![]() ![]() Fitzgerald’s reaction to the jacket was captured in a 1924 letter to editor Maxwell Perkins, “For Christ’s sake, don’t give anyone that dust jacket you’re saving for me. Designed by artist Francis Cugat, the dust jacket echoes the romantic tone of the novel, with hints of loss and opulence at its core, showing a pair of feminine eyes, with two nude figures in her irises, gazing over a Coney Island carnival. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”, with the nearly impossible to find first printing dust jacket, showing the lowercase “j” in “Jay Gatsby” on the rear flap hand-corrected in ink, indicative of the first printing. Rare first edition, first printing of one of the most desired books in the history of literature, F. ![]() Exceedingly Rare First Printing Dust Jacket of “The Great Gatsby” - Scarce Jacket Houses First Printing of the Classic Novel ![]()
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![]() ![]() Joyce's teachings on the "Battlefield of the Mind" give a new dimension to how the "Words of life" can transform your life. With notes, commentary, and previously unpublished insights by Joyce Meyer, this Bible is packed with features specifically designed for helping you deal with thousands of thoughts you have every day and focus your mind to think the way God thinks. If you struggle with negative thoughts, take heart! The Battlefield of the Mind Bible will help you win these all-important battles through clear, practical application of God's Word to your life. Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger, and feelings of condemnation-all these are attacks on the mind. ![]() The Battlefield of the Mind Bible helps you to connect the truths of Joyce's all-time bestselling book, Battlefield of the Mind, to the Bible, and change your life by changing your thinking. ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess that explains why they live in a castle and the townsfolk fear them? But that in itself doesn’t necessarily mean they’re vampires either. They walk about in daylight just fine, don’t drink anyone’s blood, there’s no clue that Stevenson’s hinting they’re vampires at all. Yes, it’s Gothic - crumbling castle in the mountains, check, very atmospheric - but horror and vampires - what?! Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1887 short story is so damn subtle, finding out from other sources that this is supposedly a Gothic horror and that the aristocratic family were vampires (or something) completely threw me. Nothing happens, then the narrator falls for Olalla but they can’t be together and then it’s over. The son is a bit of a simpleton, the mother is quietly crazy (until she isn’t), and the daughter, Olalla, is eerily beautiful. ![]() The family who own the house are aristocrats who’ve fallen on hard times. ![]() A man is invited to a dilapidated castle in the Spanish mountains to recover from an illness or something. ![]() ![]() In the chapters 2, 3, and 5 of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, the main character and narrator Christopher Boone is introduced as a teenager with a very unique, precise and straightforward way of thinking. The play ends with him passing the exam and the realisation that he can do anything he puts his mind to. Chapter Summaries and Analysis created by Mr. ![]() Christopher has difficulty settling into his new life in London and returns to Swindon to take his A-level Maths exam. Ed Boone and Judy Boone get into an argument because Judy is sick and tired of caring after Christopher due to his. ![]() ![]() He gets so scared of his father that he decides to run away from home and live at his mother's house in London. He can no longer live with him and so he bravely travels to London to find his mother. Christopher has an ongoing conflict with his father, after learning that he in fact was the one who killed Wellington. He also discovers that it was his father who killed the dog.Ĭhristopher feels that his father is a murderer, who he cannot trust. In doing so he discovers that his mother is not dead as his father had told him, but alive and well, living in London. Despite his father, Ed, warning Christopher not to get involved, Christopher decides to investigate the death of the dog. The play opens with Christopher discovering a dead dog in his neighbour, Mrs Shears', garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time follows the story of Christopher Boone, a 15 year old, who is exceptional at Maths but finds people confusing. ![]() The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)- Plot summary ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the earlier Tortured Souls, an account of bizarre–and agonizing–transformations, Infernal Parade is tightly focused, intensely imagined, and utterly unlike anything else you will ever read. This astonishing novella, Infernal Parade, perfectly encapsulates Barker’s unique abilities. His body of work constitutes a great and varied contribution to modern popular culture. From the beginning of his distinguished career, Clive Barker has been the great visionary artist of contemporary dark fantasy, a form that Barker himself has termed “the Fantastique.” Through his many novels, stories, paintings and films, he had presented us with unforgettable images of the monstrous and the sacred, the beautiful and the grotesque. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Given he's usually left to train himself in Finding magic and do his master's job, that's probably not happening anytime soon.Watching the shop one day while his master is out drinking yet again, Tolan gets an unexpected client: a child barely old enough to walk, screaming that Tolan 'find secret', and who clings to Tolan like he's all that's left in the world.But finding secret proves to be a far greater task than Tolan ever could have guessed and leads him right into the arms of a man, and a life, that he never dared hope to find.LORD SEABOLTEighteen years ago, Goss was nearly murdered as a baby-by his own parents, who wanted to sacrifice him to strengthen the Seabolt bloodline's magic. FINDER TOLANBorn and raised in nowhere villages, having moved to more of the same, and with a worthless drunk for a master, all Tolan really wants out of life is his own shop and a steady income. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, too, the sequence in which Bertie, starving hungry (“like a python when the Zoo officials have just started to bang the luncheon gong”), repeatedly fails to find breakfast as he is confronted with one scene after another in which other people enjoy magnificent morning feasts. Such scenes as a night in which Bertie repeatedly fails to find a place to rest his head are world class hilarious. Jeeves himself has oiled off elsewhere for much of the action, but in his absence, Bertie Wooster’s ability to get into scrapes is exploited to outstanding effect. ![]() Thank You, Jeeves strikes me as one of the funniest of the Jeeves tales (quite an accolade – Ed). The cover of the Folio edition of ‘Thank You, Jeeves’ Thank You, Jeeves: hilarious set-pieces So here, without further ado, are a few additional succulent fruit, assembled by me with pleasure from Thank You, Jeeves. Indeed, I have been struck by the poverty of many self-styled treasuries of quotations when it comes to Plum’s oeuvre. More recently, in my blog How to read P G Wodehouse: a new prescription, I savoured the fruits of recent roaming of the Plum pastures and cited juicy quotations from the outstanding Ring for Jeeves. My blog How to read P G Wodehouse: a practical guidepraised Plumtopia, a P G Wodehouse specialist, for its advice on precisely this subject. “Thank You, Jeeves” is one of the funniest Jeeves and Wooster stories you could wish for – I am grinning wildly even as I write these words ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. 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She exposes the ideological desperation of the climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions of the would-be geoengineers, and the tragic defeatism of too many mainstream green initiatives. ![]() Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. It's an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn't just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. ![]() |