Original unclipped dust wrapper very smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Externally, excellent with light shelf wear only. With his father dying, Jim is forced from the Benbow with his mother and his friend Groucho Marx to search for the buried treasure. A comic novel spoof of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jim Hawkins has met a rum-addicted sailor known only as "Captain", who leaves Jim a treasure map upon his death. Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan, 2000. A humorous parody of the 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell, written from the point to view of Black Beauty, revealing what it's like to be a horse. Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan, 1996. The book spans the period from Britain's declaration of war on Germany to when Milligan lands in Algeria as a part of the Allied liberation of Africa. The first volume of Milligan's war memoirs. Illustrated with many drawings and photographs throughout. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, 1973. Written by Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan, an Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright. Three volumes of work by Irish actor, writer, comedian, poet, and playwright, Spike Milligan.
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So this is going to be a tricky review to write, because opinions have really diverged on this book. Honest, refreshing and a nicely constructed narrative. It's by no means a bad collection though, just that I think it would have worked better as a shorter book with only the standout works, because when it's good, it's really great. I found that quite a few of the poems about how wonderful her new partner is were directly at odds with the title of the book, so I didn't enjoy these as much. Sadly though, my enthusiasm waned through the three other sections. The highlight for me was “that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years.” I really connected with the Princess section of this a lot, I thought the majority of poems here were heartbreaking and emotional and they brought out a lot of things for me that clearly weren't repressed as deeply as I thought they were. I don't think the format always completely worked, it was sometimes hard to tell if the italics at the end of most of the works were the title, or part of the poem, or both and this was wonderful in parts but jarring in others. This was a very quick read, the poems were mostly much shorter than I was expecting, sometimes just a handful of words on the page. Her books include Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (1984), and Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (1999), and she has published numerous articles on Milton and other English renaissance poets. Using Luke 4 as a reference in Paradise Regained, Milton depicts the interaction, dialogue. Her doctorate is from Columbia University and she has taught at the University of Hawaii, Franklin & Marshall College, and at Brown University, where she maintains an affiliation. In Paradise Regained, Milton emphasizes the human elment of hunger, both spiritual and physical. Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Susanne Woods is a Provost nad Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and Chair of the professional Northeast Milton Seminar. About Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems. He died in 1674.Ĭhristopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University and most recently author of Dylans Visions of Sin. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. By utilizing the same setting for both themes he kept an already lengthy novel from becoming a weighty tome. There are two major themes that Herbert explores through the novel: ecology and religion. Dune is easily one of the primary masterpieces of science fiction despite being a dense, somewhat difficult book for the average reader. From examining Byzantine political gambits to the human penchant for hero worship, Herbert using a far-flung future setting to examine the best and worst aspects of human nature. To borrow a line from a film adaptation of this novel: “When politics and religion ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.” Frank Herbert’s Dune is easily one of the most layered works of fiction produced during the twentieth century. 'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources, it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War. All scholars of the First World War owe Norman Stone an enormous debt of gratitude for his 1975 work, The Eastern Front, 1914-1917, which remains in many. Download The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone in PDF EPUB format complete free. 'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources, it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War. One book quickly became a Trilogy with all books over 600 A5 pages of reading excitement.Note from Author 10 August 2017WARNING: This is an Autobiography of my lives. It took quite a while for her to get back to functionality, with healing, physiotherapy and two small children to contend with (her baby was seven weeks old when the accident occurred.) In 2008, after the scarring finally started to heal with the products her husband had developed for her, he gave her a laptop, encouraging her to stop saying that she would one day like to write a book and actually do it. She twice went into cardiac arrest and was resuscitated by the emergency personnel. About H Gibson, Author of The Chronicles of Han Storm: In 2004 the Author of Chronicles of Han Storm was caught up in a cooking oil explosion, sustaining third degree burns to 35% of her body including her face and both hands. Description: Distributor of Han Storm books: available in Paperback, ePDF, ePUB and Kindle.MOBI direct from author. She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, a BA in Graphic Design from St Martin's and an MA in Narrative Illustration from Brighton. She was convinced that there were dragons living on this island, and has been fascinated by dragons ever since. A Cressida Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. How to Train Your Dragon is now published in over 30 languages. The unique blend of child centred humour and sublime prose made Hiccup an instant hit. Cressida has written and illustrated eight books in the popular Hiccup series. Cressida loves illustrating her own work, but also loves writing books for other people to illustrate as the end result can be so unexpected and inspiring. Cressida Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. With the collapse of Earth society and internecine battles among the metanationals, the Martian settlers liberate their cities and declare their planet free. When they're not traveling, these colonists contemplate the history of which they have been a part and which they can only partially recall as a result of their longevity treatments. They travel endlessly over every inch of Mars-no mean feat, since most of the First Hundred are criminals wanted for their roles in the failed revolt of 2061-with each kilometer and each group of settlers they meet described in laborious detail. As the surface of Mars warms and is seeded with genetically altered plants, the settlers await Earth's self-destruction, which they hope will give them a chance to claim their independence. Debate among the settlers-some native-born, some the surviving members of the First Hundred-is divided between the minimalist areoformists, who have come to love Mars in all its harshness, and the terraformists, who want to replicate Earth. The sequel to Red Mars details an early 22nd-century Mars controlled by Earth's metanationals, gigantic corporations intent on exploiting Mars. One day, as Theo mulls her fate in her grandfather’s art studio, a mouse runs up her leg, causing her to spill a bottle of rubbing alcohol on one of Jack’s paintings. The family funds in Jack’s money jar are rapidly dwindling, with only $384 left, leaving Theo to subsist on their chickens’ eggs and beets from the garden. She’s just in time to hear his dying words, “Look under the egg,” with instructions to also look for a letter and a treasure.Ī treasure is urgently needed, because Theo lives in a 200-year-old Manhattan townhouse with her unstable (but pleasant) mother, who spends her hours sipping expensive tea and working on a math dissertation that’s been unfinished for years. Under the Egg starts out with a horrific bang: 13-year-old Theodora Tenpenny sees that her beloved grandfather Jack has just been struck by a cab. I'm quite used to Well's elaborate world-building, but this felt awkward. Two, I thought the narrative confusing at first. But would the apathetic Murderbot really have named a mildly intrusive artificial intelligence it just met an 'asshole?' It set the wrong tone and in some ways, the character of Murderbot backslid to be a socially inept human, not a killing machine trying to create behavior patterns. One, I felt Murderbot had become more colloquial in its speech without accompanying change in comfort level with others. Why not five stars, you wonder? I do enjoy the character of Murderbot a great deal, but found myself with some sticky points on my first read-through. It was an enjoyable read, but suffered from a few issues. Though the beginning felt a bit awkward, I remained confident that Wells would end up somewhere interesting. I read quickly, finishing in one sitting. After its thrilling adventures on its last expedition as a SecUnit, I was curious to see what 'Bot would do with freedom. It was with anticipation of pleasure that I picked up the second installment in the Murderbot series. I could already feel my performance capacity dropping." Interacting meant talking, and eye contact. I had imagined it as taking place from a distance, or in the spaces of a crowded transit ring. I would have to interact with humans as an augmented human. |