![]() ![]() Another unbearable Cambridge winter is closing in when a brochure advertising free emigration to Australia slides through Henry and Charlotte’s mail slot. They never do, and Henry is left to wonder who he is and where he belongs. She promises she and his father will soon follow. Her daughter, Lucie, is still nursing when Charlotte becomes pregnant again, and Henry, her husband, wonders if a mother can be sent mad by her child.īorn in India in 1934 to an English father, Henry is sent to England at the age of eleven by his Hindu mother, who fears for her mixed-race child’s future. When she does stand before a canvas, her mind goes blank. Despite a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, in 1963 Charlotte rarely has time to paint. Becoming a first-time mother can be difficult, especially with a fussy baby. ![]()
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His distraught wife lives at her mother’s, his sister is a social-climbing burden, and his father is succumbing to dementia in a nursing home. Marcos lives his life on autopilot, doing what he needs to do to survive one day at a time. The story centers around Marcos Tejo, a respected processing plant worker who is emotionally broken after his baby’s death. Governments have legalized cannibalism (which has the added benefits of curbing overpopulation and reducing poverty), and factory farms have reopened for the breeding, slaughter, and processing of humans. ![]() Societies around the globe, rather than shifting to vegetarianism, continue to demand meat at alarming costs. A virus has decimated the world’s animal population. In Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica expertly crafts a horrifying reality that feels too contemporary to be the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() During the 1870s, Dostoevsky health declined, and in 1881 he died of a pulmonary hemorrhage. He and Anna had four children, two of whom died in infancy. He was deeply in debt due to his gambling addiction. In 1864 Maria died, and in 1867 Dostoevsky married his second wife, Anna. ![]() Their marriage was passionate but troubled. After being released, he married his first wife, Maria, in 1857. In the prison camp there, his health worsened. Dostoevsky and the other members were sentenced to death by firing squad, but at the final moment, just before they were about to be shot, the sentence was switched to hard labor in Siberia. He joined a reformist group named the Petrashevsky Circle, who were denounced to the authorities. During this period, Dostoevsky became interested in socialism, although he clashed with other socialists over the issue of religion, as he was a devout adherent to the Russian Orthodox Church. Dostoevsky’s first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846. Not long after, he started gambling, a habit that became a lifelong problem for him. It was around this time that Dostoevsky, like the hero of The Idiot, Prince Myshkin, began to suffer from epilepsy. ![]() His mother died of tuberculosis when he was a teenager, and his father died two years later. As a child, Dostoevsky suffered from ill health, and developed an early love of literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born into a noble family in Russia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holden Artistic Footwear, and a score of others.Īrranged chronologically, the plates present an overview of 90 years of fashion evolution of footwear, millinery, and such accessories as gloves, scarves, purses, handkerchiefs, and more. Many illustrations come from trade catalogs of such merchants as Montgomery Ward, Sears, Roebuck & Co., Jordan Marsh & Co., N. 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Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. ”It came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll. ![]() ![]() ![]() Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone-age 5 to 105-who has ever wondered how things work, and why. How do these things work? Where do they come from? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we opened them up, heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. boxes that make clothes smell better (washers and dryers).planes with turning wings (helicopters).the pieces everything is made of (the periodic table).the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates).A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the Internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. the other worlds around the sun (the solar system) Randall Munroe is the author of the 1 New York Times bestsellers What If and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If, and the popular webcomic xkcd.the shared space house (the International Space Station).In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including: Synopsis: Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After darting my eyes between his face and his hand, I accepted his gesture. His lovely eyes and formal etiquette caught me off guard. He turned his body to face me and leaned into this sink as he extended a hand, his eyes even more beautiful when they were looking into mine without barriers. It was breathtaking, even in the damn mirror. It was the perfect timing when three of God’s creations collided: the sun, trees, and water. It wasn’t the deep blue shade of the ocean past the reflection of the tree line, or the white when the foam gathered in the sand, but the sweet spot in the middle. It was the color of the reflection of palm trees across a shoreline when the sun was at its highest point in the day. A color so distinguishable, but indescribable at the same time. It was in that moment I noticed his green eyes. 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