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![]() ![]() ![]() Alexandra (❻aba¿), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales¿s best friend Fruity Metcalfe. ![]() Cynthia (❼immie¿) married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon¿s determination to control every aspect of his daughters¿ lives ¿ including the money that was rightfully theirs ¿ led them one by one into revolt against their father.The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. ![]()
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A coney island of the mind5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() I would paint a different kind of Paradiso in which the people would be naked as they always are. A perfect example of this heady brew would be this excerpt from poem #13: Employing open elastic lines that often seesaw across the page, Ferlinghetti's verse is a unique combination of Whitmanesque proclamation and Dionysian celebration, where a deep love for life and art is interlaced with call for the human race to finally begin living up to its potential. The reason Coney Island of the Mind has held up so well is that it also marks the first full flowering of Ferlinghetti's considerable poetic gifts. Along with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Ferlinghetti's classic helped lay the artistic foundation for the counterculture movements of the 50s, 60s and beyond, to the point where even today it's a standard entry point for many wishing to explore the serious literary underground.īut it's far more that just a cultural signpost. Raw sales, though, only tell part of the story. With roughly a million copies in print, few poetry collections come anywhere close to matching its readership. As a social phenomenon Coney Island of the Mind is truly remarkable. ![]()
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Glitch by heather anastasiu5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Try AbeBooks Description The battle is all but over, and all hope seems to be lost. ![]() As Zoe struggles to answer these questions for herself, her relationship with Adrien becomes complicated by his own ethical questions about his ability to see the future. Glitch Trilogy English By (author) Heather Anastasiu List price: US19.99 Currently unavailable See our Closure FAQs Add to wishlist AbeBooks may have this title (opens in new window). The more time she spends there though, the more it becomes clear that divisions lurk just below the surface – about what the Resistance should be willing to do to win and even what winning would look like. She’s quickly swept into a war academy where glitchers are trained to use their powers to fight for the resistance. This book picks up almost exactly where Glitch left off, with Zoe joining the resistance now that she’s free from the link. So now that those who haven’t read Glitch have left…. Override is the sequel to Glitch, so this description contains some unavoidable spoilers that mean you’ll probably want to skip the review if you haven’t read the first book. Review Summary: An incredibly impressive sophomore novel, with great pacing, interesting ethical questions, and very cool characters but a slightly anti-climatic ending. ![]() |