![]() ![]() With some slight touches of the paintbrush, Frenhofer transforms Porbus' painting such that Mary the Egyptian appears to come alive before their very eyes. The painting is of Mary of Egypt, and while Frenhofer sings her praises, he hints that the work seems unfinished. He is accompanied by the old master Frenhofer, who comments expertly on the large tableau that Porbus has just finished. Young Nicolas Poussin, as yet unknown, visits the painter Porbus in his workshop. Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu is a reflection on art, and has had an important influence on modernist artists. ![]() ![]() The work is separated into two chapters: Gillette and Catherine Lescault. It was published in Balzac's Études philosophiques in 1837 and was integrated into La Comédie humaine in 1846. It appeared again later in the same year under the title Catherine Lescault, conte fantastique. It was first published in the newspaper L'Artiste with the title Maître Frenhofer (English: Master Frenhofer) in August 1831. Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu ( English The Unknown Masterpiece) is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. ![]()
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I can’t let on that I’m here to bring him down before he can harm a hair on her pretty head.Going undercover as Posy’s new barista wasn’t my idea. There’s a murderer on the loose in New York, and he seems to spend a lot of time at Posy’s shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion dollar security company. But I managed to steal only a single kiss before I had to skip town.Now I’m back, and the tables are turned. ![]() Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. Genres: Mystery, Romance, Romantic Suspense Narrator: Joe Arden, Emma Wilder, Vanessa Edwin Published by Tuxbury Publishing LLC on December 1, 2020 ![]() ![]() Not that vampires are especially lovable.Īfter watching one too many bad–which is to say, silly–vampire movies, I turned to Debbie and asked, What if I wanted to make the worst vampire movie ever? Or at least the silliest? What’s the least likely vampire you can imagine?īefore she could answer, I burst out: A bunny!īut I didn’t make a movie. My wife, Debbie, and I, both underemployed actors with lots of time on our hands, stayed up many a night watching movies because (a) we didn’t have anywhere we needed to be in the morning, (b) we loved movies, and (c) we loved vampires. Night was when the vampire movies came on. ![]() I guess I should say too many bad vampire movies.īack in 1977, television had five channels, and movies were shown on and off throughout the day and into the night. ![]() To be exact, Bunnicula got its start from watching too many vampire movies late at night. Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition of BunniculaĪuthor's Note INTRODUCTION TO THE 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF BUNNICULAīunnicula began not from words but from pictures. Bunnicula 40th Anniversary Edition is in memory of Deborah Howe. ![]() ![]() ![]() The contents of this book offer clarification on political matters and set down certain directives relating to the revolutionary struggle for the Indonesian Republic. The book was deliberately written in Dutch for the benefit of Indonesian students in the hope that it would be well received and motivate them in their struggle for their country's independence. The second edition appeared in Tokyo in December 1925. ![]() ![]() The first edition appeared in Canton in April 1925. We are thus fortunate to have also received a copy of Naar de Republik Indonesia. Some time has passed since this publisher obtained the works of the late Tan Malaka, especially those printed and distributed abroad during the time of his expulsion from Indonesia by the Dutch colonial authorities. 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![]() ![]() ![]() But of all these, one, in particular, has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be. For every piece predicting its demise, another is announcing the arrival of some new talent: in the past few years, writers as diverse as Pankaj Mishra, William Fiennes, Suketu Mehta, Rory Stewart, and Peter Hessler have all produced masterworks that show the continuing vitality of the travel book, as well as its ability to reinvent itself for each successive generation. ![]() And yet this ancient form stubbornly refuses to die. It has recently become almost cliche to predict the extinction of travel writing in the internet and Google Earth age. Like epic poetry, but unlike the novel, the travel book has appeared spontaneously in almost all the world’s classical and medieval cultures, from the journeys of Hsuan Tsang in India and Basho in Japan, through the topographies of Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo, to the Celtic monks venturing westwards on their immortal wonder-journeys. Tales of travel take us back to man’s deepest literary roots, to the Epic of Gilgamesh and the wanderings of the Pandava brothers in the Mahabharata. Travel writing – an individual telling a story about a journey through a landscape – is one of the world’s most primitive forms of literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() With exceptional courage, Jahanara dares to challenge the bigotry and blindness at court in an effort to spare the empire from civil war, and to save her father from his bellicose son, Aurangzeb, a man whose hatred would extinguish the Islamic enlightenment from the Mughal Empire. ![]() She is soon caught between her duty to her mother’s memory, the rigid strictures imposed upon women, and a new, though forbidden, love. To escape a brutal arranged marriage, Jahanara must become the court liaison to Isa, architect of the Taj Mahal. ![]() Against scenes of unimaginable wealth and power, murderous sibling rivalries, and cruel despotism, Princess Jahanara tells the extraordinary story of how the Taj Mahal came to be, describing her own life as an agent in its creation and as a witness to the fateful events surrounding its completion. In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, consumed by grief over the death of his empress, Mumtaz Mahal, ordered the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. ![]() ![]() What can we expect from late period Cohen? All his great themes are here: death, war, religion (both Buddhism and Judaism ) and beauty. For Cohen, just because it was his swansong, it never meant it would be sung any less sweetly. ![]() Make no mistake, this is no posthumous hack job, crudely glued together for a quick buck, The Flame is a collection that shows a writer whose fire never diminished with old age, but instead continued to burn brightly. A collection of 63 poems, the lyrics from his last four albums and a miscellaneous section of entries from the notebooks he obsessively filled throughout his life, The Flame is an opportunity to explore some of the great works in the Canadian poet and songwriter’s final years. Such was Leonard Cohen’s unhurried pace, that The Flame, his final published work has been released almost a full two years to the date since the he passed away. ![]() Chris Bateman rubs shoulders with punk Flamenco singers, accountants and death as he considers Leonard Cohen’s sweet swansongĪnd slow it was, right up to the end. ![]() |