tattoos, often performing in only a pair of gym shorts – and his remarkable work ethic, Rollins is an intense character, and this is certainly evident in this book, which covers his early twenties. ![]() If idle hands are the Devil’s playground, then the Devil has never met Henry. Since 1981, he has worked non-stop, travelling to almost every country on earth, either as front-man for two successful bands or performing spoken word, releasing dozens of albums and playing thousands of shows. He is a spoken word performer, actor, writer, musician, songwriter and activist, and also a punk rock legend. Today, at almost sixty, Rollins’ body of work is formidable. Written by: Tom Wilson | Sense Music Media The Diaries of Henry Rollins - Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the three volumes, Undset blends various literary styles and folkloric traditions to reflect the beautiful, severe, and disciplined lives of medieval Norwegian families. Undset begins the first volume of Kristin Lavransdatter- The Bridal Wreath-by cataloging Kristin’s lineage, thus setting her story among the medieval epics. ![]() These books propel the reader back to a time when social roles were strictly defined, when the medieval church touched nearly every aspect of life, but also when folklore traditions still held sway. Kristin Lavransdatter is a compelling heroine, even for the twenty-first-century reader, because she is strong-willed, but also because she is so steeped in her time. Undset’s three books demonstrate her study of medieval texts through her accurate portrayal of Kristin’s life in fact, these books led to Sigrid Undset winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. From maidenhood to death, Kristin’s life weaves together details from northern Europe’s medieval history, politics, religion, and family life. Originally published in 1920-1922 as The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, and The Cross, Undset’s trilogy follows the life of its fourteenth-century Norwegian heroine. Kristin Lavransdatter is Sigrid Undset’s three-part epic chronicling the life of the titular character from early childhood to medieval old age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. The cookie is set by instagram to enable the user to browse through the website securely by preventing any cross-site request forgery. This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. ![]() ![]() ![]() She writes it off as the effects of her anxiety, but when their expedition leader begins to change-her limbs elongating, her body contorting-and grow violent, Riley knows the danger she feels is real. In the eerie haze of evening sunlight, Riley sees something out of the corner of her eye-something that's watching them. It was just the opportunity she had been searching for-an escape from the ridicule she'd received after a panic attack at school, a fresh start.īut their small team isn't alone in the remote, frozen reaches of the polar south. One week ago, Riley Kowalski joined a team of four other teens for an internship on climate change research in the Antarctic, sponsored by one of the world's largest tech companies. ![]() From the author of To Break a Covenant comes an edge-of-your-seat read that will leave your heart pounding. ![]() ![]() Because war is “at least in part, a contest for meaning,” King Phillip’s War was about defining identity-for both sides (xxxi). ![]() Ultimately, she argues that “wounds and words-the injuries and their interpretation-cannot be separated, that acts of war generate acts of narration, and that both types of acts are often joined in a common purpose: defining the geographical, political, cultural, and sometimes racial and national boundaries between peoples” (x). She asks what this war meant, how it was fought, how it was understood, and how it was remembered by both sides. In this “study of war,” Lepore examines the conflict between colonists, American “Indians” 1 that razed English colonies and ravaged Indian-English relations. ![]() The first words of Jill Lepore’s The Name of War work surprisingly well as an introduction to a review on the very same book. ![]() “ This is a study of war, and how people write about it” (ix). The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() “American Revolutions” is a sequel to Taylor’s book “American Colonies,” and it is written against histories that treat the two eras as disjointed. It is, as the title says, an account not of one revolution but several revolutions - not all of which were, or are, completed. It is a book about multiple groups of people acting according to their interests and the struggles that arose as those interests overlapped, diverged and clashed, sometimes violently. This is not a book about the evolution of political institutions, or ideology, or - especially - the romantic mythology of the American founding. It was, Taylor writes, “our first civil war, rife with divisions, violence and destruction.” The war was a messy conflict, inchoate and confusing, often fought by reluctant actors without a strong sense of national identity. ![]() The stranger’s face is painted half-black, half-red, “as if two individual devils, a fiend of fire and a fiend of darkness, had united themselves to form this infernal visage.” To Hawthorne - and to Taylor - this face is emblematic of the revolution. A stranger appears, a member of a mob that is tarring and feathering a royalist. Alan Taylor begins “American Revolutions” instead with a scene from a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now he's a powerful, vengeful ghost and he has plans for Jake. In life, Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school before taking his own life. Though most ghosts are harmless and Jake is always happy to help them move on to the next place, Sawyer Doon wants much more from Jake. Unfortunately, life as a medium is getting worse. Clair start looking up with the arrival of another Black student-the handsome Allister-and for the first time, romance is on the horizon for Jake. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. ![]() But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St. Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee. ![]() |