![]() This is a full-cast production, narrated by Cate Barratt and featuring the voices of Linda Barrans, John Burlinson, Mark Crowle-Groves, Denis Daly, Susan Iannucci, Grace Keller Scotch, Jeff Moon, Sara Morsey, Kendra Murray, and Graham Scott. The Heptameron of Margaret Queen of Navarre AN OFF-LINE INDEX Translated by George Saintsbury Illustrated HTML Edition Edited by David Widger Project Gutenberg Editions CONTENTS Click on the before each title to go directly to a linked index of the detailed chapters and illustrations Volume 1. The stories include intimate details of adultery, flattery, betrayal, rape, and war, and their candor may startle even 21st-century listeners. Proposed as an edifying way of passing the time while a bridge is being repaired, the tale-telling - as well as the conversations that follow each story - quickly becomes a battle of wits between the sexes, with tales concerning illicit lovers, romantic conquests, lecherous monks, manly honor (and their opposite), and women's virtue (and their opposite). Her masterpiece, The Heptameron, is a collection of some 72 stories told by five gentlemen and five ladies who find themselves stranded in an abbey. She was the wife of both Charles IV, duke of Alençon, and Henry II of Navarre, and the grandmother of King Henry IV of France. The wife of a dukes valet shields her lover from her better half in the sixth tale. ![]() ![]() Queen Marguerite de Navarre (April 11, 1491-December 21, 1549) was one of the most powerful women of her age, having helped to negotiate the Treaty of Cambrai, known as the Ladies' Peace. In the fifth tale, a boat woman of Coulon tries to escape from a couple of merciless Gray Friars. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. ![]() He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.ĭue to his keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. ![]() ![]() ![]() ’70s and ’80s Horror Books and their CoversĬover by Terry Oakes from Birthpyre by Larry Brand, Corgi & Avon, 1980 The book’s eight chapters (with names like “Hail Satan,” “Weird Science,” and “Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps”) dive deep into pulp publishing that in a way that will delight anyone with an interest in horror, design, illustration or the macabre.īelow are just a few of the images included in the book that has critics smiling. Paperbacks from Hell includes 350 full-color reprints of some of the “creepiest, weirdest and most gruesome covers ever produced” in the realm of fiction. ![]() This year, he’s back with a journey through one of the most fascinating eras in pop publishing. Last year, author Grady Hendrix released My Best Friend’s Exorcism -a comically horrific tale of teenage friends growing up in the ’80s dealing with something a little more devilish than puberty. This year I’m celebrating with some delicious pumpkin beer and reading from one of my newest favorites, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (Quirk Books). ![]() Who doesn’t like a good scare every once in a while? Not to mention the beautiful tradition of Samhain, welcoming the darker half of the year and celebrating the end of the Harvest season. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Halloween of course. FINAL EXTENDED DEADLINE: Logo Design Awards ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The island of Madagascar is populated largely by the descendants of Southeast Asians-Austronesians. The final racial group Diamond will discuss is Asian. Most of the Khoisan were wiped out by disease or colonialist massacres before the beginning of the 20th century. Khoisan are physically characterized by yellowish skin and tightly coiled hair. Pygmies are physically characterized by their small size, dark skin, and large eyes and foreheads. Pygmies and Khoisan largely hail from the sub-Saharan region. Whites, as Diamond defines them, encompass people from North Africa with lighter skin and straighter hair. Blacks and whites “are familiar to Americans and Europeans and need no physical description.” Before 1492, blacks lived most in sub-Saharan Africa. Diamond offers some physical definitions of the five races he’ll discuss. ![]() ![]() ![]() With outstanding world-building and an unforgettable protagonist, this is a notable debut by an author whose work I look forward to reading for years to come.” Butler, this novel explores the struggles of slum dwellers aboard a spacecraft sadly reminiscent of our own world. “Imaginative in the vein of Colson Whitehead, Samuel R. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot-if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. ![]() If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Īster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. ![]() She’s used to the names she only wishes there was more truth to them. Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kitty reigns supreme over the world of carpools and minivans. But if you were to inquire about who topped Jack’s enemy list, she’d not hesitate to answer: Kitty Carricoe. A fearless journalist, she’s spent the past decade embedded in the world’s hot spots, writing about the fall of nations and the rise of despots.
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