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Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Penelope Fitzgerald
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ASIN: 1400041252
Release Date: 2003-09-23 |
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After publishing her first novel in 1977 at the age of sixty-one, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) went on to become one of the most remarkable and highly acclaimed English writers of the last century. Each of the three novels gathered here vividly and unforgettably conjures up an entire world.
The Booker Prize-winning novel Offshore limns the marginal existence of an eccentric assortment of barge dwellers on the Thames in the early 1960s, a group of misfits who are drawn to life on the muddy river in exile from the world of the landlocked. Human Voices takes us behind the scenes at the BBC during World War II, as world-weary directors and nubile young assistants attempt to save Britain’s heritage and keep Britons calm in the face of a feared German invasion. In The Beginning of Spring, a struggling English printer living in Moscow in 1913 is abandoned by his wife and left alone to care for his three young children in the face of the impending revolution.
Fitzgerald is a genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched context, and these narrative gems are marvels of compassion, wit, and piercing insight.
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Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India. But then Harrys latest client, Dolores Duvala vision of curves with a seductive French accentstarts appearing everywhere at his side...... In a fit of rage, Rose threatens Dolores, only to be found the very next day, standing over her dead body. The newspapers rush to convict her, but can Harry and Detective Superintendent Kerridge clear her name?
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don't start the series with this one............2007-09-23
since others have summed up the storyline so well, I only want to add a few quick notes to the other reviews. First-do not start reading this mystery series with this one as you will be totally confused as the book is entirely written in the assumption that you already have read the first three in the series.
Secondly-I have to agree with several other reviwers-calling this fourth book a mystery at all is stretching it as the vast majority of the story centers on the travails of Rose's and Daisy's love lives and their many quirky misadventures.
Finally-stalwart Chesney fan that I am, I must admit this fourth book to be disappointing. Miss Chesney has several characters behaving completely out of character, and in the case of the two female leads, their propensity to get themselves into dire situations is now turning annoying.
The author doesn't seem to want the two characters to grow or learn from previous mistakes. There was several brief moments of hilarity but moreover they were diminished by overwhelming buffoonery that made me want to throttle the both of them:)
So overall I would suggest the book of fellow die hard Chesney fans but others should probably skip it or at least hold off to see if the author can redeem herself and her Edwardian Ladies in the next installment.
3.5 stars!
Mystery and Romance.......2007-09-10
A light romantic mystery in the classic sense. The heroine is a woman of independence before this was proper. Her escapades are always interesting and the endings satisfying.
Fourth in a series of comedy romantic murder mysteries.......2007-06-13
This is the fourth in a series of murder mysteries set in Britain and France in the first decade of the 20th century featuring Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer.
To date there are four books in the series, which are
Snobbery with Violence
Hasty Death
Sick of Shadows
Our Lady of Pain
The author writes romantic fiction, mostly humorous regency romances plus one or two set in the Edwardian period, under the name Marion Chesney, and mystery/detective stories such as the Agatha Raisin and Hamish MacBeth series under the name M.C. Beaton.
This Edwardian series is a something of a cross-over between the two - part romance and part murder mystery - and the books often have both names on the cover (usually something like "M.C. Beaton writing as Marion Chesney.)
The main characters in the series are:
Captain Harry Cathcart, younger son of a Baron, has left the army after being injured in the Boer war. At the start of the first book in the series he carried out a service for Lady Rose's father for which he gained a reputation as a fixer, and by the time of this fourth book he is successfully running a business as the Edwardian equivalent of a Private Investigator - though this makes some members of "Society" look down on him as being "in trade."
Lady Rose Summer, Harry's fiance and the only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Hadfield. Slightly notorious as having briefly been involved with suffragettes. Chafes at the fact that society will not allow her a useful role, and constantly looking for something more challenging to do -from working as a typist or secretary to helping the police solve murders.
Beckett - Harry's "personal gentleman" - in love with Daisy.
Daisy - Lady Rose's companion. A former chorus girl, but when Captain Cathcart recruited her to play the role of a maid with a contagious disease as one of the escapades in the first book, Lady Rose recruited her to do the job for real. Later Lady Rose promoted her from Maid to Companion. In love with Becket and wants to marry him.
Detective Superintendent Kerridge - a senior policeman of humble origins and carefully supressed radical views, reinforced by the fact that whenever he has to interview an aristocrat they always threaten to report him to the Prime Minister. In the first three books, he played Inspector Slack to Lady Rose's Miss Marple. By this one his main role is releasing Harry or Lady Rose from arrest on the frequent occasions one of them is wrongly accused of murder.
At the start of this fourth book, Lady Rose Summer is engaged to Captain Harry Cathcart for the second time. They originally agreed an engagement at the end of the second book to prevent Lady Rose's parents shipping her out to India to find a husband. The engagement was broken off and then re-established in the third book.
Although you would think that their propensity for breaking up and re-establishing engagements was a dead give-away, neither has ever admitted that they actually have feelings for each other. Lady Rose "would have sworn on a stack of bibles that she was not a jealous woman." Then a gorgeous courtesan from Paris, Mademoiselle Dolores Duval, hires Harry in his capacity as an investigator. When Harry accompanies Dolores to the theatre, Lady Rose completely loses her temper, and the book loses any claim to authenticity as a picture of Edwardian Society. She snaps at Mademoiselle Duval an insult which a titled lady of that time would never have heard of and the threat to "leave my fiance alone ... or I'll kill you."
Unfortunately the following morning Lady Rose discovers Dolores Duval's murdered body - and is then arrested for the murder when the cleaning lady finds Rose standing over the body with a gun in her hand.
This starts a madcap series of scrapes which range from London to Oxford Paris to Scotland, and include several more murders, Lady Rose and Daisy spending some time under the supervision of a group of Anglican Benedictine nuns who are as ascetic and severe as the strictest Catholic ones, and with romances, engagements and marriages made, sundered, and on again.
Despite my previous comparison with Miss Marple, this is not in the same league as Agatha Christie as a detective story, and neither is it in the same league as Jane Austen as a romance. Nor, indeed, is it one of the author's best books. When she is really on form, M.C. Beaton/Marion Chesney is capable of good characterisation and flashes of delightful humour. However apart from the absurd parody of convent life, and the ironic trick by which Lady Rose's parents are persuaded to allow her to leave the convent, there isn't much good humour in this book, and non-stop action becomes a substitute for character development.
Worth reading if you enjoyed the other books in the series and want to know what happens next, or if you are looking for a mildly entertaining light read. Otherwise, give it a miss.
happy reader.......2007-03-09
A fun, quick read. I couldn't wait to see what happened with Harry and Lady Rose.
Fluffy, Fun, and Fascinating.......2006-06-03
Marion Chesney (terrific cozy author M.C. Beaton) knows how to write one heck of an enjoyable read - IF you like historical cozies where the author has actually done solid, serious research about the era.
Edwardian debutante Lady Rose Summer and her wise-cracking sidekick Daisy don't mean to keep stumbling into disreputable adventures, but they certainly add a zip to life; and after all, why should private detective Captain Harry Cathcart be the only one to have adventures?!?! Then calamity strikes! When Harry's newest client, Dolores Duval, a gorgeous French lady "of reputation" causes Rose to feel tremors of jealousy our heroine ultimately loses her head and actually threatens to kill Dolores only to be discovered standing next to Dolores' dead body the very next day! Her strait-laced parents are horrified and determinedly pack Rose and Daisy off to a strict convent for a year to learn how to behave.
But then another murder occurs and fingers again point to Rose . . .
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Roaming the known and unknown oceans, one man hopes to defeat once and for all the private demon within him-a power that is coming ever closer to destroying everything he holds dear.
An unusual and solidly imagined fantasy world. (Vector)
Entertaining...Intelligent...Plenty of action and an original approach. (Infinity)
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Great Series.......2006-04-18
I loved this series. It's interesting, funny, and, most important, worthy of rereading. I wish she'd write more.
Not Bad... Three and a half.......2004-07-06
Ok, This wasnt a bad book, and the ending tied in really well with the first two books. Bradley must have had it all worked out ahead of time and that is refreshing to see in the world of fantasy where many people just write to put out another volume...Cough *Robert Jordan... Anyhow my problem with this book is that it was 20 years after Scions Lady and when i bought the book i was assuming TIg would have some adventures in the interim. I dont like books that leap far into the future...some of the majic always gets left behind. If you read the first two books then by all means oyu have to read this one as well to see how Tig (and his son) resovle the issue of the lady pain...
3 and a half stars.... definatly worth a read...
Why, Why Does it Have to End?.......2004-02-25
If you haven't read Lady in Gil, read it. Then read Scion's Lady. Then you won't need to read any of these reviews, because you'll know how wonderful this series is, and you'll be scrambling to get a copy of Lady Pain as quickly as possible so you can finish the tale.
This is the darkest of the three, but no less wonderful. It's actually the book that convinced me to try the first--I saw this for sale, it looked very engaging, but realising it was the third in the series I found Lady in Gil and sat down to read it, and seem to remember finishing it that evening as it was too wonderful for words.
I love Connie Willis (well, her better work, at least), and I love Mervyn Peake. I love Jane Austen, and I love Robertson Davies, and I love Rebecca Bradley. We must have more from her. Read these books and you'll agree!
Note: a 3 star ranking from me is actually pretty good; I reserve 4 stars for tremendously good works, and 5 only for the rare few that are or ought to be classic; unfortunately most books published are 2 or less.
An enjoyable read.......2003-09-13
The characters are what I like most about this series. This third book in the trilogy is pretty good. The pace is good and the setting imaginative. Pretty much the story of Tig's son and we see the story through his eyes. I liked the ending and it made sense within the context of the other two books.
A satisfying conclusion.......2002-05-31
I really enjoyed this book. Bradley's characters are engaging, and the story moves along at a good pace. The imaginative setting is brought to life with economy and liveliness. Set twenty years after Scion's Lady, Tigrallef, accompanied by his family and friends, is still wandering the world, seeking a way to banish the Harashil. Facing a dead end in their quest, they travel to Gil, Tig's ancestral home - and doing so sets off a series of unforeseen and deadly dangerous events.
I did wish more time could have been devoted to Shree, Calla, and Chasco in this book, but I certainly did not feel short-changed by the new characters that appeared: Mallinna the beautiful memorian, Jonno the poetry-writing guardsman, and Tig's daughter Katla. The story is narrated by Vero, Tig's son, and Bradley conveys his devotion to duty, his growing despair, and his wish for something new in his life wonderfully. It was also good to see Tig's combination of intelligence and innocent stupidity through another's eyes.
What is particularly good about this book is that Bradley clearly worked out the whole story before she even wrote Lady in Gil. There is no sense that this book was written out of laziness or obligation, like so many fantasy series. It forms a coherent whole with the previous two books, and the ending is both appropriate, given all that has gone before, and satisfying. Lady Pain is a fascinating and truly enjoyable book. Make sure you read Bradley's previous books first so you appreciate it to the full.
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Lady Pain
Manufacturer: Gollancz
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Lady Pain
Rebecca Bradley
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Our Lady of Pain
John Blackburn
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Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture
Jennifer Travis
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ASIN: 0807829749
Release Date: 2006-02-23 |
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The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural history of emotions.
From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Travis traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse. She argues that injury became a comfortable vocabulary--particularly among white middle-class men--through which to articulate and to claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates through readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Travis concludes by linking this history to twenty-first-century preoccupations with "pain-centered politics," which, she cautions, too often focuses only on women and racial minorities.
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Lady of pain,: A comedy of youth in one act,
Edith Barnard Delano
Manufacturer: W.H. Baker Co
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The Faceless Man
Jack Vance
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Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Durdane
Customer Reviews:
The Day Durdane Stood Still.......2005-05-23
Gastel Etzwane is a little more clueless and weak than the protags of the Planet of Adventure and Demon Princes series. Yet this work has the trademark weirdness of settings--the 50-odd cantons of Shant--that are even better developed than Tschai, and Gastel is only weak because he is clueless. The concept of the faceless man, the inflexible (and because faceless, inhuman) upholder of never-changing "values" agreed upon by the citizens of Shant in some long-ago convention as a way to keep them from destroying their own society, is not far off from the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The Durdane trilogy is the most consistent of Vance's series, strong to the end. He explores the theme of freedom, as always, but also the value of knowledge--it isn't always power, after all!
An alternate and actually more common title for this work is _The Anome_.
the Faceless Man -.......2005-02-16
The Faceless Man, also known as Anome or Durdane, is like a typical Vance novel in that it features a strapping young adventurer pitting wit and candor against opposing forces in exotic and debaucherous locales.
Vance revels in describing the cultural customs and mores of the characters that people his work. The Faceless Man, the first in the Durdane trilogy, is no exception. While the central chacter Etzwane does not stick out among the protagonists of Vance's many novels, music is a central theme of the book and Vance, a musician, excels in his descriptions of alien musical interludes and compositions.
I work in a library in Florida, and this book was very hard to find. We had to request it from a Library in Omaha Nebraska. Vance's work is elusive and unknown but highly suggested for those that enjoy Science Fiction with a more fantastic element.
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- Excellent, Brilliantly Written.
- A real eye-opener
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My Life on the Street: Memoirs of a Faceless Man
Joe Homeless
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The savage memoir of one of the world's homeless, faceless men.
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Excellent, Brilliantly Written........1999-06-04
I found this book fascinating to read. I am a former homeless person, myself having spent two years on the streets.
A real eye-opener.......1998-07-02
This book gave me a real insight into the world of the homeless and dramatically altered my perspective on exactly who these people are and how they have arrived at their situation. Before reading this book, I assumed that 99% of all homeless people were either drug addicts, alcoholics, or people with mental problems. Several ideas here really touched home. Living in DC for most of my life, I have been constantly surrounded by homeless people, and have noticed that each individual seems to come and go at an extraordinarily rapid rate. Joe Homeless explained that this is because most are dead within one to two years.
A few questions remain unanswered by the author, however, that continue to burn in my mind. Why do homeless people not on drugs and who are mentally stable remain in the cities. It seems that it would be easy to find work in a McDonalds or related place if given one new pair of clothes and a brief opportunity to clean themselves. Also, the author continually stated that he only needed a place to get himself together for a few days before he could get back on his feet again. Yet, when he finally does recieve a welfare check and this opportunity, he does not find a job. Why not? It seems that there are plenty of temporary or full time positions for untrained workers. Perhaps this did not apply in the 1970s. I hope that the author has the opportunity to read this response and has the opportunity to reply. I really don't expect that many other people have read this socially important work.
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Apollinaire and the Faceless Man: The Creation and Evolution of a Modern Motif
Willard Eugene Bohn
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Batman #542 : Murdicide (Faceless - DC Comics)
Doug Moench
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The Faceless Man
Jack Vance
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The Faceless Man
Trisha Lynn
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Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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Detective Jane Johnson and Detective John Smith, from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Department, were called to a crime scene where a man was lying in the ditch without a face. Forensic Pathologist Doctor Troy Wallace, from The Amery County Morgue, took the body back to the morgue to get his fingerprints. After identifying him, they ran him through "Missing Persons" and found that he was reported missing by his mother and stepfather.
They interviewed his family and his friends. The main suspect was his best friend, who was caught by John Doe #968 in a sexual position with his girlfriend, and proceeded to tell his wife. Was it his best friend, or was it someone closer to our John Doe #968? Was it more than one person?
The case is solved after three young ladies came forward with a story that is unbelievable.
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The faceless man
Carter Wick
Manufacturer: Saturday Review Press
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ASIN: 0841503532 |
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VALUE! More than 500 tested recipes250+ main dishesall from a trusted brand and guaranteed to satisfy.
Popular, quick-to-fix recipes use up to five common, readily available ingredients.
Recipes for appetizers, beverages, salads, main dishes, sauces, sides, and desserts.
Special chapter features fun favorites just for kids.
Customer Reviews:
Absolutely perfect!.......2006-12-19
As a college student, the thought of purchasing several ingredients just to put something interesting on the table for dinner is certainly daunting. This book is absolutely perfect for that very reason. 500 Five Ingredient Recipes is, as the title states, a list of 500 dishes that require five (or less) ingredients! Obviously, you can add your own little herbs and such to spruce it up, but even on their own the recipes are delicious and diverse. What's more, the book is filled with recipes for things a person would ACTUALLY eat (I seem to have a bit of a knack for picking up cookbooks filled with weird sounding food that require ingredients I can't even pronounce!). There is even a section for Kids! The recipes are so clear and easy to follow that even my husband has no trouble using it!
This is definitely a must-have for any amateur chef who prefers the taste of a home-cooked meal.
Another Better Homes and Gardens winner.......2002-11-17
Produced by the Better Homes and Gardens and tested through their test kitchens "500 Five Ingredient Recipes" is a wonderful collection of no fuss recipes. Don't make the mistake of thinking these are necessarily fast recipes. While some take only a few minutes to prepare others such as the "Easy Elegant Beef Roast" can take several hours to prepare. The purpose of the book is exactly as the title states - each recipe takes only five ingredients.
If you are tired of recipes that requires so many ingredients that the clean up time is longer than the preparation time then this is the book for you. No corners are cut on these recipes, they are absolutely delicious, just what you would expect from Better Homes and Gardens.
It contains the typical divisions for a cookbook - appetizers, beverages, salads, main dishes, sauces, sides, and desserts. In addition it has a section of recipes just for children and a section on meatless main dishes.
Make sure to try the Stuffed mushrooms in Phyllo or the German style beef roast. They are both excellent. Although I really liked the cookbook and it definitely has its place in the library of anyone who loves to cook, there are two things that I did not like. First, is that it is not spiral bound and so does not lie flat so you can reference while cooking (although I understand that they do have a spiral bound version available - definitely get the spiral bound if you can find it). Secondly, I found the cooking times to be deceptive. You should always read the instructions in detail if preparation time is an issue. For example, the "Easy Elegant Beef Roast" is listed with 15 minutes preparation time and one and three quarters of an hour roasting time. If you read the roasting instructions they state that one and three quarters to two and a quarter hour for medium rare and two and a quarter to two and three quarters of an hour for medium. The preparation time listed under the recipe name should not have the minimum time but either an average time or a time range such as "one and three quarters to two and three quarters of an hour depending on taste preference" or something similar. For this cookbook just keep in mind that the roasting, cooking, baking, etc. times are the minimum times.
Still, a highly recommended read and a real asset to any cookbook collection.
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