5/9/2023 0 Comments Dostoevsky undergroundAccused of publishing materials critiquing the government, Dostoevsky was exiled to Siberia for five years, beginning in 1849, and his experiences there informed his character Raskolnikov’s exile in his novel Crime and Punishment. He also showed signs of epilepsy, greatly interrupting his professional and personal life. Dostoevsky began a career as an engineer and, in his free time, wrote and translated. His mother died of tuberculosis when Dostoevsky was a young man. While he was there, it is believed his father was killed by serfs on his own plantation. A sickly but intelligent child, Dostoevsky was sent to a military engineering academy, which he hated. His father Mikhail was a military doctor who later secured a government position and an acquired rank of nobility. One of eight children, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born to a family lineage of middle-class businessmen and petty nobles.
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Marvel's Infinity Saga is a ten-year series of 22 interwoven superhero films that culminated in the three-hour extravaganza Avengers: Endgame.Īnd with this accomplishment Marvel has resurrected the epic genre for a cinematic age.įrequently described as “epic” for its sheer scale and ambition, the Saga is also epic in this literary sense, and it represents a unique moment in American culture.Įpic poems bring to mind ancient works like Gilgamesh, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Mahābhārata and Ramayana, Beowulf and the Song of Roland, to name a few. Tony Stark/Iron Man in a scene from Captain America: Civil War “A fast-moving mystery, a whodunit written with ease.A remarkable book." Time's All-Time 100 Best Non-Fiction Books “Perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history.” Gene Roberts, former managing editor of The New York Times “Maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time." Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post and toppled the President. In the most devastating political detective story of the century, two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.īeginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward kept the tale of conspiracy and the trail of dirty tricks coming - delivering the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon’s scandalous downfall. 5/8/2023 0 Comments The guardian jeffrey konvitzWhen a beautiful model, Alison Parker (CRISTINA RAINES), rents an apartment in a gloomy New York brownstone, little does she realize that an unspeakable horror awaits her behind its doors… a mysterious gateway to hell. “There must forever be a guardian at the gate from hell… she was young, she was beautiful. ** Click Here to Purchase The Sentinel on Blu-ray from ** Writer(s): Jeffrey Konvitz (novel) Michael Winner and Jeffrey Konvitz (screenplay)Ĭast: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, Jose Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Eli Wallachįeatures: 3 Audio Commentaries, Interview, Theatrical Trailer, Still Galleries The Movie | Special Features | Video Quality | Audio Quality | Overall The Blu-ray released by Shout Factory has above average video and audio transfers and a fine selection of bonus material. 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He is thrilled to have any opportunity to get away from his awful brothers. Although his father refuses, Christian offers to accompany William instead. Sir William Corbett has come to the Brandon keep, hoping Christian’s father will help him rescue his sister who is stuck in an abusive relationship. His intelligence, wit, and agility earned him the nickname the Crow. His brothers treated him roughly and quite violently, and so despite his soft and beautiful appearance, Christian is strong, clever, and able to look out for himself. Growing up as the youngest of seven boys, Sir Christian Brandon has long ago learned how to take care of himself. Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance | Amazon UK 5/8/2023 0 Comments Dracula's guestShe gets waylaid by the Count at the train station where he abducts her to his home in Transylvania. Bram accepts and leaves to begin his year but Elizabeth is rebellious and runs off, presumably to find Bram in Scotland. The Admiral is not impressed with Bram and insists he and Elizabeth observe a year's separation to test their love before he'll give his blessing to their marriage. He works in a real estate company and has just given his career a boost by finding a home for the firm's new client, Count Dracula. The young man is Bram Stoker and he has a relationship with Admiral Murray's daughter, Elizabeth in Victorian England. He swears to get her out and the scene cuts to six months earlier. The story opens showing a young man finding a young woman he knows behind bars, having been imprisoned and raped. It was released direct to video in August 2008 and is loosely based on Bram Stoker's short story " Dracula's Guest". Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (also known as just Dracula's Guest) is a 2008 film that was written and directed by Michael Feifer. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement they had one daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Among the general public and specifically among feminists, Wollstonecraft's life has received much more attention than her writing because of her unconventional, and often tumultuous, personal relationships. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight due to complications from childbirth, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. 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Jokaste remarks to Guion that the King would be pleased if they were to call the slave 'Damen'. Jokaste (an Akielon courtesan) and Adrastus (the Royal Slave Keeper) introduce a muscled and physically imposing man (who is heavily bound and restrained) to Guion - as a personal gift to the Prince of Vere. SECTION WARNING: This section is excessively detailed.Ĭouncillor Guion of Vere is in the Kingdom of Akielos, receiving twenty-four slaves as gifts from the Akielon King to the Regent of Vere. SPOILER WARNING: This section has important plot information. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.įor Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.īeautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. |