Beyond relying on these varied literary influences, Verne consulted many scientific texts for this novel as well. 1864) Verne was also accused of plagiarism by a writer named Leon Delmas, who had written “La Tete de Mimers” under a pseudonym in September 1863 (though Verne won the suit). Some scholars have pointed to disturbing textual similarities with Sands’ “Laura: Voyage dans le cristal” (Jan. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexandre Dumas, and Georges Sand. In particular, significant portions of chapters 37-39 were added to the 1867 large-octavo edition to account for changes in the field of prehistory that occurred around 1865.Īmong Verne's sources and influences for the Journey were Dante’s Inferno, Icelandic legends, Chateaubriand, Baudelaire, Virgil, E.T.A. Unlike Verne’s other works, Journey underwent a few revisions after its initial publication. Verne's writing took place most likely between January and August of 1864. An early manuscript exists but remains in private hands, and there are no proofs. Not much is known about the origins of the book. This book is part of the series of novels titled Voyages Extraordinaires, which also includes Verne's classics Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870). Engaging the themes of space and time, geology, travel, and discovery, it is a fantastic fusion of science and adventure. Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earthis one of its author’s most beloved works.
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When her father leaves her alone with Dexter’s daughter and her nurse at the beach, she finds herself driven to plunge her feet into the icy water, producing “a flame of ache that felt unexpectedly pleasant”, and resonating with the novel’s theme of loss: Anna, of course, knows none of this, and the scene is written with the watchfulness of a young girl. But Eddie is angling for a new job: he needs money to pay for a wheelchair for Anna’s sister Lydia, who is severely disabled. Now he’s working “at subsistence wages” as a bag man for Dunellen, a corrupt union official and old friend. A former stockbroker, Eddie hit hard times during the Depression. In the vivid opening set piece, 11-year-old Anna Kerrigan accompanies her father Eddie to visit a charming mobster named Dexter Styles at his house in Manhattan Beach. But this novel is also metaphysical in nature: Egan’s characters are transformed by the vast ocean around them, which both hides and reveals. Here, she places her characters in situations that permit trenchant cultural observations, writing revealingly about the challenges of coming of age in the middle of the American century, when women’s lives were substantially circumscribed. As a novelist, Egan possesses an unusual mix of qualities, combining a powerful social realism with poetic resonances that derive from her precise imagery and her fascination with the limitations of language. So this was less of a review of this manga and more my thoughts on all the iterations of this story. Now observe this image from the 2015 anime, in which she looks exactly the same as in this manga. Speaking of her, observe this image of her from the 1991 anime.Īh, covered in armor, as is befitting a person who regularly rides a horse into armed groups of enemies and shoots arrows at them and generally kicks their asses. There's also the womanizing minstrel Gieve and the badass warrior priestess Farangis. However, the good guys are a likeable lot, from the optimistic Prince Arslan to the tactician-turned-painter Narsus. I'm also not sure what to make of the lower-class dark-skinned people and the slaves that are too stupid to do anything except be slaves. He does AMAZING work.Īnyway, this is an interesting story, albeit one with lots of cruelty and bigotry and general suckiness. I also really like the artwork for the covers of the novels, which were done by Yoshitaka Amano. But I'm an old school type of person, so that's just my preference. I had a hard time getting used to the art in the manga, which seemed simplistic in comparison. This old art style is entirely preferable to me. There's a current anime that uses the art of this manga series, but there's also an OVA from 1991, which has another art style entirely. It's based on a series of novels, which is based on a Persian legend. It is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears, satisfies us deeply, and helps us remember just what it is we want most from a novel. The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. This sweeping epic set in 19th-century India begins in the foothills of the towering Himalayas and follows a young Indian-born orphan as he's raised in England and later returns to India where he falls in love with an Indian princess and struggles with cultural divides. In 1968 Harris took a job with the Associated Press in New York, working as a crime reporter and editor and learning about police procedure in homicide investigations. While at Baylor, Harris wrote and submitted dark, meticulously crafted short stories to publications such as True and Argosy. Though he found the job uninspiring, the experience and insight he gained into police work served him well in his later writings. Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1964, while working at night as a police reporter for the Waco Tribune-Herald. Ernest Hemingway was one of his favorite authors. Harris exhibited a love of books at an early age and spent much of his time reading. Harris attended Clarksdale High School, where his mother taught biology. When he was a young boy, he and his parents, William and Polly, moved to a farm in his father’s hometown, Rich, Mississippi. The author of The Silence of the Lambs and other novels of suspense, William Thomas Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1940. Jace fails to realize that the young man he has met is really a young woman, until Kyla is shot. Kyla Springer Bailey is looking to hire someone to return to Oregon and kill a man, and thinks she has found him in bounty hunter Jace Rankin. The novel is Harrington's account of what life was like in 1880s Montana. In 1983 she began her first novel, Homeward Hearts, which she finished and sold to a publisher ten years later. SIDELIGHTS: Alexis Harrington is a novelist who specializes in historical romances. Martin's Press, 1994, and Chocolate Kisses, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2003.Ĭontributor to anthologies, including Midsummer Night's Madness, St. Harper's Bride, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1997.Īllie's Moon, St. Homeward Hearts, Penguin Books ( New York, NY), 1994.Ī Light for My Love, Penguin Books ( New York, NY), 1995.Ī Taste of Heaven, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1996.ĭesperate Hearts, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1996. MEMBER: Romance Writers of America, Rose City Romance Writers.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Editor's Choice award and historical category award, Cascade Retreat and Recharge contest, 1991 Laurel Wreath Award, Volusia County Romance Writers, 1996, for A Taste of Heaven Knight in Shining Silver award, Romantic Times, 2000, for Allie's Moon. Formerly worked as a secretary and in administrative positions. Hobbies and other interests: Rock 'n' roll, movies, reading.ĪDDRESSES: Office-P.O. Education: Attended Portland State University. It is one of King's band-of-brothers tales, in which some ordinary folks find themselves caught up in a world turned upside down by a strange and malevolent power and fight back, as best they can, to re-establish some semblance of civilization. Now, from the author of Christine, Carrie and Cujo, comes another c-word: Cell. Revenge, at the hands of the mythmaker of Maine, might not always be swift, but it surely is gloriously gory. His are tales so cinematically told that they vividly appear on the screen in your mind as you read, often followed instantly, it seems, by actual film versions.Īlways lurking within are King's grievances with various malefactors of contemporary life: greedy corporations, soulless technology, desecrators of Indian burial grounds, polluters, towns that look the other way when their children begin to die. King has carved, bloodily, his own particular niche as a horror writer, with a bibliography too extensive to recount. The effects of the war on Earth and the economic justifications for it were often on Mandella’s mind. Of course, a sci-fi war book had plenty of cool combat scenes and futuristic weapons like mechanized exo-suits, but I found many of the philosophical parts between battles more interesting. Whether to risk death and re-enlist in the military culture he knows or try toįind a place in a society he no longer belongs to. Faced with a difficult choice, Mandella must choose Each time, he returns to a vastly different After surviving a grueling training regiment on theĮarth, Moon, and Charon, Mandella and the other surviving recruits are sent toĪttack the Taurans in the first ground encounter.ĭue to the time dilation of near-lightspeed space travel,Įach mission Mandella is sent on lasts only a year or two for him while tens or Soon ensues and William Mandella, a high-IQ physics student and our main Quickly implemented and an alien species called the Taurans is discovered. Solar systems, some of the colony ships go missing. Shortly after humans begin exploring and colonizing other With political questions that are popular in American culture yet rare in YA fiction, and a plot that's both excitingly provocative and frighteningly plausible, Divided We Fall will be Trent Reedy's very timely YA debut. And as tensions build on both sides, the conflict slowly escalates toward the unthinkable: a second American civil war. The president wants the soldiers arrested. By the time the smoke clears, 12 people are dead. but then Danny's gun misfires, spooking the other soldiers and the already fractious crowd. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems like a routine crowd control mission. In fact, he enrolled in the National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. From the author of Words in the Dust: an actionpacked YA novel set in a frighteningly plausible near future, about what happens when the States are no longer United.ĭanny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. Time travelers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master’s less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called “one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written.” Publisher: Hard Case Crime, Random HouseĬelebrating Ray Bradbury’s centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories-tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury |