![]() ![]() ![]() "My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed - all belonged to the past," Antoinette says wistfully on the very first page, and throughout the story she longs for a return to what she remembers as the innocent and happy days of her girlhood. Related to the theme of British Imperialistic Decline, nostalgia plays an important role in the text from its outset. Rochester's intense need to control Antoinette represents the British fight to maintain economic and legal control over an area they considered their territory. Much of the descriptive detail in the work serves to underscore this theme for example, Coulibri Estate has fallen into a state of utter disarray and Antoinette says that she "did not remember the place when it was prosperous." Throughout the work we see the English struggling to maintain their tenuous grasp over the island while simultaneously grappling with the reality that this domain is very different from Europe. By moving the timeframe of the story to just after the passage of the Emancipation Acts, Rhys emphasizes this aspect of her novella. ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea is an end-of-empire text that charts the downfall of English colonialism in the Caribbean, a process that began with the abolition of slavery. Buy Study Guide British Imperialistic Decline ![]()
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![]() ![]() Willis chose the British Black Plague pandemic of 1348 as the main setting of the story while intermitently returning to the futuristic world of England in 2055. Setting wise, the books both chose notable events within our world history within which to set up the story backdrop. Through this comparison paper, I hope to prove that, even though authors shall never admit it, they are also heavily influenced by the written works of their predecessors and oftenimes, end up borrowing story plots and devices which the latter writer, who in this case is Michael Crichton, hoped to have improved upon in his version of a suspense thriller time travel tale. Those who were left in the present era to assist them in coming back though have their own agenda and work towards an endgame, that of covering up the mistakes of their experiment in time travel. While Michael Crichton sent his characters back in time in order to save a noted historian whose time travel times also took a serious turn for the worst. ![]() In the present of the novel, the remaining characters work tirelessly to get their stranded comrade back from an era where she was not supposed to be in the first place. ![]() ![]() For Connie Willis, the characters needed to travel back in time for a historical study gone almost hopelessly awry. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() A particular element of this is the regular but purposefully vague allusions in the early chapters to the ‘nightmarish incidents which were to come’. This is a classic and very intricately plotted whodunnit, where the detective slowly works through all the options, using questions in the narrative to build tension with dramatic effect. Before long, the murders begin, and they are grisly, dramatic and laden with symbolism. ![]() When Detective Kindaichi gets a tip-off that the old man has died, and things are about to get hairy, he rushes to the picturesque lakeside village the family calls home. The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo, billed as a classic Japanese murder mystery, is a tale about a family fortune, a family feud and family secrets, revolving around the explosive, divisive and extremely complex will left by Sahei Inugami, patriarch of the Inugami Clan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Gay) (2) (mm) (2) 1.1-to-read (2) 2007 (2) action (2) adventure (2) age-gap (2) alien (2) aliens (5) book-ebook (2) book-series (2) defined-roles (2) Details series (2) ebook (14) English (2) erotica (5) fantasy (3) Fated Mates (2) fiction (2) first-of-a-series-world (1) futuristic (4) gay (14) Gay men > Fiction (2) gay romance (2) gender and sexuality - gay characters (2) genre-sci-fi (2) glbt (3) gsckindle (2) historical (7) Human Lover (2) lgbt (3) Loose Id (6) m/m (15) m/m romance (5) MLR Press (2) mm-sci-fi (2) own (2) paperback (2) pirates (17) print (2) read (4) read in 2011 (3) romance (13) science fiction (37) sf (2) short story (4) spaceship (2) time travel (6) to-read (8) violence (2) Top Members ![]() ![]() Each series can be read independent of each other and the lead female character will end up with more than one love interest. This is a brand new dark menage series set in the same world as the Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep series with character crossover. So I think I’m gonna join The Death Club and let my freak flag fly. Every day is anarchy and that’s my favourite flavour. ![]() Want to know another one? I quite like it here. Don’t ask them or they’ll send me back to that creepy asylum where they gave me the crazy pills. Which is a freaking insult by the way as I’m already the best killer in town. I can’t decide which I want most.Īnyways, my hot, tattooed, muscular insane Irish captor thinks I might make a good hit woman once he trains me up. He either wants to kiss me or choke me out. The Death Club (Dead Men Walking 1) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti Free eBooks Download Description: Chaos. I call him Dead Man on account of his soulless eyes. Oh and there’s another dude down here who lives in a cage and doesn’t talk. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was kidnapped, sold, sold again, stuck in a death game, sold AGAIN and now I’m living in a serial killer’s basement. I wished for my life to improve, but it didn’t. I know killing technically doesn’t start with a C – but wouldn’t life be better if it did? Just like it would be better if the Devil was my boyfriend, Santa wasn’t a d*ck and I didn’t live under a bridge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time of his death from cancer in 2005, he was married to a costume designer named Costanza Romero. Ten of Wilson’s best-known and most critically acclaimed plays formed the Pittsburgh Cycle, with each play focusing on one decade of the African American experience. Eight years later, Fences garnered both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award the following year, The Piano Lesson followed suit with another Pulitzer. Paul, Minnesota in 1978 and began writing plays instead. After some initial efforts at poetry, Wilson moved to St. ![]() A few years later, he cofounded the Black Horizon Theater in Pittsburgh. After his father’s death when Wilson was 20, he took the name August Wilson and began writing. He faced prejudice while attending Catholic school, being one of few African American students, and eventually dropped out to study in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Wilson always identified strongly with his mother’s Black heritage and culture. Wilson’s parents divorced while he was young, and he and his five siblings remained with their mother in Pittsburgh, where they lived in predominantly poor Black and Jewish neighborhoods. August Wilson’s mother, Daisy Wilson, was African American woman his father, Frederick Kittel, was of Sudeten German origins (Germans living in what was then Bohemia). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My grandparents lived near the park, and I have been to the zoo and the amusement park there many times, but I’ve never been there at night nor seen travestis awaiting clients by the statue of Dante. The novel begins and ends in Sarmiento Park, where the travestis work. ![]() Her story unfolds as she finds a group of more experienced travestis (more on this word later) who teach and protect her, and with whom she shares daily doses of cruelty, pain, and humiliation but also of solidarity and joy. At the age of eighteen, she moves to the city to attend the public National University (in Argentina, public universities are free and open to all) and where by night, to support herself, she becomes a sex worker. The novel, a work of autofiction, is a first-person coming-of-age story told by Camila, who is born poor and a boy in a town in the hills of Córdoba Province, and whose parents violently reject her when, as a teen-ager, she starts dressing as a girl. I first heard of “Las Malas,” a novel by the Argentinean writer Camila Sosa Villada (to be published in English as “ Bad Girls” by Other Press, in May), when a friend told me that the book had made him think of me, because it’s set in the nineteen-nineties, in the city of Córdoba, where I spent my adolescence, and where most of my family still lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book chronicles the abrupt arrival and slow departure of a fictional outbreak of bubonic plague to the Algerian coastal town of Oran in the month of April, sometime in the 1940s. ![]() In 1947, when he was 34, Albert Camus, the Algerian-born French writer (he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature ten years later, and die in a car crash three years after that) provided an astonishingly detailed and penetrating answer to these questions in his novel The Plague. Usually a question like this is theoretical: What would it be like to find your town, your state, your country, shut off from the rest of the world, its citizens confined to their homes, as a contagion spreads, infecting thousands, and subjecting thousands more to quarantine? How would you cope if an epidemic disrupted daily life, closing schools, packing hospitals, and putting social gatherings, sporting events and concerts, conferences, festivals and travel plans on indefinite hold? ![]() ![]() ![]() Please note all of the artworks we sell are vintage and unless otherwise stated, their condition is typical for their age. The frame has some minor wear and age toning, commensurate with age. There are some age-related marks to the top right corner of the painting, but overall it’s in very good vintage condition. This oil on board is housed in a lovely wood and gilt frame with a linen inner border. A rich and uplifting colour palette has been used, and the plethora of colours not only imbues the work with liveliness but is also a visual feast for the eyes. Painted with expressive and textured brushstrokes, the artist has skilfully used blocks of contrasting colours to reconstruct this scene. Sailboats are at rest in the blue waters, and in the background, we can spot a mountain landscape. This striking composition presents a coastal scape that is lined with houses by the coast. A lively and expressive large modernist coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto board. ![]() |