The masque of the red death poem5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think. ![]() The external world could take care of itself. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his crenellated abbeys. And the whole seizure, progress, and termination of the disease, were incidents of half an hour.īut Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. Blood was its Avatar and its seal-the madness and the horror of blood. ![]() No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. The red death had long devastated the country. Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death" by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), published in 1919. ![]()
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Odenkirk memoir5/29/2023 ![]() Charting a “Homeric” decades-long “odyssey” from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award nominations-with a side-trip into the action-man world that is baffling to all who know him-it’s almost like there are many Bob Odenkirks! But there is just one and one is plenty.īob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City’s legendary Del Close. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vulture, Newsweekīob Odenkirk’s career is inexplicable. “I can’t think of another entertainer who has improbably morphed so many times, and all through real genius and determination.”-Conan O’Brien Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty. In this “essential” ( Entertainment Weekly), “hilarious” ( AV Club) memoir, the star of Mr. ![]() Detour from Normal by Ken Dickson5/29/2023 ![]() Nevertheless, Life still has big plans for him and his sidekicks-if only they heed its subtle messages. The story ignites a fire within him that will not extinguish until he eradicates the unnatural freaks.Īs Willie strikes, Ken’s world, including his marriage, comes crashing down. Ignoring his wife’s protests, he abandons his career and joins them to supercharge humanity’s future.Īcross town, Willie Lemm is content with his life of crime until he reads a scathing tabloid article about Ken and his crew of misfits. ![]() Unfortunately, he can accomplish little while confined to a psych ward.Īfter recovering from mania, Ken casts his former delusions aside and moves on - until people around him begin to transform. Inspired, he devises a plan to hasten its spread and usher in a new age. When Ken Dickson unexpectedly acquires superhuman abilities, he wonders if his condition is contagious. ![]() The Road to Amistad: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself ![]() Mine to Take by Cynthia Eden5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal mistake. He won’t let her go again.īut with the threats mounting against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. And the one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. Now, he can have anything-or anyone-that he wants. ![]() He’s not just a poor kid from the streets any longer. The years have changed him, hardened him. He’ll protect her from the danger that lurks in the darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he agrees to help Skye. Now Trace is one of the most successful men in the United States. She’d put all of her emotion into dancing, and she’d tried to forget him. He’d joined the military, vanishing from her life. ![]() Two lost souls, they’d come together in a firestorm of need and desire. When someone breaks into her apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect her-Trace Weston. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash, and she fears that he won’t stop pursuing her, not until she’s dead. The accident ended her dancing career and sent her fleeing back to Chicago. Months ago, Skye was involved in a dangerous car accident. Skye Sullivan knows that someone is watching her. Genre: Suspense,Books,Romance,New Adult,Military,Contemporary,Īnd love can turn into a deadly obsession. ![]() Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather good this, and a great 'mash up' of genres. Torn between two boys, one in the past and one in the present, Andre has to figure out where he belongs - and more importantly who he wants to be - before the consequences of jumping in time catch up to him and change his future for good. Michael is everything Andre wishes he could be, and Blake, still reeling from the death of his brother, Andre's donor, keeps him at arm's length despite their obvious attraction to each other. And they've tasked their youngest son, Blake, with teaching Andre how to use his unexpected new gift.Īndre splits his time bouncing between the past and future - between Michael and Blake. He's ready for his life to finally begin, until one night, when he passes out and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected - in 1969, where he connects with a magnetic boy named Michael.Īnd then, just as suddenly as he arrived, he slips back to present-day Boston, where the family of his donor is waiting to explain that his new liver came with a side effect - the ability to time travel. Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant. ![]() Capital and ideology by thomas piketty5/29/2023 ![]() Ga naar onze Privacyverklaring voor meer informatie over hoe en voor welke doeleinden Amazon persoonsgegevens gebruikt (zoals de bestelgeschiedenis van Amazon Store).Ī New York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year ![]() Je kunt je keuzes op elk moment wijzigen door naar Cookievoorkeuren te gaan, zoals beschreven in de Cookieverklaring. Klik op 'Cookies aanpassen' om deze cookies te weigeren, meer gedetailleerde keuzes te maken of voor meer informatie. Derde partijen gebruiken cookies om persoonlijke advertenties weer te geven en te meten, doelgroepinzichten te genereren en producten te ontwikkelen en te verbeteren. ![]() Dit omvat het gebruik van cookies van eerste en derde partijen die standaard apparaatgegevens, zoals een unieke ID, opslaan of openen. We gebruiken deze cookies ook om te begrijpen hoe klanten onze diensten gebruiken (bijvoorbeeld door websitebezoeken te meten), zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen.Īls je ermee akkoord gaat, gebruiken we ook cookies om je winkelervaring in de Amazon Stores te verbeteren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. ![]() We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools die nodig zijn zodat je aankopen kan doen, en om je winkelervaringen te verbeteren en om onze diensten te leveren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. ![]() Beyond good and evil frederick5/28/2023 ![]() What does Europe owe to the Jews? Many things both good and bad, and one thing above all, at once the best and the worst: the grand moral style, the horror and the majesty of everlasting demands, everlasting meanings, the whole sublime romanticism of moral questions… He’s not as antisemitic as you might think him. ![]() ![]() It’s fairly certain that in the 21 st century most of us think this way… Little by little I came to understand what every great philosophy to date has been: the personal confession of its author, a kind of unintended and unwitting memoir. Admitting untruth as a condition of life: that means to resist familiar values in a dangerous way and a philosophy that dares this has already placed itself beyond good and evil. Man could not live without accepting logical fictions, without measuring reality by the purely invented world of the unconditional (…) that to give up false judgements would be to give up life, to deny life. ![]() I read this book with a pencil in hand, and so I underlined many of the passages that I found intriguing. I decided in this particular case not to do a proper review. This was the first book of Nietzsche’s that I’ve ever read, although I have heard lots of him – and I think I also read some short extracts from Thus Spake Zarathustra. ![]() The passage cronin novel5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It's taut and tight and, from the amorality of the military experiments to the passing references to America's polluted, lawless state, everything in the opening section drips with dread. The first section details the virus's discovery and subsequent tests conducted on death-row inmates. The downside is that it also gives them fangs, claws, glowstick orange skin, a taste for human flesh and raging photophobia. The story starts in the near future with government experiments on a virus that gives those infected with it superhuman strength and eternal life. The public's turn has finally come and The Passage is being touted as this year's blockbuster beach read. Cronin became a rich man long before the public got their hands on his work (the book and film deals netted over $5m). When the first chapters of Justin Cronin's vampire fantasy started circulating in US publishing houses back in 2007, they sparked a fierce bidding war. T his is one of those books that arrives on the shelves with a backstory. ![]() Rose daughter robin mckinley5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent-Merrilee Heifetz, Writers House, Inc., 21 West 26th St., New York, NY 10010. I grow more cynical all the time, and am now more likely to belong to countryside-saving charities." Religion: "Lapsed Protestant." Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, horses, walking, travel, many kinds of music, and life as an expatriate and the English-American culture chasm.ĪDDRESSES: Home-Hampshire, England. Politics: "Few affiliations, although I have strong feelings pro-ERA and pro-freedom-anti- big business and anti-big government. Education: Attended Dickinson College, 1970–72 Bowdoin College, B.A. Navy and Merchant Marines) and Jeanne Carolyn (a teacher maiden name, Turrell) McKinley married Peter Dickinson (an author), January 3, 1992. PERSONAL: Born November 16, 1952, in Warren, OH daughter of William (in the U.S. ![]() ![]() Hitty's observations about advances made in transportation may be lost on children who aren't yet aware that there was a time before cares.Ī logical child will not find the book very suspenseful because even when Hitty is in a difficult situation one can surmise that she'll be rescued or she wouldn't be writing the story. She provides commentary on social, fashion and technological advances. It is a fast moving story that covers more than just tea parties and embraces on a stormy nights. ![]() ![]() She is put on the owner's desk every night for safe keeping and so decides to write her memoirs. Hitty, the doll, has finally come to "live" in an antique shop. This is a really fun concept for a story, told through a doll's eyes, about all the adventures her multiple owners take her on. ![]() |