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In many cases, chapters contemplate not one author, but certain groups of works, organized by nationality, subject or period there is, thus, a chapter on Accadian-Babylonian literature, one on the Holy Grail, and one on Chansons, for example. Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Download cover art Download CD case insert Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01 Really, this book feels like a living piece of Ambergris itself. That's the easy way to describe this book. From the start, I’ll say this is a four out of five lichens read.Ĭity of Saints and Madmen is a collection of short stories about the fictional city of Ambergris. I am lost inside my mind, inside an apartment unit, inside a pizza.”Īs you can tell, this is the perfect time to read a 700-page tome about a nightmare city that is full of dystopic mysteries and meta-texts. “Did I make pizza yesterday or three months ago? Or am I eating pizza for every meal, every day, having it as snacks between meals in small bites, blending it into a smoothie for all my beverages, writing notes on old stale pizzas to myself and then waking in the night and eating these would-be notepads? To ingest something is to fully control it. Being in lock down for 6 months and only leaving once a week for a contactless vegetable pickup from a local farm CSA, everything sort of takes on a surreal fever-dream quality. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875.įrom 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.Īt the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. They were married in 1855.Īlthough he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. Which is interesting in itself, in much the same way that Marty McFly’s 1985 is now chronologically closer to his idealised 1955 than he is to us here in 2016. To a contemporary reader this is of course very similar to Claire North’s The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, although obviously Grimwood had the idea a good 25 years before her. He’s been given a a reset button: a chance to do it all over again, but this time knowing exactly how the course of history is going to play out. When he wakes up again he’s lying on his bed in his college dorm, in the spring of 1963 back in his teenage body, but with all the memories of the “past” 25 years. Suddenly he dies of a heart attack – a forlorn end to an unremarkable, underachieving life. On October 18, 1988, Jeff Winston is 42 years old, sitting in his office speaking to his wife on the phone. Alternate histories of space exploration are deftly conjured up, some of them wonderfully paranoid. Perhaps they're hiding.?Īnother Baxter theme revisited again in this mind-stretching collection is the high-tech romance of the space programme and walking on the Moon. Perhaps there's teeming intelligence out there, but we're not listening on the right wavelength. Perhaps what we see through our telescopes is a clever fake-but supposing we overload the capabilities of the fakers? Maybe intelligence always destroys itself before crossing interstellar space, or something kindly takes emerging life away to a safer place. Perhaps our theories are wrong and we're in a galactic quarantine. The skies should be full of other intelligences. Intelligent life has evolved here-ourselves. According to our best scientific theories there's nothing special about Earth or the Solar System. As with "Manifold" these stories explore possible (and significantly linked) states of Earth and the universe, alternate timelines offering different solutions to Baxter's favourite cosmological question-the Fermi Paradox. "The phase space of a system is the set of all conceivable states of that system," says the first page. “Phase Space is a collection of 25 SF stories by Stephen Baxter, many thematically linked to his "Manifold" trilogy (Time, Space and Origin) and other novels of cosmic scope. The Lincoln Highway is a bit of a departure from his previous novels because it begins in the Midwest in the 1950s. My only complaint is that he doesn’t write faster, but what he lacks in quantity he makes up for in quality. His works are full of decency and a respect for previous times, which I find refreshing. His other books, Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow, are two novels I highly recommend. (This in no way affects the honesty of my reviews!) All commissions will be donated to the ALS Association.Īmor Towles is one of my favorite authors, even though he’s only written a total of three novels including The Lincoln Highway. As an Amazon Associate I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. This post may contain Amazon Affiliate links. The Lincoln Highway is an historical fiction/coming of age story packed with imaginative and masterful storytelling that paints a vivid portrait of 1950s America. Practically before their special assignment starts, the murderer strikes again this time at them. They both know immediately that their partnership will pose more of an obstacle than the lack of evidence left by the murderer. Garrett is the perfect image of an agent: serious, sober, and focused, which makes their partnership a classic clich: total opposites, good cop-bad cop, the odd couple. But when he's paired with Special Agent Zane Garrett, it's hate at first sight. He's cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. Special Agent Ty Grady is pulled out of undercover work after his case blows up in his face. But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case. “"Cut & Run Series: Book One" A series of murders in New York City has stymied the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an indecipherable message. The Field Endowment supports a biennial lecture by visiting scholars at Swarthmore College on the subject of the history of the United States. He won the Bronze Star for heroism, helping in the evacuation of a small aircraft carrier that was damaged by a kamikaze attack in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Field, Jr., a distinguished professor of history at Swarthmore College from 1947 to 1986. Widely published in the fields of American Naval History and International Relations, Field also served four years in the Navy during World War II. '53 and Vera Lundy Jones '58, in 2001, and is named after the late James A. Lecture Endowment was established by Thomas D. Lecture. His prize-winning books have appeared in 15 languages and include The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Beacon Press, 2017). In the fall, Marcus Rediker, a Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris, delivered the biennial James A. Marcus Rediker, Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris, discusses Benjamin Lay and the Surprising Origins of Revolutionary Abolitionism at the James A. It's as much a character in the novel as India is in "Midnight's Children," and to invest it with this status, the author needs a figure commensurate with the history of the place. Newfoundland - or, as one of Johnston's characters calls it, perhaps more appropriately, Old Lost Land - is the oldest British colony, a hardscrabble island that for centuries was subject, as the book makes quite clear, to the idiocy of various crown schemes. Naipaul, and you can see them, too, in Wayne Johnston's new novel, "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams." You can see these forces at work in the novels of Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey and V.S. From the former, the writer draws enveloping fantasies from the latter, an elegant melancholy. It's writing that plays on two counterpoised registers: the nostalgia of the native for the pre-colonial land, and the nostalgia of the colonizer for the mother country. The literature of empire keeps floating up from the verges of the British Commonwealth like buoys marking some drowned leviathan. |