![]() ![]() They want to “bring society to rights” by putting women back where they belong-as homemakers and caretakers, the loving presence in the home with the children, silent. ![]() In “Pure Girl Schools” they are still taught numbers, but really, you don’t need to know anything else to run a household because that is what the religious fanatics who call themselves the “Pure Movement” aim to do. On the day women all over America have the counters fixed on their wrists, they not only lose their voices, they lose their jobs, and are no longer allowed to read or write. Worse still, if you’re LGBTQ+, an adulterer, or just generally disobey, you get sent to camps in the countryside where your daily allotted word count is 0. The consequences for disobeying or going over the limit are not pretty. Vox takes place in an America where the female population is given an allotted 100 words per day. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Then I widened my net to include both men and women. I began my writing career with biographies of 19th century women, so I could explore how real-life Dorotheas quietly cast off convention and achieved some measure of fulfilment. The novel's theme - the place of women in a changing but still patriarchal society - triggered my own interest in women's lives, past and present. As soon as I met Dorothea, the main character, I was drawn into her world and her dilemmas. I read it for the first time in my 20s, and I regularly re-read it. "Middlemarch by George Eliot is a masterpiece of Victorian literature, with its large cast and close observation of human nature. (Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade/Penguin Classics) George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) taught himself to paint as a child, before enrolling for evening classes at the Lambeth School of Art as a teenager. Dealer Notesįirst edition, third trade issue. The books, which have not been offered on the market for the best part of a century, contain some of Rackham’s best-known series of illustrations. See also our other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham on our website! These books are being sold on behalf of a client who inherited them from his grandfather, the original owner of the collection. (Spine slightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, boards slightly bowed, upper hinge cracking). (A few light spots and marks.) Original russet-brown cloth gilt, upper board lettered in gilt and with design after Rackham, spine lettered in gilt, dark-brown endpapers, front free endpaper with ‘Map of Peter Pan’s Kensington Gardens’ after Rackham, all edges brown. Wood-engraved vignette and further decoration on title, and 2 wood-engraved illustrations and one letterpress diagram in the text, all after Rackham. Colour-printed frontispiece and 49 colour-printed plates after Rackham, all mounted on dark-brown paper and with tissue guards bearing printed captions. AN ‘ACKNOWLEDGED MASTERPIECE’ WHICH BECAME ‘THE OUTSTANDING CHRISTMAS GIFT-BOOK OF 1906 – AND MAINTAINED ITS HOLD FOR MANY LATER CHRISTMASES’ ![]() ![]() delivering sermons, speeches, lectures, and addresses. Years in the making, and woven together from thousands of recordings and documents, including letters to his family and diary entries, this program is a unique compilation which includes many rare recordings of Martin Luther King, Jr. In original recordings of his own vivid, compassionate voice, here at last is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s unforgettable chronicle of his life and his legacy. This history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King in his own words as read by others and in his own words and voice: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation the dedicated young minister who continually questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family's needs with those of a growing, nationwide movement and the reflective, world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere. drawn from a comprehensive collection of writings, recordings, and documentary materials, many of which have never before been made public. Now, in a special program commissioned and authorized by his family, here is the life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() was one of the twentieth century's most influential men and lived one of its most extraordinary lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is an astonishing achievement." - Mark Sanderson, Daily Telegraph (.) Anyone who finished Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon or Lawrence Norfolk's Lempriere's Dictionary will enjoy Quicksilver. "Stephenson's mission to explain is balanced by a desire to entertain: there is more sex and violence on display here than in any Tarantino movie.It was no doubt hell to edit (if indeed it was)." - Lucy Sussex, The Age ![]() Perhaps the most relevant comparison is with Dumas's famous riposte: "True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring." Quicksilver teeters on the brink of being too big, too audacious.
![]() ![]() Such a tumultuous political past arises in part from a fascinating native people, and "A History of the Czech Lands" profiles the Czechs in great detail, delving into past and present traditions and explaining how generation after generation adapted to a perpetually changing government and economy. ![]() Panek and Tuma's history begins in the Neolithic era and follows the development of the state as it transformed into the Kingdom of Bohemia during the ninth century, into Czechoslovakia after World War I, and finally into the Czech Republic. With "A History of the Czech Lands", editors Jaroslav Panek and Oldrich Tuma - along with several scholars from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University Prague - provide one of the most complete historical accounts of this region to date. Despite its youth as a nation, this land and the areas just outside its modern borders boasts an ancient and intricate past. ![]() Born January 1, 1993, after it split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. ![]() ![]() Alas, the groom died before reaching the mansion. ![]() ![]() A thousand years earlier, it was to be the site of a lavish wedding. The friends wile away the late-night hours with round after round of eerie tales. In the case of newly engaged Nadia and Faiz, presumably they love each other to the extent that rich people can be said to experience human emotion, but otherwise there is a tremendous amount of baggage cluttering this group friendship.ĭetermined to enjoy the full potential of the spooky mansion, Nadia suggests that the gang share ghost stories. Despite (or perhaps due to) spending years hopping in and out of each other’s beds to accompaniment of romantic drama, it’s not especially clear if the gang still likes each other all that much. Because what could go wrong with a quiet weekend out in the woods in a haunted mansion?Ĭalling Cat, Phillip, Lin, Nadia, and Faiz friends might be over-egging the pudding somewhat. Instead, he pulls strings to get access to Heian-era mansion.īecause Phillip has more money than he knows what to do with, the mansion he selects is, of course, haunted. When he decides to treat his friends to a lavish getaway, he doesn’t just book them into a five-star holiday resort. ![]() Phillip has money, lots and lots of money. ![]() Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing but Blackened Teeth is a standalone ghost story. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Black Swan has appealing cheek and admirable ambition." -The New York Times Book Review, " The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works."-Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate "Hugely enjoyable-compelling. ![]() easy to dip into." - Financial Times "Engaging. We eagerly romp with him through the follies of confirmation bias narrative fallacy." -The Wall Street Journal "Hugely enjoyable-compelling. easy to dip into."- Financial Times "A masterpiece."-Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail "Idiosyncratically brilliant."-Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times From the Trade Paperback edition., Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb "The most prophetic voice of all." -GQ Praise for The Black Swan " that altered modern thinking." - The Times (London) "A masterpiece." -Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired, author of The Long Tail "Idiosyncratically brilliant." -Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times " The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works." -Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate " in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne. ![]() " The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works."-Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate "Hugely enjoyable-compelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition of The Gutenberg Galaxy celebrates both the centennial of McLuhan's birth and the fifty-year anniversary of the book's publication. The Gutenberg Galaxy foresaw the networked, compressed 'global village' that would emerge in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries - despite having been written when black-and-white television was ubiquitous. Readers will be amazed by McLuhan's prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we communicate. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Kitty Pong, married to China's second richest man, billionaire Jack Bing, still feels second best next to her new step-daughter, famous fashionista Colette Bing. As her relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu, but tormented by her ex-husband-a man hell bent on destroying Astrid's reputation and relationship. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park-a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore-Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. Book Three of the Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside-but he's not alone. From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture) and China Rich Girlfriend, here is the uproarious conclusion to the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. ![]() |