![]() ![]() In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. ![]() His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. ![]()
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![]() The exhibition, which will remain in Boston through January 3, 1988, can only be viewed by reserving a ticket through TICKETRON or the museum's Wyeth box office. and author of "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures." ![]() "Such close attention by a painter to one model over so long a period is a remarkable, if not singular, circumstance in the history of American art," writes John Wilmerding, deputy director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. ![]() He sold the works for $10 million and received national media attention unusual for an American artist. The paintings created a stir last summer when Wyeth revealed that he had been working with the model in secret for 15 years. "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures," an exihibition of 107 drawings and watercolors by the popular and controversial American artist, opens tomorrow at the Museum of Fine Arts.Įxecuted during a 15-year span from 1971 to 1985, the suite of drawings focuses exclusively on a single model, Wyeth's neighbor Helga Testorf of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The eighteenth century saw publication of Wunderliche Fata einiger Seefahrer (4 parts 1731-1743), usually known as Insel Felsenburg, by Johann Gottfried Schnabel (1692-1752). Considered a masterpiece of its time is the picaresque novel Der abenteuerliche Simplizissimus ( 1669 trans A T S Goodricke as The Adventurous Simplicissimus 1912 retrans H Weissenborn and L Macdonald 1963) by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622-1676), which contains, inter alia, a journey into a Utopia located in the centre of the Hollow Earth. The roots of German sf can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when the astronomer Johannes Kepler's Somnium ( 1634 in Latin trans into German as Traum von Mond 1898 trans E Rosen as Kepler's "Somnium" 1967) reflected, in semifictional form, on life on the Moon. There is a separate entry for Austria, with which there is a small and inevitable overlap: many books by Austrian writers were in fact published in Germany, and many Austrians have lived in Germany – some, indeed, working in the German publishing industry. ![]() This entry covers the whole of Germany, including the former GDR (East Germany). ![]() ![]() His latest book, Musicophilia, is a kaleidoscopic examination of the human response to music, and of the various ways in which that response can be altered by brain dysfunction. ![]() The disorders he describes are not necessarily obscure, but Sacks has the ability to make even common ailments seem both personal and profound. Indeed, it would be hard to name a more prolific or more eloquent admirer of neurological disease than Sacks, whose finely crafted essays about his patients and correspondents over the past four decades are like picture windows into the malfunctioning brain. ![]() It is for precisely this reason that the disorders of the nervous system inspire wonder about the nature of thought, identity, and consciousness in a way that disorders of the gastrointestinal system, for example, generally do not.īy the surgeon’s standard, Oliver Sacks-the author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars, among other books-must rank as one of his generation’s foremost neurologists. When a bit of brain tissue is lost to a stroke, infection, or some other malady, the knowledge and skills that depend upon it tend to be lost as well, often irrecoverably. ![]() While the fairness of this statement is debatable, it is true that the therapeutic armamentarium of the neurologist is rather limited. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the BrainĪ general surgeon once remarked to me that neurologists do not cure disease-they admire it. ![]() ![]() Maybe that’s why he’s so comfortable with big novels. Simmons, best known for science-fiction novels such as Hyperion (1989) but excelling as well in the mystery and horror genres, was born in Peoria, Ill. You’ll be too enmeshed in the grim ordeals of the hapless men on the doomed British ships Terror and Erebus. The paperback version of Terror runs to almost 1,000 pages, but once you’re locked in harness with the steady march of Simmons’ prose, you won’t notice the gargantuan length. ![]() He used the largest, starkest canvas in the world - the bewildering blankness of the mostly uninhabited vastness of the planet’s northernmost regions - to paint with the deepest colors and explore the most intense human emotions: love, hate, fear, envy, hunger, lust, ambition. Simmons specializes in Jumbo Lit, in writing books so big that, as an anonymous British critic once described similarly enormous tomes, they’re fit to “stun a pig.” In The Terror (2007), his sensational seam-buster of a saga about a real-life Arctic expedition in the late 1840s, Simmons showed just what a brilliant author can do if you give him enough elbow room. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While referencing her own life and experiences, Joan shares her wisdom, advice, and lessons learned - inviting us to put aside mediocrity and live virtuous, courageous lives. The book is divided into 15 short chapters and written in Joan’s voice, as a dialogue with the reader. “Joan conveys to us the beauty and the greatness of the human being and arouses in us a thirst for life, for engagement and for sacrifice,” he writes. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January, 1873 died at Lisieux 30 September, 1897. She is also known as the Little Flower of Jesus. While we may think of the valiant Maid of Orleans as distant and not relatable, Havard - founder of the Virtuous Leadership Institute - believes that Joan of Arc has something important to say to us today. Therese of the Child Jesus and Holy Face, was a Carmelite Nun in a Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, France. If you find yourself wishing at times that you had a coach for your life, you may want to pick up a new little book by Alexandre Havard called Coached by Joan of Arc, published by Scepter Press. Most of us have times in life when we could use a personal coach - someone to encourage us, challenge us, hold us accountable, and invite us to a deeper and richer way of living. This French saint will encourage, challenge, and inspire you with her wisdom and advice in a new book. Thrse of Lisieux’s Followers (290) Thrse of Lisieux Born in Alenon, France JanuDied SeptemGenre Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry, Religion & Spirituality edit data Saint Thrse de Lisieux or Saint Thrse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Franoise-Thrse Martin, was a French Carmelite nun. ![]() ![]() Love is a privileged perception, the most complete and total perception not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows, we ourselves are shadows. The Invention of Morel may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect novel.Bioy Casares's theme is not cosmic, but metaphysical: the body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Inspired by Bioy Casaress fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Bioy makes us laugh at our foibles with an affectionate yet elegant touch.Behind his post-Kafka, pre-Woody Allen sense of nonsense is a metaphysical vision, particularly of life's brevity and the slippery terrain of love. ![]() The Argentine Adolfo Bioy Casares is an urban comedian, a parodist who turns fantasy and science fiction inside out to expose the banality of our scientific, intellectual, and especially erotic pretensions. It is this keenness of thought and expression that buttresses Borges's claim of the novella's perfection. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Like the best science fiction, of which this is an exemplar, Bioy's themes have become ever more relevant to a society beholden to image. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. A masterfully paced and intellectually daring plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() In an EC horror story, unspeakable things happened to peopleÑbut, for the most part, they deserved them. Romero, whose most famous credit is " Night Of The Living Dead," and the original screenplay is by Stephen King, who wrote " Carrie" and " The Shining." What they've done here is to recapture not only the look and the storylines of old horror comics, but also the peculiar feeling of poetic justice that permeated their pages. ![]() (EC Comics almost single-handedly inspired the creation of the Comics Code Authority.) The filmmakers of "Creepshow" say they were raised on those old comics, and it would appear that their subsequent careers were guided by the Ol' Crypt-Keeper's bag of tales. These stories have been inspired, right down to the very camera angles, by the classic EC Comics of the early 1950s titles like " Tales from the Crypt," which curdled the blood of Eisenhower-era kids raised on such innocent stuff as Captain Marvel, and appalled their elders. The horrors in "Creepshow" are universal enough, and so is the approach. What could be more horrifying that sticking your hand into a long-forgotten packing crate and suddenly feeling teeth sink into you? Unless it would be finding yourself buried up to the neck on the beach, with the tide coming in? Or trapped in an old grave, with the tombstone toppling down on top of you? Or having green stuff grow all over you? Or how about being smothered by cockroaches? "Creepshow" plays like an anthology of human phobias. ![]() ![]() ![]() Importantly, it has also become more comprehensive, focusing upon critical infrastructure, food and water access, international diplomacy, and disaster and humanitarian relief, as well as recognizing the threat posed by non-state actors, especially from terrorism, piracy, and even transnational corporations. Moving away from a solely traditional focus upon borders, military power, internal stability, and protecting against invasion, national security now involves non-traditional tenets such as trade, energy, and environmental security. In an increasingly interdependent and globalizing world, appreciating the interests and principles structuring India's national security has never been so important, in particular, how they relate to international security issues. As she rises to prominence, this Oxford India Short Introduction provides an invaluable introduction to both the internal and external aspects of her national security. ![]() India is a country of increasing domestic complexity and mounting international importance. ![]() Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() ![]() The History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin not only became a best-selling and widely praised account of the Reformation, but remains one of the most compelling and influential Reformation histories more than a century after its original publication. Digital 12.49 Digital (Group) 12.49 Overview Published over the span of fifteen years, Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigne’s 8-volume History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin offers a sweeping history of the second generation of the Reformation. He argues that not only religious, but also political emancipation results from the Reformation, and explores the nature of religious freedom, political liberty, and the influence on human history in the three centuries following the Reformation. Jean-Henri Merle dAubigné (16 August 1794 21 October 1872) was a Swiss Protestant minister and historian of the Reformation. by Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubign Publisher: Longman, 1864 Be the first to rate this. Read History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Vol.1-5) by Jean-Henri Merle dAubign with a free trial. These books outline the people, places, and ideas which shaped the Reformation in France, England, Spain, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Instead, Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigne uses Calvin’s life and the church in Geneva to narrate the comprehensive scope of religious reform during the sixteenth century. Although John Calvin figures prominently in the History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, this work is not biographical. ![]() |