![]() This approach is illustrated by his volumes of stories and his novels Zmeura de cîmpie ("Raspberry of the Field"), Tratament fabulatoriu ("Confambulatory Treatment"), and by Femeia în roșu ("The Woman in Red"), a collaborative fiction piece written together with Adriana Babeți and Mircea Mihăieș. The author of experimental prose, mixing elements of conventional narratives with autofiction, textuality, intertextuality and, in some cases, fantasy, he placed his work at the meeting point between Postmodernism and a minimalist form of Neorealism. ![]() Mircea Nedelciu ( Romanian pronunciation: Novem– July 12, 1999) was a Romanian short-story writer, novelist, essayist and literary critic, one of the leading exponents of the Optzeciști generation in Romanian letters. Optzeciști, Postmodernism, Neorealism, Minimalism Novelist, short story writer, journalist, librarianĪutobiography, autofiction, Bildungsroman, collaborative fiction, docudrama, dystopia, erotic literature, essay, fantasy, historical novel, metafiction, satire, science fiction ![]() Fundulea, Călărași County, Romanian People's Republic ![]()
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![]() It’s Kingsolver’s 17th novel in some three decades, and in writing it, she says she wanted to counter some of the condescension and downright snobbery directed at the region in which she was born and still lives, an area whose people, she believes, have been exploited for generations, most recently by pharmaceutical companies who targeted Appalachian residents and created the current opioid crisis. Kingsolver conceived the idea while on a visit to Dickens’s historic seaside English retreat and actually started writing Demon Copperhead at Dickens’s own desk. Demon Copperhead re-envisions the Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield, setting it in modern-day Appalachia. ![]() ![]() Soon the scandal and darkness both Beatrix and Thomas fear comes to light, compelling them to finally face their demons-and potentially driving them apart forever. ![]() She becomes the toast of the Season until her penchant for pilfering pretty things threatens to expose the illicit past she needs desperately to remain hidden. Their arrangement grows more complicated under the force of a scorching mutual attraction.Ībandoned by her father-a duke-after the death of her mother-his beloved mistress-Beatrix Linley has fought to become a daughter he could be proud of, that he would regret leaving. From USA Today Bestselling author Darcy Burke, your next Regency obsession: The Pretenders Set in Burke’s popular world of The Untouchables, indulge in the saga of a trio of siblings who excel at being something they’re not. But when a woman sees what happened, he agrees to accept her help to disguise the facts in exchange for not divulging her suspicious behavior. Rumors abound that his wife's death may not have been an accident and given the troubling secrets Thomas keeps buried, even he isn't entirely sure. Tricked into marriage five years ago, Thomas Devereaux, Lord Rockbourne is suddenly a widower. ![]() Can a dauntless Bow Street Runner, a devastated viscount, and a disillusioned Society miss unravel their secrets? From USA Today Bestselling author Darcy Burke, your next Regency obsession: The Pretenders! Set in Burke's popular world of The Untouchables, indulge in the saga of a trio of siblings who excel at being something they're not. ![]() ![]() Then one day, a mysterious dying man arrives who seems to see past her disguise and hires her to work at the island estate he shares with his wife, Lady Alicia. But Corinna feels freer in her dank cellar quarters than in the outside world. ![]() Rather than succumb to her fate of becoming a servant girl, she reinvents herself as a boy named Corin and secures a position as ""Folk Keeper."" Her job is dangerous: she must protect the mainland village of Rhysbridge against the harmful pranks of the Folk, devilish underground creatures who thrive in darkness. ![]() Corinna Stonewall, who earned her name for her stubbornness, is at odds with a hierarchical society filled with lords and ladies. Billingsley (Well Wished) imagines a fascinating subterranean world and infuses a strong feminist theme into this poetically wrought tale featuring a 15-year-old orphan. ![]() ![]() Quit The Killing And Trust In God by Di0s de Los Muertos my many #Team666's ain't evil and never were yet are being destroyed daily as men, women, spirits, aliens, and governments seek power greater than "he who tests the purity of gold with fire oh mighty golly of yours". none of you give a fuck about persons and let earth get this fucked up before me and my independent spirits that weren't in your piece of garbage bible had to save the Earth. Fuck you God the Spirit, The Holy Spirit, and god the Father. ![]() We are extremely pissed off at those with control issues unlike Brian Lee Weekes. ![]() This is a book written by I, Brian Lee Weekes, after many spirits informed me of the wierd stuff and potentially the apocalypse that was taking place amongst us. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. ![]() ![]() ![]() The page references given after quotations relate to the 1981 Penguin edition of the novel. For his bravery and boldness, Nostromo climbed the ranks to become the official point man for everyone in Sulaco. ![]() All these features can be brought together by the kind of analysis we have been conducting in this book. Nostromo, whose real name is Giovanni Battista Fidanza, is an expat who became the foreman of the Oceanic Steam and Navigation team (O.S.N.), caretakers who oversee the Sulaco shoreline. Nostromo is something of an adventure story, partly a political novel it has elements of romance, and it explores philosophical questions. For example, by presenting events in a complicated time sequence, which we have to work hard at to understand, Conrad makes us see things in different ways, from diverse points of view. Conrad presents ideas in an elusive way, and in picking our way through them we broaden our own minds. ![]() Many years later, returning to the book, I realised that the excitement comes partly from the difficulty. I also felt that frustration we experience when we know something exciting and important is happening, but cannot quite grasp it. When I first read it, as an ordinary reader - before I eventually became a mature student - I found it totally confusing. Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of 'Costaguana'. ![]() Nostromo was Conrad’s first long novel to gain serious critical acclaim. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also has written extensively on late Imperial Russia, the 1917 Revolution and the Romanov family. She lives in the West Country, and has Helen Rappaport is a historian specialising in the Victorian period, with a particular interest in Queen Victoria and the Jamaican healer and caregiver, Mary Seacole. She is also a member of the Royal Historical Society, the Genealogical Society, the Society of Authors and the Victorian Society. In 2017 she was awarded an honorary D.Litt by Leeds for her services to history. Her passion for Russian came from a Russian Special Studies BA degree course at Leeds University. Her love of all things Victorian springs from her childhood growing up near the River Medway where Charles Dickens lived and worked. Helen Rappaport is a historian specialising in the Victorian period, with a particular interest in Queen Victoria and the Jamaican healer and caregiver, Mary Seacole. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alone in the world and in great need of work, she accepts. North Carolina, 1940:Īnna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to be free, she accepts. ![]() Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately. Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. ![]() "A novel about art and ippingly told.pulls readers toward a shocking conclusion."- People magazine, Best New Books North Carolina, 2018: From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and one woman's quest to find the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() " scholarship, style and quality of argument should give it a place on the shelves of any investigator of the environment."- International Journal of Environmental Studies "Merchant has the gift of being able to make plain dirt interesting."- American Historical Review Merchant's work makes a significant contribution not only in enriching the field but also in stimulating further work."- The Journal of American History "A fresh approach to American environmental history. ![]() Merchant argues that past ways of relating to the land could become an inspiration for renewing resources and achieving sustainability in the future. In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twenty-first-century globalization and climate change. In Ecological Revolutions, Carolyn Merchant analyzes these two major transformations in the New England environment between 16. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. ![]() With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Back for the first time in twenty years, she almost wishes she hadn't come, the picturesque town harboring painful memories from her past. The other guest is Abby Kincaid, who has returned to Cedar Cove to attend her brother's wedding. But a long-lost acquaintance from Joshua's high school days proves to him that forgiveness is never out of reach and love can bloom even where it's least expected. The two have never seen eye to eye, and Joshua has little hope that they can reconcile their differences. Her first guest is Joshua Weaver, who has come home to care for his ailing stepfather. Yet the inn holds more surprises than Jo Marie can imagine. ![]() Coping with the death of her husband, she purchases a local bed-and-breakfast-the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn-ready to begin her life anew. Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a sense of peace and a fresh start. Book Synopsis From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Debbie Macomber comes a heartwarming new series based in the Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Cove, where a charming cast of characters finds love, forgiveness, and renewal behind the doors of the cozy Rose Harbor Inn. ![]() |