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![]() ![]() ![]() She is the author of the Time After Time series, which follows a pair of lovers through their many lifetimes together, and the Cat Collier Mysteries, as well as holiday short stories with Books To Go Now Publishers. Carol loves to travel her favorite places being Italy, Aruba, and the American Southwest, which show up in her novels quite a bit. She has worked as a printer, managed a department store office, worked as an insurance agent, and worked in the hardware and automotive departments of a large store. She is a retired teacher from a local school district in Ohio, where she taught for thirty-five years. They're about life, love, loss, and lunacy. Her novels, classified as romantic action adventures with a sci-fi/ fantasy twist, and mysteries. Carol Ann Kauffman is the author of twenty-some books to date, from short stories to full-length novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 1910 Everyman's Library edition in 6 volumes was prepared by Oliphant Smeaton. A second Milman edition, which serves as the basis for most electronic and public domain versions such as the Gutenberg, was published in 1846 in 6 volumes. (Dean) Milman edition, the first English critical edition, was published in 12 volumes. Volumes IV, V, VI were published together in one edition only: 1788 copies each.Ī one-volume edition with an "introductory memoir of the author" by William Youngman was published by J.O.published with the sixth edition of volume one as a new set. First editions, 1781 Mar 1 ( a and b b sometimes called the second edition).Volumes II, III were published together in three editions between 17:.Fifth editions, 1782 Apr 11 ( a and b).Third edition, 1777 May ( AR) 1000 copies.First editions, 1776 Feb 17 ( a and b- AR), 1000 copies. ![]() Three of the six contain authorial revisions, marked AR: It was published in six editions between 17. Volume I has a complex history of its own.The original edition was published between 17 in six volumes by the firm of Strahan & Cadell, in the Strand, London. The six-volume work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) has been reprinted many times over the years in various editions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Georgie Carruthers, a twenty-two year old bank teller, does not take sh*t from anyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, I enjoyed Ice Planet Barbarians–it’s funny, full of female-centric torrid love scenes, and it was kind of interesting to consider whether or not a symbiotic relationship with a worm can really facilitate finding one’s soul mate.Īnd, whoa, does it have a strong willed heroine although I struggled a bit with how quickly she got over losing her life on Earth. I guess if I read more of the series– book 22 just came out in February– I might better understand why readers are obsessed with Dixon’s books. You’re looking for more, however, aren’t you? You want to know why Ruby Dixon’s wildly successful series about a group of women who, after being kidnapped from Earth and imprisoned on a spaceship which then crashes, find themselves on an ice planet populated by large blue aliens, mostly male, all of whom are searching for true love, babies, and copious hot sex, have sold bazillions and been analyzed by luminaries such as CNN and countless blogs. Here’s my one sentence review of this book: “ Ice Planet Barbarians is predictable, ridiculous, and a damn good time.” ![]() ![]() ![]() O元72176W Page_number_confidence 91.64 Pages 278 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0156838389 The Oedipus cycle an English version by Sophocles 0 Ratings 0 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 1 Edition Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1969 Publisher Harcourt, Brace & World Language English Pages 249 Previews available in: English This edition doesn't have a description yet. Urn:lcp:sophoclesoedipus00soph:lcpdf:a98c58ce-3d19-414f-b36e-3b8c13fad165 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier sophoclesoedipus00soph Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3jw9h42x Isbn 0156838389ĩ780156027649 Lccn 62000877 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7365558M Openlibrary_edition The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Sophocles, Dudley Fitts (Translator), Robert Fitzgerald (Translator) 3.98 65,222 ratings2,221 reviews English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Greek authors routinely drew their basic material from a cycle of four epic poems, known as the Theban Cycle, that was already ancient in the fifth century B.C.E. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:28:21 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA179101 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donor The story of Oedipus and the tragedies that befell his family were nothing new to Sophocless audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The mouth below continued to work, chomping upward as the claw pulled the old man down, his free leg flailing like a drowning man’s trying to kick to the surface. However, this action prompts Will Henry to wonder when it’s okay to do so, how you know that they want you to, as well as a multitude of other factors. Warthrop quickly shoots him dead in order to end his suffering quickly. During their first encounter with the Anthropophagi, one of the characters is snatched and eaten alive. This theme is brought up really early in The Monstrumologist. Theme: Sometimes in life, when a friend may be suffering, a person might face the difficult decision of whether or not they should end their suffering by death because it may be hard to decide what the right choice is. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1999 ‘Message in a Bottle’, in 2002 ‘ A Walk to Remember, ‘The Note Book’ in 2004, ‘Nights in Rodanthe’ in 2008, then in 2010 ‘Dear John’ and ‘The Last Song’. Following this successful novel were exceptional writings one after the other out of which six were made into film adaptations. Of course, The Best of Me would rank a little higher on our list if we only critiqued the first half of the movie. After being published in 1996, ‘The Notebook’ made the best seller list of The New York Times instantly. In this 2014 film, former high school sweethearts Amanda (Michelle Monaghan) and Dawson (James Marsden) reunite in their hometown as adults. In 1995 Sparks had one million dollars in cash for ‘The Note Book’ from the famous Time Warner Book Group. ![]() ![]() A literary agent Theresa Park discovered his novel from her agency and offered to represent him. This novel was to become a launch pad for Sparks. That was when he wrote his renowned novel ‘The Notebook’. ![]() In 1992 he tried a business in pharmaceuticals and the next year moved to Greenville, SC. It sold about fifty thousand copies in the first year of being published. After trying his luck in publishing, law school, real estate and even waiting tables, he finally co wrote a novel named ‘A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding’ with Billy Mills Wokini. Sparks experimented with various careers trying to fit in but didn’t succeed. Sparks wrote his first novel in 1985 which never got published and another one in 1989, also not published. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, it takes all three books to really develop this full and all-encompassing picture of Beartown. The thing is, to the reader, Beartown is so vivid. Beyond that, people hunt and drink and have terrible opinions. It’s desolate and freezing, and its citizens live for one thing: hockey. Beartown is this tiny town forgotten by most but comprising entire world for some. ![]() ![]() It’s the cumulative reading experience, and it’s a feeling that doesn’t happen often upon finishing a book.įirst of all is the setting. It’s something you have to experience yourself. I’ll try to cover some of the highlights, but Backman does so much right I’m not sure I could ever express everything. While I sort of missed that feel-good aspect of Backman’s work that endears me to him so much, I still found this series to be utterly masterful. Each installment ( Beartown, Us Against You, and The Winners) is really quite heavy, both thematically and in overall tone. ![]() Beartown is one of the few exceptions to this. Packed full of of hilarity and lightness, his books inspire so many good feelings it makes the difficult life and death stuff easier to process. He has this way of writing something that is extremely heavy but, typically, he does it in a way that is enjoyable and not at all an arduous experience. Of all the literary voices currently on the scene, Backman’s may not be the loudest, but his is certainly one of the most powerful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Children identify with the ducklings because they behave as children do. Illustrated with sepia drawings rather than the traditional black-and-white pictures found in most children’s books of the day, the book, which received the 1942 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, has continued to garner praise years after its first publishing. The drawings of Boston represent a duck’s eye view of the city.Each of the individual ducklings is “bored, inquisitive, sleepy, or they are scratching, talking over their backs one to another, running to catch up with the lineâ€. ![]() We see sepia drawings quite a bit now, but it was unusual at the time: He washed the ducklings off in the bathtub, put them in a pan and got to work. Itching to begin the illustrations, McCloskey went down to the Washington Square Market, bought a crate of ducks and brought them back to his Greenwich Village studio apartment. Many people know Make Way for Ducklings, but they might not know the lengths to which Robert McCloskey went to get the beloved Mallard family to look just right. ![]() McCloskey’s devotion to mimesis reminds me of the lengths the Hayao Miyazaki studio goes to when animating naturalistic movements. ![]() ![]() The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield All-Consuming Fire (adapted from the novel by Andy Lane). ![]() Stranger Things: Notes from the Upside Down (2017)Īudio plays For Big Finish Productions.Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (2012).The Case Notes of Sherlock Holmes (2009).The Wit and Wisdom of DCI Gene Hunt (2009). ![]() The Good, The Bad, and The Infernal (2013).Torchwood: The Men Who Sold the World (2011). ![]()
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