![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, she’s scaling towers, fighting enemy soldiers, and serving her kingdom just as she’s always dreamed she would. So when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter’s magic, Meira decides to go after it herself. Training to be a warrior-and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king, Mather - she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again. Orphaned as an infant during Winter’s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the Winterians’ general, Sir. Now, the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since. Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sue is stung to learn about Jude’s previous marriage, however, so she goes through with her marriage to Phillotson. Jude loves Sue passionately but Sue’s own feelings are less clear. Sue soon gets engaged to Phillotson, but her relationship with Jude also grows stronger and the two cousins become very close. He gets Sue a job with Phillotson, who has also failed to be accepted at a university and is a schoolteacher again. He immediately falls in love with her, though he tries to resist his feelings. While in Christminster Jude meets his intelligent, religiously agnostic cousin Sue Bridehead. ![]() At first he is enthralled by the place but he soon finds he cannot enter the university without wealth and social stature. Arabella moves to Australia and Jude finally makes his way to Christminster. Arabella pretends she is pregnant and tricks the honorable Jude into marrying her, but the marriage soon falls apart. Jude starts teaching himself classical languages and learning stonemasonry work, but he is distracted from his studies by Arabella Donn, a vain, sensual young woman. ![]() He is inspired in this dream by his old teacher, Richard Phillotson, who left with similar ambitions when Jude was a child. Jude Fawley is a poor orphan raised by his great-aunt, but he dreams of studying at the university in Christminster, a nearby town. Jude the Obscure takes place in Wessex, England in the Victorian era. ![]() ![]() ![]() EdmundĮdmund has matured significantly since the first book, no longer petty and jealous. Lucy is very sure of herself, with a strong moral compass that guides what she does and how she lives. She has the most faith out of all of her siblings, which means she is able to see Aslan when the rest of them cannot. Lucy is the youngest of the Pevensie children, a kind and gentle child. He fights for the Narnians and the rights because he believes it is the right thing to do, even if it means fighting his own people. He is similar to Peter in his chivalrous, being taught of the tales of Old Narnia by his nurse growing up. ![]() ![]() CaspianĬaspian is a Prince and heir to the throne of his people until his uncle betrays him and he is forced to flee. After the events of Prince Caspian, he cannot return to Narnia, as he is grown up and must learn to live in his own world. However, Peter is stubborn and often head strong. He is styled around the ideals of the old Christian knights, chivalrous and brave, he fights for honour and for what he thinks is right. Peter is the eldest of the Penvensie children and the High King of Narnia. Written by Anthony Gliozzo and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() This man who spends his life drawing elephants was trained as an abstract painter and once had a studio in Montparnasse section of Paris. Bald at the crown, his ring of remaining hair stands out in recalcitrant tufts. He is a slender man, neither tall nor short, with cheerful blue eyes and an easy smile. ![]() “Look,” de Brunhoff said, “here they are as Fred and Ginger.” According to de Brunhoff’s brand of phylogeny, it seems perfectly plausible that a pair of pachyderms weighing in at three or four tons apiece should appear as lithe and nimble as Astaire and Rogers.ĭe Brunhoff exudes an infectious enthusiasm as he leads the tour through Babar’s imaginary forest. In an earlier series of illustrations, Babar and Celeste are pictured as Hollywood stars. history, portrays Babar crossing the Delaware. ![]() Yet another in the same series, celebrating important moments in U.S. One of the latter depicts a stern-faced Babar and wife, Celeste, in a playful spoof of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” A watercolor for a forthcoming calendar shows Celeste as a suffragette. The walls are plastered with renderings of Babar, some in de Brunhoff’s preferred medium of watercolor and others framed as posters. ![]() There are no trees, just a wonderful antique quilt draped over a window seat and a suitably worn Oriental rug on the floor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like most authors of historical fiction, her stories are often skewed towards one perspective - here it is in defence and admiration of Catherine de Medici - but she covers all the important events of the biographies behind her books.Ĭatherine de Medici, who was the power behind the throne of France for many years and has gained an (in)famous reputation as a poisoner and witch, is here shown as a young girl, neglected wife, powerless queen and possessive mother. Show More occasionally romanticised but always readable. ![]() ![]() Without getting into spoiler territory, she has her own storyline that addresses topics of racism and abuse of Black women. Nella (T’Shan Williams) is a major character in this limited series and she’s one of the Foxworth servants. The topic of race is subtly addressed in Flowers in the Attic: The Origin. However, there are traces of who she’ll become because of her marriage. ![]() Olivia was even involved in the fight for women to get the right to vote. She was also very outspoken and opinionated prior to her marriage. Olivia is an unconventional woman of the time, not just because she’s unmarried, but because she’s a partner in her father’s business. It addresses some issues that people face during the early to mid-1900s (and still now). Surprisingly, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin isn’t just confined to the drama that exists within the Foxworth mansion. (Image credit: Lifetime) It Deals With Issues Of Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, And Other Important Topics ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song is a moving four-hour, two-part series from executive producer, host and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher. In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was hung in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. in English Literature from Clare College at Cambridge in 1979, where he is also an Honorary Fellow.Ī former chair of the Pulitzer Prize board, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and serves on a wide array of boards, including the New York Public Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and The Studio Museum of Harlem. in History, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. A native of Piedmont, West Virginia, Gates earned his B.A. Gates was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and in 1998 he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. ![]() from his alma mater, the University of Cambridge. ![]() He is a recipient of a number of honorary degrees, most recently a Litt.D. He has also produced and hosted more than 20 documentary films, most recently Making Black America on PBS.įinding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is heading into its ninth season. Henry Louis Gates: The Black Church Was Born Fighting Anti-Black Racism Morning Joe MSNBC - YouTube Professor and writer The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our. ![]() ![]() ![]() Four years ago her father arranged things so that her betrothed though she changed her mind about him and left and she was convinced he left her k. Show More protagonist Margaret (great name right? *wink*). Yep, definitely another great book for Miralee, and another fantastic addition to the Love Finds You series! I can't wait to read what she comes out with next! :o) Several things are scattered through the story that are actual historical events.although, I can't let the cat out of the bag on that one, or I really would be spoiling the story! I imagine that makes this book even more special to her on a whole different level. (Don't worry.this is not a spoiler.) Miralee shares what inspired her to write this book, most of it coming from her own family history. Probably the most interesting aspect of the whole book is tucked away at the very end. While the romance scenes in the book are small in number, they were enough to steal my breath away! I truly had no idea which man Margaret would choose, even after going back in forth in my own mind with who the lucky fellow would be. ![]() Instead, she perseveres, and moves on with her life, both with her job as a teacher and her budding relationship with Andrew. That'd be enough to make me want to crawl in a hole somewhere and die, honestly. ![]() Show More love, and then, her father, is simply heartbreaking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trust me sang in her blood, and she could look in the Beast's face and see only that he looked at her hopefully.” At that moment she knew that this Beast would not have sent such misery as her father's illness to harry or to punish, knew too that the Beast would keep his promise to her, and to herself she made another promise to him, but of that promise she did not yet herself know. It had been a welcome invader the first time, only moments before but already it had become a constituent of her blood, intrinsic to the marrow of her bones, and she heard again the salamander's last words to her: Trust me. But as she felt the heat again running through her, she knew at once it bore a different quality. ![]() From that she pitied him so greatly that she cupped her hands again to hold a little of the salamander's heat, not for serenity but for the warmth of friendship. “She looked up at once, pierced to the heart by the sorrow in his voice and knowing, from the question and the sorrow together, that he had no notion of what had just happened to her, nor why. ![]() ![]() Is the Shadow and Bone series based on a book? Want to learn more about how Bardugo’s books inspired each season of the show? Read on to find out more about Shadow and Bone’s literary origins. If you’re captivated by it, you might want to spend more time there, with the books that served as inspiration for the series: Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels, which introduce Alina, her best friend Mal (Archie Renaux) and the powerful Darkling (Ben Barnes), and expand outward. ![]() It’s an intricate universe, with its own history, geography and political intrigue. ![]() The world that Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) inhabits in Shadow and Bone is full of magic, populated by characters who can manipulate the elements, conjuring sun, shadow, wind. ![]() |