![]() ![]() Verse is used to compensate for a perceived physical deformity in Rostand’s drama, and for the intolerable silence of the oppressed in the art form’s black roots.Ĭertainly, Edwin Morgan thought so in his racy Glaswegian-accented version for Communicado in the early 1990s. ![]() You could well argue that since its emergence, the play has been destined to be set in a world of rap. ![]() Derek Jacobi and Gerard Depardieu have excelled, the former on stage, twanging the heartstrings as one of nature’s great go-betweens – swordsman and virtuoso, bearing a rapier wit in more senses than one – the latter on screen, putting a real sense of the outsize into Cyrano’s verbal rodomontade and urgent desire for rhinoplasty. Edmond Rostand’s play about the eponymous and nasally over-endowed poet has been endlessly revived and recycled since its premiere in 1897. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And sometimes China’s strategy beats America’s. ![]() In response, China has accelerated its own efforts to develop its technological industry and reduce its dependence on external imports.Īccording to Dan Wang, a technology expert and visiting scholar at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, China’s tech competitiveness is grounded in manufacturing capabilities. U.S.-led sanctions have imposed unprecedented limits on Beijing’s access to advanced computing c. Over the last few years, the United States has moved to limit China’s technological rise. ![]() Only FP subscribers can submit questions for FP Live interviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her fiction writing “career” began in elementary school when she and a close friend wrote and shared silly stories. Will God’s mercy shine a beacon in the fog of despair and prove sufficient to heal their souls?Īmy Clipston has been writing for as long as she can remember. Can he ever reveal where he was on the day her life derailed? Or will his secret rob them of the second chance at love they both want? Now, as Veronica’s heart thaws, Jason can’t bring himself to tell her he was there when Seth died. ![]() and it’s for more than the raspberry pies. Nonetheless, Jason soon finds himself visiting Veronica’s bake stand every week. So when he seeks out the grieving fiancée to convey his condolences, the last thing he expects-or wants-is to fall in love. ![]() Jason Huyard was with Seth when he lost his life-a memory that haunts him still. Yet when she discovers a batch of forgotten recipes and opens a bake stand to sell her Mammi’s raspberry pies, Veronica picks up a regular customer who gives her heart pause. When an accident on the job steals Seth away from her, a heartbroken Veronica is certain she will never love-or be loved-again. Seth Lapp is kind, hardworking, and handsome-but most importantly, he loves Veronica. Veronica Fisher knows how lucky she is to be marrying her best friend. After losing her fiancé in a tragic accident, Veronica Fisher finds solace in the old recipes stored in her mother’s hope chest-and in a special visitor who comes to her bake stand to purchase her old-fashioned raspberry pies. ![]() ![]() Story mirrors our life - to a point - spoilers And families with secrets don't get to keep them forever. And it's about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts children grow but not always according to plan. Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is an audiobook about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. But soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Kids go through phases, after all, and make-believe is fun. ![]() When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect.īut Claude is not like his brothers. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. This is how children change.and then change the world. This is how a family lives happily ever after.until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how a family keeps a secret.and how that secret ends up keeping them. ![]() ![]() I can’t wait for you to listen to it!" x Reese As a mother, this story absolutely tore at my heartstrings. It's a story about family: childhood, parenthood, and the sometimes-heartbreaking decisions that come with it. ![]() This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel has done just that. “Every once in a while, I discover a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected. ![]() ![]() This the Maude translation which is the only one personally approved by Tolstoy This is Tolstoy’s epic love story which will stay with you forever. ![]() “A sexy and engrossing read, this book tells the tale of one of the most enthralling love affairs in the history of literature” Oprah’s Book ClubĪNNA KARENINA is one of the greatest novels ever written, presented in a beautiful edition specially designed for kindle. “What stuck with me about the novel was that fated love affair where that most beautiful of women, Anna Karenina, is driven by passion into the arms of that most engaging of heroes, Vronsky.” Gillian Slovo Tolstoy captures the rollercoaster arc of Anna's passion for Vronsky, and shows us the impossibility of her love ever being a match for what she's lost." Esther Freud “Possibly the greatest novel ever written. ![]() “One of the thousand books everyone must read.” The Guardian "Greatest novel ever written" Time Magazine Linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly Complete, unabridged, and formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience Illustrated with stunning images from the life and times of Tolstoy “Great value masterpieces wonderfully presented for kindle” Literary Classics ![]() TOLSTOY’S TWO GREATEST NOVELS IN ONE BEAUTIFUL EDITION ![]() ![]() ![]() The industry quickly became enamored with his almost anti-fashion photography, capturing the zeitgeist and the spirit of his subjects rather than pursuing today’s search for perfection, which he considers inhuman. With such credits as shooting the first American Vogue cover under Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, bringing together for the first time a group of young women who would become the ’90s supermodels, and numerous solo exhibitions at world-renowned institutions including the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and the Gagosian in London, Peter Lindbergh is a master of his craft who has made his mark in the halls of photography history. ![]() ![]() I’m interested in what is powerful and real.” ―Peter Lindbergh “What is merely beautiful has always bored me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Straight On Till Morning by Liz BraswellĪbout the Author After the sort of introverted childhood you would expect from a writer, Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games. ![]() Will the sleeping beauty be able to wake herself up? For more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series: But as Maleficent's agents follow her every move, Aurora struggles to discover who her true allies are and, moreover, who she truly is. Aurora isn't alone-a charming prince is eager to join her quest, and old friends offer their help. With a desperate fairy's last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape-created from her very own dreams. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. It should be simple-a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. ![]() About the Book "What if the sleeping beauty never woke up?"-Cover.īook Synopsis The 2nd installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if the sleeping beauty never woke up? ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dancing Wu Li Masters begins with the author’s explanation for the impetus behind his writing: a visit to the Esalen Institute in Northern California for a conference on physics. ![]() For its accessible and clarifying treatment of a subject matter often considered erudite, Dancing Wu Li Masters was awarded a National Book Award in Science in 1980. It utilizes ancient spiritual texts to help explain emergent knowledge about the physical world, focusing mainly on the discoveries of pioneers throughout the evolution of Western physics. It explores themes of modern physics, especially quantum phenomena, and poses new relationships between these new concepts and past metaphors from ancient eastern spiritual movements. Dancing Wu Li Masters is a 1979 book by philosopher and popular science author Gary Zukav. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s pretty lighthearted most of the time and has that fun vibe. There’s action, some trouble they have to figure out, great characters, an interesting world and just a touch of romance. I had a lot of fun reading it and it’s exactly the type of read I was in the mood for. ![]() Two Witches and a Whiskey was a great read. And I liked how both characters from book 1 and 2 all combined here. We also get the meet the mysterious creature on the cover, who was a great addition. It’s such a fun series and this book has a new adventure for Tori and her friends and continues some plot lines that progress throughout the book. ![]() I’ve been enjoying this series so far and happily jumped into book 3. I received a free copy from the author and voluntarily reviewed it I’m pretty sure this wasn’t part of the job description. And I have about five seconds to convince this very angry sea god not to shmoosh me like a bug. Somewhere near my feet is the rogue witch I just knocked out with a stolen spell. Somewhere behind me, my three mage friends are battling for their lives. So why am I currently standing in a black-magic ritual circle across from a fae lord? I’m just a human, slinging drinks like a pro and keeping my non-magical nose out of mythic business. I’m not a sorcerer or an alchemist, or even a wussy witch. I’m not a badass mage like my three smokin’ hot best friends. Three months ago, I landed a job as a bartender. Two Witches and a Whiskey (The Guild Codex: Spellbound #3) ![]() ![]() Bede benefited from having a well-stocked library, with books and papal letters collected by abbots who visited Rome he also took into account oral histories as told to him or relayed to him secondarily.īut what is an “ Ecclesiastical History”? It’s a history book, in that it describes ‘what happened to whom and where’. Many have expressed surprise that a monk at what is then considered the edge of the civilised world can produce such historical writing about Europe that, according to some scholars’ assessment, isn’t matched till the 12th century. He has written many other works - commentaries on Biblical books, biographies, etc - but it is for the EH that he is today called the father of English history. Today he is best known for the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or the Ecclesiastical History of the English People (common shorthand: EH). Bede lived in 7th and 8th century Northumbria, apparently spending virtually his entire life at the monastery in Jarrow. ![]() |