![]() In 1917 Sassoon tried to rebel against the war by making a public anti-war statement. One of Graves's closest friends at this time was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was also an officer in the RWF. Apart from a brief spell back in France, he spent the rest of the war in England. At the Battle of the Somme he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die, and indeed was officially reported as 'died of wounds'. In later years he omitted war poems from his collections, on the grounds that they were too obviously "part of the war poetry boom". He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about his experience of front line conflict. He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. ![]() Johnstone, a boy of fourteen ("Dick" in Goodbye to All That) When challenged by the headmaster he defended himself by citing Plato, Greek poets, Michelangelo & Shakespeare, "who had felt as I did".Īt the outbreak of WWI, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. ![]() While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G.H. ![]() Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985), born in Wimbledon, received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. ![]()
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Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone-a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with.īee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shylock-a miserly Jew moneylender father of Jessica. Nerissa-Portia's waiting maid-in love with Gratiano later the wife of Gratiano disguises herself as Portia's clerk. ![]() Portia-a rich heiress later the wife of Bassanio. Lorenzo-friend of Antonio and Bassanio in love with Jessica later the husband of Jessica. Gratiano-friend of Antonio and Bassanio in love with Nerissa later the husband of Nerissa. Bassanio-Antonio's close friend suitor to Portia later the husband of Portia. Antonio-a prominent merchant of Venice in a melancholic mood. Critic Harold Bloom listed it among Shakespeare's great comedies. Also notable is Portia's speech about the quality of mercy. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for Shylock and his famous Hath not a Jew eyes? speech on humanity. It is believed to have been written between 15. The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Orwell opposed censorship, not only official state censorship, which was “obviously … not desirable,” but the informal censorship of the media. On Wednesday, Anthony Shaffer, retired military intelligence officer and adviser to the Trump campaign, accused the BBC’s Evan Davis of using “Orwellian language to change what happened” when Davis described the president “inspiring insurrection, sedition, violent attack on Congress.” I will fight this cancel culture with everything I have.” This is the Left looking to cancel everyone they don’t approve of. “Only approved speech can now be published. “This could not be more Orwellian” he wrote. ![]() Minutes earlier, Josh Hawley – the Missouri senator and outspoken proponent of Trump’s false claims to have won the 2020 election, who offered a raised fist to those assembled outside the Capitol, just hours before the mob turned violent and forcibly breached the building’s defenses – had responded to the news that Simon & Schuster had decided to cancel his book contract with a tweet. ![]() ![]() ![]() In June, 2021, THE BOMBAY PRINCE, third book in the series, releases in the US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand it will be published by Penguin India later the same month. She is best known for the Perveen Mistry series published in the United States by Soho Press and in India by Penguin Random House India. ![]() Sujata Massey is the author of historical and mystery fiction set in Asia. It's her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that nobody is in further danger. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate and realizes her instincts about the will were correct when tensions escalate to murder. The Farid widows live in purdah: strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. What will they live on if they forefeit what their husband left them? Perveen is suspicious. But as Perveen goes through the papers, she notices something strange: all three have signed over their inheritance to a charity. ![]() Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's rights. Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. ![]() ![]() Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” ( New York Times). Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. ![]() The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. ![]() ![]() Photograph: Ed Miller/Sony Pictures Television Spy-on-spy spying! … Lily Thomas (Anna Maxwell Martin). ![]() It becomes a sort of espionage stew at this point, jumping around in time from the early days of Philby and Elliott’s friendship in the second world war, to MI5’s 1963 interrogation of Elliott, to work out who knew what about Philby and when. His close friend and fellow SIS (AKA MI6) agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) is tasked with going to Beirut to retrieve Philby and extract a full confession, despite appearing to doubt the depth of his friend’s betrayal. It begins with the big reveal that Philby ( Guy Pearce) is a traitor who has been working for the KGB and feeding them intel for the past 20 years. It comes with a starry cast and what should be an irresistible tale of intrigue, double-crossing and suspense, stretched out over multiple locations from Istanbul, Beirut and London to Moscow and Ohio. This is one of the flagship dramas to launch ITV’s revamped online player and new subscription service. ![]() T he story of the notorious MI6 agent and Soviet spy Kim Philby has been told numerous times before, but A Spy Among Friends (ITVX) has a fresh bash at it, using Ben Macintyre’s book of the same name as its source and inspiration. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If, like me, you are familiar with the story then the suspense comes not from the “what happened” but rather the “why.” I wish I had entered into the book with no knowledge of the case because I think I would have enjoyed it so much more. If you don’t know what happened to Agatha Christie, this book will work much, much better as a mystery. Her disappearance was widely covered by the press, and Her car was found abandoned on the side of the road, her luggage inside, as well as a winter coat it was assumed she would have been wearing due to the temperature outside. ![]() She was planning on going to Yorkshire for the weekend, but never arrived at her destination. ![]() Agatha Christie disappeared for eleven days in 1926. Christie is based on a real, widely publicized event. Add to that, we spend a lot of time in her husband Archie Christie’s point of view, and frankly that’s a place no one would want to be. Christie and it’s, “Maybe don’t fuck with your wife when she invents unsolveable ways to murder people for a living.” In a lot of ways this book is a historical Gone Girl, which normally would be my jam, but I found the suspense disrupted by the fact that this is based on a real event and I already knew what happened. Genre: Historical: European, Literary Fiction, Mystery/Thriller ![]() ![]() The Magicians Hat will cast its spell on you! - Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Malcolm Mitchell is changing the world through the power of reading. Kirkus Reviews Malcolm Mitchells mission is to inspire readers. Review Quotes Praise for The Magicians Hat: Mitchell proves to have a touch of magic as an author as well as on the field. Through his advocacy and his books, Malcolm imparts the important message that every story has the potential to be a favorite. Whats a kid to do? How can Henley find a story that speaks to everything inside of him? Malcolm Mitchell, bestselling author of The Magicians Hat, pulls from his own literary triumph to deliver another hilarous and empowering picture book for readers of all abilities. But one day, he gets the scariest homework assignment in the world: find your favorite book to share with the class tomorrow. When hes supposed to be reading, he would rather do anything else. ![]() Book Synopsis From Super Bowl champion and literacy crusader Malcolm Mitchell comes an exciting new story that shows even reluctant readers that there is a book out there for everyone! Meet Henley, an all-around good kid, who hates to read. ![]() About the Book Henley hates to read, so his homework assignment to bring in his favorite book seems an impossible challenge-until his mother shows him a box of books he made himself when he was younger. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some nearly died of starvation, while others retreated in the face of tribes that attacked with poisoned arrows. In the next seven decades, scores of explorers had tried and failed to retrace Fawcett’s path. When he vanished, Fawcett and his party had been trying to uncover a lost civilization hidden in the Amazon, which Fawcett had named, simply, the City of Z. The expedition expected to find little more than bones-yet even discovering those would have been a revelation. Finally, after months of waiting, a team of Brazilian adventurers and scientists headed into the jungle, determined to solve what has been described as “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.” The group was searching for signs of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British explorer who, in 1925, had disappeared in the forest, along with his son and another companion. Rivers sank by thirty feet bogs became meadows islands turned into hills. ![]() Then the sun came out and scorched the region. Bridges were swept away, and, amid vast stretches of mud, small holes appeared where cobras and armadillos had buried themselves. In the summer of 1996, rains flooded the Amazon, rendering it virtually impenetrable. ![]() |