![]() Genres ClassicsFictionHistorical FictionFrance LiteratureFrench LiteratureGothic.more. It saves her, for she captures the heart of the hunchback. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form. ![]() Esméralda seeing his thirst, offers him water. Quasimodo is caught and whipped and ordered to be tied down in the heat. Frollo is torn between his lust and the rules of the church. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer, is introduced by his crowning as Pope of Fools.Įsméralda, a beautiful 16-year-old gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men but especially Quasimodo’s adopted father, Claude Frollo. The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this. The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the Archdeacon (Claude Frollo). ![]() It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice. Until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined. ![]() Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. 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A vixen is looking for eggs for her young, and Mr. A bell-ringer and his apprentice want to ring the bells - the only problem is that the bells have gone. Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time at night. ![]() ![]() It's the night before the feast in the village of Furstenfelde (population: an odd number). A fictional portrait of a small town in Germany where memory mixes with myth, hope, regret, history and folklore. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adults and children of all ages will be able to connect in some way with the characters on the page. The highly relatable experience of trying to measure up is illustrated on some of the pages through the presence of a ruler. In contrast, dull colours and minimal images express feelings of difference. Pages filled with vibrant images of flowers and nature are used to represent the child’s unique qualities spoken of in the text. Rafael Lopez creates beautiful illustrations to inspire imagination and conjure up the precious richness of our differences. ![]() ![]() The children discover that the moment you bravely reach out you will find that “every new friend has something a little like you-and something else so fabulously not quite like you at all.” Written in beautifully poetic text that is perfectly portrayed through the illustrations, this picture book speaks of hope and human connection in the face of fear, a concept easily connected to by all. Throughout the pages, the reader goes on a journey through the eyes of various children and their experiences feeling like outsiders. ![]() Inspired by a poem in her award-winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, the Brooklyn based author Jacqueline Woodson wrote The Day You Begin about the moments in a child’s life when s/he feels like an outsider. Illustrated by Rafael López, Penguin Random House, 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() Full of self-doubt, seeking validation in often precarious ways, this is a no holds barred story. He is so full of life and tells his story with such flair and flamboyance that absolutely suits him. I am grateful he didn’t appear to succumb to addiction during this journey, and he was aware of this too. This story will not be for everyone, it’s full of in-depth info about a rampant sex life and awakening, and a very turbulent self-discovery of sexual identity, addiction, longing, and a very complex search for how Shane identifies. I was told my uncle died of cancer because the truth was not to be revealed. I was very interested as I have an affinity with anything related to identity, sexuality and a journey such as this as I lost a family member to HIV AIDS in the early to mid-1980’s. I don’t watch reality television, so I really didn’t come into this with knowledge about Shane and Courtenay Act. ![]() It was not just an audio read it was a performance. ![]() This read like a theatrical show, Shane’s voice on the narration was great. ![]() ![]() Jefferson’s critics still have something valid to say, even if their voices here are stilled. But in the end, as fine a rendering of the nation’s third president as this book may be, it comes too close to idolization. ![]() Meacham understandably holds Jefferson up as the remarkable figure he was. While he’s fully conversant with long-held skepticism about aspects of Jefferson’s character (his dissimulation, for instance) and his stance toward slavery, Meacham gives him the benefit of the doubt throughout (on, for example, his Revolutionary War governorship of Virginia and the draconian 1807 embargo). To Meacham, who won a Pulitzer for his American Lion, Jefferson was a philosopher/politician, and “the most successful political figure of the first half century of the American republic.” Those words only faintly suggest the inspirational tone of the entire work. Bernstein’s Thomas Jefferson. Like David McCullough’s John Adams (to which it can be seen as a counterpart), Meacham’s book is a love letter to its subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() Another Jefferson biography (right on the heels of Henry Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain)! Fortunately, Meacham’s is a fine work, deserving a place high on the list of long biographies of its subject even if rivaled by such shorter ones as Richard B. and its exhibited at its finest in Edward Herrmanns skilled reading of Jon Meachams biography of Americas third president. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More importantly, both already realised the power they would accrue by joining Castile and Aragon. Seventeen-year-old Ferdinand, already bloodied in battle, had to sneak through Castile disguised as a servant boy, but his willingness to brave hostile territory in order to reach his princess fitted perfectly with Isabella’s ideal of romantic, masculine chivalry. She had first shown that mettle aged 18 – when she snubbed her half-brother, King Henry IV of Castile, and a powerful faction of Grandees by choosing her own husband, rather than accept one foisted on her (candidates had included the future Richard III of England). Those who knew Isabella, however, were already aware of how single-minded, even stubborn, she was. A small, delicate-looking young woman was easy to underestimate. Review: Isabella of Castile: Europes First Great Queen, Giles Tremlett (Bloomsbury, 2017). A major biography of the queen who transformed Spain. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Yet the paucity of Grandees (Castile’s grandiose, self-regarding magnates) and powerful bishops in Segovia that day proved that she had few backers. Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen. She was the daughter of a former king, Juan II, and of a princess from the adventurous Portuguese royal family. Few of those who watched Isabella process through Segovia would have foreseen this. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's when she learns about the true horrors hiding in the gilded shadows of the estate- dark, twisted horrors of humanity at its lowest- and if she's not careful, she'll also become sucked into the twisted machinations of Blaine, too. He doesn't seem to want to be there- and then, she realizes to her horror that not only does he not want to be there, he also can't ever leave. Lilith has a knack for reading people, though, and despite her initial attraction to Finn, she realizes that something about his situation isn't quite right. ![]() Once there, she sees the most beautiful man she's ever laid eyes on in her life: a young Irish man named Finn, Blaine's personal companion. The premise is pretty interesting, even though it seems like standard new adult fare at a glance: beautiful and sexually autonomous heroine, Lilith, is a professional erotic artist who ends up being invited to an exclusive and prestigious estate to do a commission to the reclusive lady, Blaine, whom her philandering father owes a debt. ![]() THE TIED MAN is a book that's been on my radar for years, but I never got around to reading it myself until Heather invited me to buddy read it with her via Kindle Unlimited. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fantasy sequence The Amber Chronicles, which started with Nine Princes in Amber, deals with the ruling family of a Platonic realm at the metaphysical heart of things, who can slide, trickster-like through realities, and their wars with each other and the related ruling house of Chaos. Most of his novels deal, one way or another, with tricksters and mythology, often with rogues who become gods, like Sam in Lord of Light, who reinvents Buddhism as a vehicle for political subversion on a colony planet. Zelazny continued to write excellent short stories throughout his career. ![]() Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf the most famous of these is A Rose for Ecclesiastes in which a poet struggles to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth continuing. ![]() ![]() This one is the ending of a poem called Scheherzade. "Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. I've been thinking about this one for a few days, especially with the recent developments of marriage equality in the states. You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do long division,Īnd you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do,īecause you are weak and hollow and it doesn't matter anymore." "The blond boy in the red trunks is holding your head underwater because he is trying to kill you,Īnd you deserve it, you do, and you know this, and you are ready to die in this swimming poolīecause you wanted to touch his hands and lips and this means your life is over anyway. I get extremely excited when I read words that make me feel, so I hope these give you some light. There isn't much about it on this subreddit, and being an overzealous sharer of literature, I wanted to change that. ![]() Richard Siken wrote a collection of work titled Crush. ![]() |