After the film debuted in the United States on October 2, 1992, it received acclaim from critics. Of Mice and Men took part in the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, where Sinise was nominated for the Palme d'Or award, given to the director of the best-featured film. The film explores themes of discrimination, loneliness, and the American Dream, as well as the desire for a place to call home. Its plot centers on George and the intellectually disabled Lennie, two farm workers who travel together and dream of one day owning their own land. Directed and produced by Gary Sinise, the film features Sinise as George Milton, alongside John Malkovich as Lennie Small, with Casey Siemaszko as Curley, John Terry as Slim, Ray Walston as Candy, Joe Morton as Crooks, and Sherilyn Fenn as Curley's wife. Of Mice and Men is a 1992 American period drama western film based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella of the same name.
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For the past thirty years, The Conquest of the Incas has remained the most influential book for Inca scholars. “The bible for historians and archaeologists studying the final days of the Inca. the deeper wonder of the conquest and the deeper horror of its results” ( Washington Post). This authoritative, wide-ranging account, grounded in meticulous research and firsthand knowledge and told from the viewpoints of both protagonists, “keeps all the complex issues to the fore. The Conquest of the Incas is the definitive history of this civilization’s overthrow, from the invasion by Pizarro’s small gang of conquistadors and the Incas’ valiant attempts to expel the invaders to the destruction of the Inca realm, the oppression of its people, and the modern discoveries of Machu Picchu and the lost city of Vilcabamba. In 1532, the magnificent Inca empire was the last great civilization still isolated from the rest of humankind. It reads like the most skillful novel.” - Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature Combining rigorous historical research and profound analysis with stylistic elegance, this work allows the reader to appreciate the tragic and fabulous history of the Incan empire in all its richness and diversity. “Distinguished by an extraordinary empathy, a feeling of one’s way into the minds of the sixteenth-century Spaniards and Indians. No birth attendant was present, though if her throat became dry during labor, her husband, Nao Kao, was permitted to bring her a cup of hot water, as long as he averted his eyes from her body. She remains proud to this day that she delivered each of them into her own hands, reaching between her legs to ease out the head and then letting the rest of the body slip out onto her bent forearms. Even if Foua had been a less fastidious housekeeper, her newborn babies wouldn't have gotten dirty, since she never let them actually touch the floor. She used a bamboo dustpan, which she had also made herself, to collect the feces of the children who were too young to defecate outside, and emptied its contents in the forest. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled it regularly with water to keep the dust down and swept it every morning and evening with a broom she had made of grass and bark. If Lia Lee had been born in the highlands of northwest Laos, where her parents and twelve of her brothers and sisters were born, her mother would have squatted on the floor of the house that her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN (Chapter 1) Birth and made accessible, even in its own land, to the general reader. The lapse of nearly seven hundred years, and the changes which the centuries have worked, alike in language and in thought, would have naturally operated to render any work unfamiliar, still more so when that work was composed in a foreign tongue but, indeed, it is only within the present century that the original text of the Parzival has been collated from the MSS. IN PRESENTING, FOR THE FIRST time, to English readers the greatest work of Germany’s greatest mediæval poet, a few words of introduction, alike for poem and writer, may not be out of place. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.Ĭopyright © 2015 by Wolfram von Eschenbachĭistribution by Pronoun TABLE OF CONTENTSĮXCURSUS B.RELATION OF WOLFRAM TO CHRÊTIENĮXCURSUS C.THE INTERPRETATION AND RELIGIOUS TEACHING OF THE POEMĮXCURSUS D.THE WORKS OF WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH PARZIVAL Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. This book is a work of fiction its contents are wholly imagined.Īll rights reserved. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author. She was a descendant of the Dutch, and already had a length of issues behind her family tree. I’ve known the lengths both human and animal would go to just to survive, and Dewi Ayu becoming a whore just to be able to grab a chance in living a life of luxury to escape the concentration camp is just one story in millions of stories.ĭewi Ayu had a rough history from the start. But she has escaped death, and survived through a war in the Dutch, the Second World war, and Indonesa’s independence. A whore isn’t the perfect “Mary Sue character”, and Dewi Ayu has her flaws. Dewi Ayu is described to be a very beautiful lady at first glance, although she has a lot of wit that comes with the beauty. The story follows the story of Dewi Ayu, a whore–yes, a whore–and how both her and the characters interconnected to her fell into a tragedy. Nominated for the Man Brooker awards and being a close finalist, this book is both quality and quantity. Beauty is a Wound revolves around the history of Indonesia, with a touch of fantasy. This line has promoted a sense of mystery, and a sense of suspense, and it has propelled me on the book. Just like Herman Melville’s opening line from Moby Dick, Beauty is a Wound has captured me as a reader right from the very start. “One afternoon on a weekend in March, Dewi Ayu rose from her grave after being dead for twenty one years.”īeauty is a Wound. This entry was posted on Monday, March 10th, 2014 at 8:00 AM and is filed under Books, Fantasy, pics, Science Fiction. Tags: Books, Centipede Press, pics, The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers In fact, I still have a couple left at $75 a pop (first come first serve), which is a hefty discount over the $295 offering price on pristine copies… But this edition is so over-the-top I couldn’t pass up a chance to pick up copies at a bargain price. Plus I’m not a big fan of post-first limiteds in general. I didn’t think I needed another Anubis Gates, since I have the PBO, the UK first, the Ziesing hardback, and the facsimile manuscript included with the ultralimited edition of the Berlyene bibliography. The entire assemblage is only a hair thinner than the traycased edition of George R. The thing is ginormous, resting in a two-part red velvet slipcase which houses the book and an accordion portfolio of the color art plates in the book, and includes an appendix of deleted scenes from the original manuscript and a fold-out map of 1810 London. First edition hardback thus, a Fine copy save two flaws (the slipcase keyhole cutout is about 1/4″ misaligned between the two halves, and it lacks the signature page) bound in decorated red and black velvet with a lenticular image embedded in the front cover, in a Fine slipcase. I recently got in some imperfect copies the Centipede Press limited edition of The Anubis Gates, and it’s completely off the hook: Between anomalous frogs, a homicidal ex-boyfriend, and Patrick's own hangups, Whiskey's going to need all of his patience and Patrick's going to need to find the best of himself before these two men ever see Clear Water. But Whiskey, who works with real freaks of nature, thinks all Patrick needs is a little help to see the absolute beauty inside his spastic self, and Whiskey is all about volunteering. Patrick needs to get his life together and Whiskey wants to help but Patrick is not entirely convinced it's doable. When the worst day of Patrick's life ends with Whiskey saving it, Patrick and Whiskey find themselves sharing company and an impossibly small berth on the world's tackiest houseboat. Meet Wes "Whiskey" Keenan he's a field biologist wondering if it's time to settle down. Patrick's been trying desperately to transform himself, and the results have been so spectacular, they've almost killed him. Meet Patrick Cleary party boy, loser, and spaz. The kit offers a decal for the instrument panel. (Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-655-5976-04 Photo Helmut Grosse) Like our model this Stuka carried two 37mm anti-tank gun pods underneath its wings. Ground crewmen wind the starter on Rudel’s Ju-87G-2. Lightly dry-brush the cockpit sidewalls with RLM-02, light gray, to open up what might otherwise be a “black hole.” Use paper strips stained with coffee as seat belts. Start by painting the cockpit and gunner/radio operator’s position with RLM-66, black gray. While the color won’t be absolutely correct, painting the radio set, gunner’s seat, pilot’s seat and stick FS-37031, aircraft interior black, will enhance the details. The model depicts an early long-winged version of the dive bomber and comes with two underwing 37mm “tank-busting” cannons. 1641) of the Junkers Ju-87G-1 Stuka was first released in 2002 and is packed with detail. Building Rudel's Tank-Busting Stuka CloseĪcademy’s 1/72nd-scale kit (no. With MAC season awards handed out just after the conclusion of the event, the Flashes very own Ben MacLean has been named MAC Freshman of the Year, following last year's winner in Jordan Gilkison. "I am proud of how the battled today to get within a few strokes, but our mistakes caught up to us after 12th hole," Mills said. Ultimately, the Huskies of Northern Illinois would claim their first MAC title since 1985, staving off the comeback effort despite being out-shot by the next three teams in Ball State, Toledo and Kent State.Ĭade Breitenstine was consistently excellent down the stretch, carding a 70 in each of the final two rounds to aid in Kent State's comeback effort, and earning himself a spot on the All-Tournament team. We are very frustrated with our inconsistencies this year, but we will bounce back from this." "We just made too many mistakes and seemed to struggle late each day on the back nine," KSU head coach Jon Mills said. "We didn't do a good job adapting to the conditions and it showed in our result. Athens, ALA… After trailing the leader by as many as ten strokes after two rounds of this year's MAC Championships, the Kent State men's golf team made a furious comeback bid, cutting that lead down to as little as two before running out of gas down the stretch and finishing this year's event in fourth. One is about scaring you with monsters and ambiance, and the other is about delighting you with goofs and wordplay. You might think that horror and comedy are natural adversaries, as far as genres go. Because you can't get murdered while laughing, right? Here are a few of the best books that the horror-comedy genre has to offer. But I'm also, unfortunately, an enormous chicken who is very easily scared.This poorly thought out combination of character traits has driven me to seek out those oh-so-rare books that manage to walk the line between creepy and funny. My favorite thing in the world is to curl up on a rainy autumn afternoon and think about demons. I'll be honest with you, fellow book-lovers: on September 1st of every year I burn all my bathing suits, give away all my fun beach reads, and build myself a fort made of plastic skeletons and Shirley Jackson novels to hide in until November 1st. |