![]() ![]() ![]() But in the nineteenth century a series of archaeological discoveries provided startling evidence that Troy might really have existed, leading some scholars to conclude that there could even be some truth behind the myth. For centuries it was assumed to be a mythical event. Some of the most familiar names of Greek mythology are associated with the war, including Achilles and Hector, Odysseus and Helen of Troy - and it has also given us the story of the Trojan Horse.The war is the backdrop for Homer's epic poem The Iliad, and features in many other works from classical antiquity. A Greek army besieged Troy for ten years before the city was finally overrun and destroyed. According to the traditional version of the story, the war began when a Trojan prince, Paris, eloped with the Spartan queen Helen. ![]() Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trojan War, one of the best known events of Greek mythology. ![]()
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![]() They are good for each other, and kept me smiling while Aria and Perry were separated. He’s by far my favorite character and I loved watching the friendship between him and Aria grow. I love the Aria/Roar/Perry dynamic and I have such a soft spot for Roar. The character development was fantastic as well. ![]() I loved delving deeper into the world of the Outsiders, and seeing how all the clans/tribes/whatever they are called interact with each other. I’m fascinated by the mystery of the Aether, and was excited to get more information about it. The world that Rossi has built is one of the most compelling I’ve read. I read the first books in this series, Under the Never Sky, a couple of months ago and was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved it, and was eager to get my hands on this sequel when it arrived and I have to say it did not disappoint. ![]() ![]() I have to admit that it took me a minute to get into the story, because Saoirse is a brat. The Falling in Love Montage is a YA contemporary fiction sapphic love story that offers a realistic message about the worthiness of love despite its ephemerality. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real. ![]() Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up-and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out.īut after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. ![]() A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. ![]() If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby. ![]() Farris Smith depicts Nick as deeply impacted by the ravages of war: his Nick is a. Charged with enough alcohol, heartbreak, and profound yearning to transfix even the heartiest of golden age scribes, Nick reveals the man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades. Nick is serving in France a few years after his graduation from Yale. An epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic story of self-discovery, this rich and imaginative novel breathes new life into a character that many know only from the periphery. Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's world, he was at the centre of a very different story - one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, a figure from her past reemerges to change her life forever: the hotel's dapper owner, railroad tycoon Rake Solvino. ![]() Working at the lavish Regal Sol hotel and newly engaged to Pinkerton Detective Martin Cadden, Josephine Galena Valencia has big dreams for her future. Snow Falling is a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami-a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for the Magic City. With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane's breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. "Just the thing for a cold winter's night between episodes." -The Washington Post Book World "Fans of the show will undoubtedly enjoy the chance to read Jane's book in real life." -Entertainment Weekly It's been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award-winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane's telenovela-esque life-from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1Īnd, the Industrial Revolution would take another seventy years to really kick in. The first fossil had NOT been discovered yet, and wouldn’t be discovered for another thirty‑nine years. These colonies had their own armies (called Provincial Armies), which were different from the Royal Army of Britain-and these Provincial Armies were often used to fight off the Indians and the French as the colonies expanded. ![]() This means humans knew about planets and space (despite never leaving our atmosphere).Īmerica had been discovered 240 years earlier! Enough time for many cities to be pretty well established despite people calling them “Colonies”. Isaac Newton came up with the law of universal gravitation forty‑five years earlier. ![]() So let me put things in perspective here before we all lose interest.What does 1732 mean? Well: Very often because I’m not familiar with the historical events around that date and (in my ignorance) I get angry and blame it on the text. However.the problem I have with this, is that whenever I read anything that starts with a date, I immediately lose interest. ![]() Alright, George Washington was born in 1732. ![]() ![]() In the 1950s, Olga supports Ferdinand’s teen rebellion-he reads Brecht and wears American-style blue jeans-and she tells him stories about Herbert’s adventures. Olga continues teaching through both world wars, and in her 60s, at the end of WWII, she flees eastern Germany for Heidelberg, where she takes up work as a seamstress and befriends Ferdinand, the young son of the primary family for whom she works. ![]() Olga becomes a teacher and Herbert joins the army, serving in the Battle of Waterberg in 1904 Africa, and in 1914 he sets off to explore the Arctic. She becomes friends with Herbert Schroder, and by the time they’re in secondary school, she falls in love with him. Orphaned as a young girl, Olga Rinke is taken in reluctantly by her chilly paternal grandmother in Prussia. Schlink ( The Reader) returns with a nuanced portrait of an ordinary German woman who comes of age at the turn of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I was out shopping and had to step outside for air,” Blackwood wrote in a follow-up tweet. the magic of books can take you anywhere in the world!!!” “It’s nice to remember it’s not always what you see in front of you. “Thank you for being the epitome of complete enlightenment with your girlish nature to inspire me to read Within These Wicked Walls,” she wrote. 21, she took to Instagram to share that she’s been reading Lauren Blackwood’s Within These Wicked Walls - a brand-new book recommended by none other than Reese Witherspoon, as the October pick for Reese’s Book Club. They say readers make great writers, right? Well, it looks like Spears is taking that advice to heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Coming out of the limbo,” Spears wrote on Instagram, the book’s slain protagonist “has a decision to make … greet the same people who murdered her or create a whole new life.” She’s taken to social media to share everything from her French Polynesian vacation and early Christmas decorating to her latest creative endeavor: a murder novel that seems to borrow themes from Spears’ life. In the wake of Britney Spears’ big conservatorship win (her father, Jamie, was removed from controlling her estate), the “Toxic” singer has been embracing simple pleasures and new activities. ![]() ![]() The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth. ![]() Even Violet seems to love her little brother. Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well. Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. ![]() An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Ī tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared.īlythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.īut in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Rodin served a long and difficult apprenticeship. ![]() Refused entrance to the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, Rodin escaped the rigid Neoclassical training that still dominated its curriculum in the mid-1850s, but forfeited the early success that École graduates were ordinarily assured. ![]() His early instruction was provided by the “Petit École” (the École Impériale Spéciale de Dessin et de Mathématiques), a school for the training of decorative artists, where he acquired a thorough grounding in the traditions of French eighteenth-century art, and by informal studies of anatomical structure under the tutelage of Antoine-Louis Barye, the French Romantic sculptor, best known for his animal subjects. The son of an inspector in the Paris Préfecture de Police and a former seamstress, Auguste Rodin grew up in a working-class district of Paris known as the Mouffetard. ![]() |