![]() ![]() ![]() She inaugurated women's liberation and embarked on the path to introduce parliamentary elections to China. It was she who abolished gruesome punishments like "death by a thousand cuts" and put an end to foot-binding. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, the telegraph and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. d and made herself the real ruler of China-behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husban. ![]() When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern ChinaĪt the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. ![]()
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But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel. Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. ![]() When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him. The second book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.Ī hero will be forged from this broken land.Īs seen on Netflix and BBC around the world. ![]() ![]() The version who was told that “nobody’s ever come into this office and asked us not to make a movie before.” Wearing his familiar black t-shirt and jacket, he talks about how “incredibly envious” he is of his younger self – the version of Neil Gaiman who fought back against a Sandman movie he didn’t think would work. But when he speaks with IGN on the occasion of the show's release, he comes across as deeply introspective, his comments occasionally peppered with interjections from showrunner Allan Heinberg, with whom he has an easy back-and-forth rapport. Gaiman, once so reticent to see this happen, has been tirelessly stumping for the show on his 2.9 million follower Twitter account and elsewhere. Launching on Netflix earlier today, reviews of the 10-episode series have been positive, with IGN’s Amelia Emberwing calling it a "dream of an adaptation." It wound up taking more than 30 years, but The Sandman is finally getting the screen version Gaiman previously thought impossible. I would so much rather that it never got made than a bad version would get made,” Neil Gaiman tells IGN. ![]() “I didn't care about it just getting made. ![]() ![]() ![]() The future of her beloved store itself is threatened when Ulysses’ success brings other publishers to woo Joyce away. When Joyce’s controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company.īut the success and notoriety of publishing the most infamous and influential book of the century comes with steep costs. It’s where some of the most important literary friendships of the twentieth century are forged-none more so than the one between Irish writer James Joyce and Sylvia herself. Shakespeare and Company is more than a bookstore and lending library: Many of the most prominent writers of the Lost Generation, like Ernest Hemingway, consider it a second home. ![]() ![]() ![]() When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Indie bestseller and Veranda Magazine Book Club pick!ĭiscover the dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in the White Gloves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The government’s been hiding this from everyone, running a secret school on a military base to teach a select group of kids magic, but sometimes secrets get out, no matter how hard we try to keep them hidden … especially when one of those secrets ends up destroying Washington, D.C. Unlike my series STORY THIEVES or HALF UPON A TIME, REVENGE OF MAGIC takes place entirely in our world, just a version of it where magic returned thirteen years ago, and only kids born since then are able to use it. THE REVENGE OF MAGIC, the first in my new series of seven books, tends to surprise people who’ve read my books before, including me at times. ![]() James Riley’s Selfie with The Revenge of Magic He is the New York Times bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time, Story Thieves, and Revenge of Magic series. The Children’s Book Review | May 15, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2021, Marvel Studios’ Disney Plus series “Loki,” the title character (played by Tom Hiddleston) revealed he is pansexual and the feature film “Eternals” included the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first same-sex couple, played by Brian Tyree Henry and Haaz Sleiman.Īdil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (“Bad Boys For Life”) are directing “Batgirl.” The film costars J.K. ![]() The animated DC series “Harley Quinn” ended its second season with Harley and Poison Ivy falling in love and the DC Films adaptation “Birds of Prey” included lesbian police detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez). The lead character on the CW’s “Batwoman” has always been a lesbian, whether played by Ruby Rose in Season 1 or Javicia Leslie on subsequent seasons. The CW series “Supergirl” included the first trans superhero on TV in Dreamer (played by Nicole Maines) and the title superhero’s sister, Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh), came out as a lesbian on Season 2. There have been several strides in broadening LGBTQ representation in superhero adaptations over the past few years, especially on television. ![]() ![]() Along with Bate's excellent general introduction and short essays, this collection includes a range of aids to the reader such as on-page notes explaining unfamiliar terms and key facts boxes providing plot summaries and additional helpful context. ![]() Now featuring the entire range of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, this edition is expanded to include both The Passionate Pilgrim and A Lover's Complaint. Along with new colour photographs from a vibrant range of RSC productions, a new Stage Notes feature documenting the staging choices in 100 RSC productions showcases the myriad ways in which Shakespeare's plays can be brought to life. This stunning revised edition goes further to present Shakespeare's plays as they were originally intended – as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed on stage. ![]() Curated by expert editors Sir Jonathan Bate and Professor Eric Rasmussen, the text in this collection is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio: the first and original Complete Works lovingly assembled by Shakespeare's fellow actors, and the version of Shakespeare's text preferred by many actors and directors today. ![]() "The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present." – Greg Doran, RSC Artistic Director Emeritus Developed in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this Complete Works of William Shakespeare combines exemplary textual scholarship with beautiful design. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. Lang: - Francais, Vol: - Volume Volume 1, Pages 400, Print on Demand. ![]() Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition published long back. 400 Unique Leather Bound Edition having Spine and corners bind with leather with Golden Leaf Printing on round spine. ![]() ![]() The different documents cannot be satisfactorily arranged to establish any singular narrative order. The novel-in- fragments follows the overlapping lives of several characters who once lived on the different floors of a multistoried brownstone apartment in Chicago. ![]() Ware’s experimental and unique “book” is made up of fourteen printed documents, ranging from booklets to broadsheets, enclosed in a box. In this article, after briefly enumerating narrative fictions that experiment with the book’s body and outlining the scholarly attempts to study them, I use the rhetorical approach, which understands narratives as acts of purposive communication from authors to readers, to analyze Chris Ware’s graphic novel, Building Stories (2012). Depending on the manner in which such reconfigurations of the textual form inflect the reader’s overall narrative experience, these narrative fictions risk coming across as gimmicky, fetishizing an older media object, or end up being successful examinations of the affordances of the book’s body in the face of emerging media technologies. These fictions may or may not be born digital, but they insist on being engaged in print, which, in turn, reinstates the relationship of printed books with the bodies of readers who physically hold them and turn their pages. The book’s body emerges as a topos in narrative fictions at the interface of print and digital cultures. ![]() |