Due to her chronic sickness, she spent the majority of her time with her mother, a tireless storyteller, from whom she learned many of the Celtic and Saxon legends that she would later expand into works of historical fiction. She contracted Still's Disease when she was very young and was confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. She once commented that she wrote "for children of all ages from nine to ninety."īorn in West Clandon, Surrey, Sutcliff spent her early youth in Malta and other naval bases where her father was stationed as a naval officer. Although primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults. Rosemary Sutcliff, CBE was a British novelist, best known as a writer of highly acclaimed historical fiction.
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Ja, die in gebed gevouwen handen verzinnebeelden fraai de mystieke omhelzing van het ongrijpbare, als de verliefde armen in het luchtledige grijpen omdat de realiteit ontglipt en er niemand is. Jonge handen zijn gemaakt voor liefkozingen en de mantel der liefde, het is jammer ze te vroeg samen te vouwen. Oude handen verdorren wat zij strelen, dunkt me, maar ze hebben hun eigen schoonheid wanneer ze zich vouwen in gebed. Ik heb het gevoel dat ik ook hierin het meest tot onthouding gebracht word door redenen van esthetische aard. En die spijt krijgt dan zelfs de donkere kleur van wroeging. Men heeft hierin geen spijt van wat men heeft gedaan, maar van wat men niet heeft gedaan en zou hebben kunnen doen. This text refers to the paperback edition. Het is waarschijnlijk gemakkelijker af te zien van wat men heeft gekend dan van datgene waarover men fantaseert. André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951) fue un escritor francés, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1947. Te kuise jongelingsjaren leiden tot liederlijke ouderdom. Wat is het ergst van al dit 'slecht want strijdig met de natuur'? Jong zijn en je genot ontzeggen of oud zijn en het nog steeds zoeken? Er zijn zekere geneugten van het vlees die het ouder wordende lichaam steeds vergeefser najaagt als het er zich in zijn jeugd niet aan bedronken heeft. “Wat ik 'vermoeidheid' noem is ouderdom, en daarvoor bestaat geen rust behalve de dood. Suddenly caught in a dubious plot involving Soviet spies, Hong Kong’s criminal underground, and the hostile takeover of his company, Dunross holds nothing back in the fight for the Noble House.Įspionage, mayhem, and high-stakes betrayals make Noble House Clavell’s most prolific and imaginatively crafted narrative in the Asian Saga. But his rival, Quillan Gornt, has other plans. The main character Ian Dunross Struan is a direct descendant of the legendary founder of the noble house Dirk Struan and the jumping genes really hit him. And he’ll do whatever it takes-including striking a hard-fought deal with an American millionaire. Ian Dunross, the current tai-pan of the illustrious yet financially troubled Struan empire, is racing to undo the damage his predecessor left behind and to once again stand on stable ground. Taking place over the course of an eventful week in 1963 Hong Kong, James Clavell’s Noble House is a masterfully woven novel of true suspense. Based on the novel Noble House by James Clavell, it features a large cast headlined by Pierce Brosnan as business tycoon Ian Dunross and was directed by Gary Nelson. The epic novel of espionage, betrayal and turbulence in 1960s Hong Kong by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell Noble House is an American television miniseries that was produced and broadcast by NBC in 1988. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are - whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. The main MCs, Gabe, Charlie, and Sonya, and in the beginning also Kimberley. I definitely loved those interludes and loved seeing how things got more and more scary in the town. As the time goes on and things get more and more harried we see some more of the town people. We have a group of friends as our MCs, but we also get to see some interludes in which we see some other characters. It definitely made everything even scarier~ There are many other scenes that had this and I just love it when authors are able to do this. Watching everything, helpless to do anything. With the plane crash, really, the time stood still for these kids but it felt the same way for me. The author wrote this book so so good, I mean, at points it felt like I wasn’t reading… I was actually there. I am going to try to write a review but BOY I got so many feels about this epic book. I am always looking around for spooky and scary horror and I definitely got my fill with this AMAZING book! It was a bit of a slow start at first, getting to know the characters, the town, but quite soon things just went into a maelstrom of everything and I just couldn’t, wouldn’t put the book down. I received this book from the publisher/Xpresso Tour Hosts in exchange of an honest review. Humankind is set to perish, and not even the horsemen can stop Death from fulfilling his final task. But Death’s attraction to her is undeniable, and try though she might, Lazarus cannot stay away from that ancient, beautiful being and his dark embrace. A hopeless task, made all the worse by the bad blood between her and Thanatos. When Lazarus crosses paths with the three other horsemen, an unthinkable situation leads to a terrible deal: seduce Death, save the world. And the longer she tries to stop him from his killing spree, the stronger the desire becomes. Nor can he ignore the unsettling desire he has for her. The one soul he cannot pry free from her flesh. She is the one soul Death doesn’t recognize. But Lazarus has her own extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed-not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself. The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond’s town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is a woman left alive and standing. And then, of course, there’s the one I’m all too familiar with. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth–Pestilence, War, Famine, Death–four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review. Happy Hour is a novel about getting by and looking great in a system that wants you to do neither. Through it all, Isa’s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old, and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. Isa, the twenty-one-year-old Canadian diarist-narrator of this effervescent début, arrives in New York with her best friend, Gala, intent on a. Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. A few years later, Bruce's parents were being contacted by the Hong Kong police so often for fighting, they said if he gets caught one more time, he's going to jail. One day he wondered what would happen if he was caught without his gang, and his parents took him to Yip Man, a well known Wing Chun instructor in Hong Kong. Because if you can't fight well, it could get you killed. I remember talking to his family when we were filming Enter the Dragon in Hong Kong, and they said Bruce would sometimes come home all bloody, and they thought he was going to die, only to find out the blood came from the guy he had just beat up! Oh, Bruce lost his share of fights too, and this is one reason he became so intent on taking up a martial art. He used to be in a gang, so he was quite used to fighting. He fought constantly as a teenager in Hong Kong. Interviewer: How did he train to be such a competent fighter?īob Wall: "You have got to remember where Bruce came from. Dead wrong! Many people have already had found out the hard way just how wrong they were!" I know alot of people think he was only good on the screen but they are wrong. Interviewer: We know Bruce was an excellent screen fighter, but he could REALLY fight?īob Wall: "Let's get something straight, Bruce Lee was the real deal. Are they doomed from the start or destined for a happily-ever-after?Īlso includes the bonus novella Once Upon a Christmas Eve from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Hoyt! She's a minister's daughter who must turn a marriage of desperation into a proper ducal union. He's a wealthy gutter rat out for vengeance. Neither thinks they'll actually have a future together. Believing his days are numbered, Quinn offers her marriage as a way to guarantee her independence and provide for her child. Jane Winston, widowed and pregnant, crosses paths with Quinn while her father is preaching to the prisoners. Quinn has fought his way up from the worst slums, and now he's ready to use every dirty trick he knows to find the enemy who schemed against him. The next, he's declared the long-lost heir to a dukedom. One minute, London banker Quinn Wentworth is facing execution. Meet the highly unconventional Wentworth family in this charming USA Todaybestseller with a Cinderella twist, perfect for fans of Mary Balogh. |