![]() ![]() Following an indiscretion, Candide is cast out into the world which according to Pangloss is 'the best of all possible worlds'. Young nobleman Candide lives a sheltered and comfortable life under the tutorship of the ridiculous Dr Pangloss who espouses the prevailing 18th-century philosophy of Optimism. This classic of French literature features an introduction by Dr Marine Ganofsky. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. ![]() Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. This classic of French literature has been a bestseller for over two hundred years. ![]() Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. ![]()
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![]() As a result, it is possible to easily replace it with all sorts of different ideological schemes. Although he takes a clear stance in favor of Christianity as a valid foundation for morality, his definition of religious perception is flexible. Instead, he supports a moral-based art able to appeal to everyone and not just the privileged few. By gaining awareness of each other’s feelings we can successfully practice empathy and ultimately unite to further mankind’s collective well-being.įurthermore, Tolstoy firmly denies that pleasure is art’s sole purpose. He believes that art is a means of communicating emotion, with the aim of promoting mutual understanding. Tolstoy’s theory has a lot of charming aspects. ![]() How can we define art? What is authentic art and what is good art? Leo Tolstoy answered these questions in “What is Art?” (1897), his most comprehensive essay on the theory of art. ![]() Leo Tolstoy in a Ploughed Field, Ilya Repin, 1887, Smithsonian ![]() ![]() (3) an emphasis on personalities, situations, and story, rather than detailed science concepts (2) a science-based storyline where technology has advanced considerably, but the only way to transcend Einstein’s limits is to use “magic”, a form of human mental energy originally developed through forced genetic manipulation, but now practiced by a guild of Mages as a service to humanity (except for the aforementioned bad actors) ![]() (1) a future human society which is refreshingly positive overall (though certainly with its share of bad actors) ![]() Glynn Stewart’s Damien series (Starship’s Mage, Hand of Mars, and now Voice of Mars) continues, with this third installment, to be an entertaining and at times thought-provoking series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though, you know what they say… curiosity kills the cat. ![]() I knew it couldn’t last, but I was curious about him. But after weeks of wearing me down, I finally agreed to one date only-my first after twenty years of being with my high school sweetheart. He made me laugh yet I was adamant that because of his age, we could only be friends. Nevertheless, that’s how I met Ford, and we started messaging. Another point that bears repeating-it wasn’t supposed to. Those nicknamed Cunnilingus King were told they’d go straight to the top for consideration. So, without my knowledge, she set up a profile for me on a popular dating site-one that invited men ages twenty-one to twenty-seven to apply for a date. My best friend decided I needed to start dating again. ![]() Did I mention young? If I did, it bears repeating. When I first encountered Ford Donovan, I had no idea who he was…well, other than the obvious. A new, sexy standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland. ![]() ![]() ![]() I will remain immune to Hunter Fitzpatrick’s charm.Įven at the cost of losing everything I have.Įven at the cost of burning down his kingdom. It’s not like I’m in danger of falling in love with the appallingly gorgeous, charismatic gazillionaire who happens to be one of Boston’s most eligible bachelors. I needed the public endorsement Hunter needed a nanny.īesides, what’s six months in the grand scheme of things? ![]() ![]() Little does she know, that’s not the only pipe I’ll be laying…īut the deal was too sweet to walk away from. The virginal archer is supposed to babysit my ass while I learn to take my place in Royal Pipelines, my family’s oil company. Now my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of Boston’s nerdiest girl alive, Sailor Brennan. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds. It was just one of those unexplainable things. I didn’t mean to star in a sex tape, okay? ![]() ![]() ![]() She followed his good advice, and her next work, L'Opoponax, was published to great acclaim, winning the Prix Médicis for 1964. If not, he made a definite offer for her next book. Lindon wisely advised her to wait a little longer, though, if she wanted to find another publisher for it, he would issue it at once. She sent him a novel called La Méchanique ("Mechanics" – a true nouveau roman title). Robbe-Grillet read one of her early " textes" and Lindon wrote her a kind letter of rejection, but asked to see whatever else she wrote. ![]() Wittig was deeply influenced by the films of Jean-Luc Godard and by the nouveau roman of the 1960s (now fallen into disrepute). She started writing early, but received the usual formal rejection slips before attracting the interest of Jérôme Lindon at Editions de Minuit, a celebrated avant-garde publishing house with an impressive list including Pierre Klossowski, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jean Echenoz. Her parents, to escape the Nazi regime, moved to Rouergue in the Aveyron, where Monique spent an idyllic childhood before the family moved to Paris. ![]() ![]() Monique Wittig was born in 1935 at Dannemarie on the Upper Rhine. ![]() ![]() The trust quietly acquired the six-acre estate in early 2019, paying $570,000. And while Heard’s name does not appear on the deed, research turns up multiple clues that all point to one particular property, a house currently owned by a mysterious trust with clear links to Heard. ![]() Amber Heard, the glamorous Hollywood film actress who once dated Elon Musk, and who during her 2015-2017 marriage to Johnny Depp shared a vast portfolio of lavish homes around the world, now mainly resides in Yucca Valley - a somewhat unheralded town in California’s Mojave Desert, 120 miles east of Los Angeles.ĭirt was eager to learn more about the Yucca Valley digs. After confirming her full name is indeed Amber Laura Heard, the “Aquaman” star revealed to the general public that she currently resides in Yucca Valley, California. ![]() ![]() Heard defamation trial, perhaps one of the most unexpected tidbits was dropped during the very first few seconds of Amber Heard’s opening testimony. Of all the bizarre information to emerge from the media circus that is the ongoing Depp v. ![]() ![]() October 1964: The 1964 World Series pitted the established Yankees against the upstart St. Every hit on and off the field crackles across the page “in such an enjoyable, interesting, and informative manner that a reader needn’t be a baseball fan to appreciate the book” ( Library Journal). A nation in transition is gripped by a pennant race for the ages: the Boston Red Sox, led by Ted Williams’s unearthly bat skills, versus the New York Yankees and Joe DiMaggio’s legendary heroics. Summer of ’49: In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Halberstam brings to stirring life the unforgettable season that cemented baseball as America’s pastime. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Halberstam, preeminent chronicler of the American experience, focuses his meticulous narrative gifts on some of Major League Baseball’s most iconic moments, training for the Olympics, and a remarkable profile of hoops legend Michael Jordan. ![]() Four New York Times bestsellers by a “remarkable” Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist capture and celebrate America’s passion for sports ( The Seattle Times). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes.And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. ![]() “An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. ![]() ![]() ![]() Douglas Kenyon has chosen 42 essays that have appeared in the bimonthly journal Atlantis Risingto provide readers with an overview of the core positions of key thinkers in the field of ancient mysteries and alternative history.
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