![]() A cofounder of the Socialist League, he was a committed revolutionary socialist who played a major part in the growing acceptance of Marxism and anarchism in English society. Morris also found success as a writer with such works as The Earthly Paradise (1870), News from Nowhere (1890), and The Well at the World’s End (1896). As a cofounder of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, & Co., he was one of the Victorian era’s preeminent interior decorators and designers specializing in tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, stained glass, and furniture. With Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he designed the Red House in Bexleyheath, where he would live with his family from 1859 until moving to London in 1865. ![]() Upon graduating, he married embroiderer Jane Burden and befriended prominent Pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The 'Nowhere' of News from Nowhere (1890) is England in 2102, an ideal pastoral society born out of revolution. ![]() Morris studied Classics at Oxford, where he was a member of the influential Birmingham Set. This volume illustrates the variety of William Morris's prose, while focusing on one theme: the earthly paradise. It first appeared in his socialist newspaper Commonweal, encouraging readers to continue the. ![]() Born in Walthamstow, Essex, he was raised in a wealthy family alongside nine siblings. This book describes Morriss vision of a better society. ![]() William Morris (1834-1896) was an English designer, poet, novelist, and socialist. ![]()
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![]() But when I’ve told the story I had to tell, it’s time to start something different.” Of course, it’s a little scary when you’re making such and such dollars a year because of a character. “All the usual stuff.” But Sookie is well and truly finished, Harris insists: “She’s in my rearview mirror. “I had death threats, and people putting curses on me,” she said in a recent phone conversation. ![]() More recently, Charlaine Harris has heard from readers livid at her 2013 novel “Dead Ever After,” which ended her beloved Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series (the basis for the HBO show “True Blood”). ![]() When Arthur Conan Doyle tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, readers objected so strenuously that Doyle - after trying to mollify them with a prequel - finally gave in and resurrected the character as a cross-dressing mixed martial artist played by Robert Downey Jr. Something Different: Fans of long-running series can have a hard time letting go. ![]() ![]() When Anne finds herself in her MacLeod chief’s presence, she chooses to go with him in order to leave a message for her parents. ![]() The last thing he expects though is a woman claiming to come from the future, a woman who stirs him on a physical and emotional level to protect, and to even believe. Highland warrior Alex MacDonald has made an agreement to handfast with Anne in order to bring a halt to the feud raging between their clans. Only Anne sees the possibilities, because now she could change the future and ensure her parents never perished in the inferno which took their lives. Traveling through time… for a Highlander.Anne MacLeod’s identical ancestor has made a wish on the Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle, one which sees the two young women swapping places in time and leaving Anne set to handfast with the very man her ancestor wished to escape. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume contains works discovered through this project-specifically, color photography from slides never before published or seen by the public. ![]() His studio in the East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation, which has commenced a full-scale survey of his more than 80,000 works. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York’s street life with a gorgeous painterliness that evoked the sensuality of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries Rothko and Newman. Now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision ![]() ![]() ![]() But should she get revenge on the woman who ruined her dreams - or try to get her job back? Does Demeter – the woman who has everything – actually have such an idyllic life herself? Maybe they have more in common than it seems. Then Demeter and her family book in for a holiday, and Katie sees her chance. She has to move home to Somerset, where she helps her dad with his new glamping business. ![]() Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. The sequel to Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, it was released in 2002. Ok, so the real truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn’t really hers. My (Not So) Perfect Life is a young adult novel by Dyan Sheldon. OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn’t really hers.īut one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren’t they? Summary Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, I think I have actually come to loathe this book. ![]() I do not read The Giving Tree to my kids. As Ruth Margalit wrote in her piece for the New Yorker that marked the 50th anniversary of the publication, " The Giving Tree at Fifty : Sadder than I Remembered," discovering that her childhood favorite "wasn't at all what I remembered carried with it a peculiar thrill, a kind of scientific proof that I'd grown up and changed." Recently while talking about this book with a customer, I had a very interesting experience that allowed me to express my adult feelings about The Giving Tree and contemplate how they have changed since I read it as a child. As a kid reading it, I knew there was something different about this book, that it stood out among the other picture books of the time. I still have the copy that was given to me by my brother on my 11th birthday in 1979 and I have memories of reading it as a kid and watching the animated version made in 1973 (narrated by Shel himself) and loving it very much. If you don't own it, I know you have read it or had it read to you at some point in your existence. I feel certain that most of you reading this right now own a copy of Shel Silverstein's 1964 book, The Giving Tree. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the weekend Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk floated the idea that Cousins could land a fully-guaranteed contract - a rarity in the NFL, especially for what is expected to be a long-term deal - and that the Jets might be willing to propose such an offer. But Cousins has also indicated that he wants to find " the best possible position to win," meaning that perennial also-rans might have to sweeten the deal a bit in order to attract his services. Kirk Cousins was already set to become one of the highest paid free agents in NFL history this offseason, and according to a recent report, it's possible the deal could be even more insane than previously imagined.Ĭousins enters the offseason as the marquee free agent on the market, with suitors likely to include the Jets, Browns, and a number of other teams that are in need of stability at quarterback. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t hear anything until my alarm goes off an hour or so later. My body has grown so accustomed to his routine that I don’t even hear the noise. This happens every day, and I don’t hear a thing. ![]() When he opens and closes the door leading to the garage, the alarm in the bedroom beeps three times…loudly. He clears his throat, blows his nose, and, well, does other noisy things. He gets up, showers, shaves, brushes his teeth, gets dressed, and places his jingling keys in his pocket. And the God of peace will be with you,( Philippians 4:8-9 NIV)Įvery weekday morning my husband’s alarm clock goes off at 5:30 a.m. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me-put it into practice. Are You Lying to Yourself about Yourself?įinally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moon and Bá’s visual approach is more suggestive than representative but manages just the right amount of detail and thoughtful coloring, supplied by Dave Stewart, to masterfully draw the reader into the lush social and physical backdrop of Domingos’s life and, more broadly, Brazil as a nation. ![]() Each section bears the structure of an obituary and serves as a sometimes sobering and often life-affirming meditation on the weight of individual decisions and the balancing effect of fate. Adding to the layers of symbolism, Domingos languishes in his young adulthood in the shadow of his father’s legacy, working as an obituary writer. Originally serialized in ten separate comic books, Daytripper achieves the almost impossible task of playing equally to the individual unit and the finished work by making each story an alternative version of the last day of Domingos’s life, marking that point at a variety of locations along his possible timeline. Written and drawn by Brazilian twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (see WLT, March 2007), Daytripper is organized around the life of an aspiring writer named Brás de Olivia Domingos, whose father is a revered novelist. ISBN 9781401229696ĭaytripper is the rarest of graphic novels-a work meeting all the expectations of great literature that somehow emerged from the grinding gears of the American mainstream comics industry. ![]() ![]() But now, like all unmarried young ladies of fortune, she is made the ward of King Richard the Lionheart. ![]() ![]() Marian is left alone again'a widow who has never been a bride. But when she is seventeen, Lord Hugh, whom she hasn't seen in years, dies under mysterious circumstances. The author of The Blue Sword retells the adventures of Robin Hood and his band of outlaws who live in Sherwood Forest in twelfth-century England.Īn orphan and heiress to a large country estate, Marian Fitzwater is wed at the age of five to an equally young nobleman, Lord Hugh of Sencaster, a union that joins her inheritance to his. The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley ( see also our list of Rapunzel retellings) All blurbs taken from Amazon/Book Depository cover images from Book Depository. Ive rounded up some of the most likely contenders, but if you have any youd like to add, feel free to let me know in the comments below. ![]() The Robin Hood myth has always held a special place in my heart (in part because Im a poor author and hope that someday someone will redistribute the wealth of the rich to me, and in part because I have a thing for men in tights), and given the recent spate of folkloric/fairytale retellings, I thought Id see just how many Robin Hood retellings were out there. ![]() |