After demobilization, he worked first as a college lecturer in Speech and Drama and then as a grammar-school master before becoming an education officer in the Colonial Service, stationed in Malay and Borneo. He studied English at Manchester University and joined the army in 1940 where he spent six years in the Education Corps. 'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' The TimesĪnthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. 'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language.a very funny book' William S. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language' Daily Telegraph 'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. 'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time 'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future. Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
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Those following me in my various social circles are probably already sick of hearing about this, but launched yesterday. “Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. ― Robert Harris, quote from Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Just as he had trained his body to carry the weight of his ambition, so he had, by effort of will, cured himself of travel sickness, and over the years he was to do a vast amount of work while journeying up and down Italy.) In this manner, almost without his noticing where he was, we completed the trip in less than a fortnight and came at last to Rome on the Ides of March,” Witness statements and records were grouped accordingly, and even as he bounced along, he began drafting whole passages of his opening speech. His plan, as I understood it, was to separate the mass of evidence into four sets of charges - corruption as a judge, extortion in collecting taxes and official revenues, the plundering of private and municipal property, and finally, illegal and tyrannical punishments. I would fetch documents from the baggage cart as he needed them and walk along at the rear of his carriage taking down his dictation, which was no easy feat. Cicero worked every mile of the way, swaying and pitching in the back of his covered wagon, as he assembled the outline of his case against Verres. Not that we had much opportunity to admire the birds and flowers. “THE JOURNEY BACK from Regium to Rome was easier than our progress south had been, for by now it was early spring, and the mainland soft and welcoming. With the evil spirits of the past and the villains of the future chasing them all the way, can the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm find the Matsika children before it’s too late?Īfrican tribal folklore meets futuristic technology in this brilliantly imaginative Newbery Honor Book. It’s a dangerous mission that leads them from the seedy streets of the Cow’s Guts to the swaying top of the Mile-High MacIlwaine Hotel. Together, these three detectives combine their superhuman powers to find the missing children. Immediately, the general calls Africa’s most unusual detectives: the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. General Matsika’s three children sneak out of the house on a forbidden adventure and disappear. You’re about to enter the world of the future-a world turned inside out and upside down, beyond anything you’ve ever imagined. And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence. Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. University of Toronto Schools Technology Suppliesįrom one of the world’s most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.University of Toronto Schools Stationery.Toronto Prep School Technology Supplies.Toronto Prep School Merch & Gym Uniforms.Ontario Institute - Studies in Education.Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education. Halmoni tells a surprised Lily that the tiger is real and wants something she herself once stole. She can’t wait to tell Halmoni, well versed as she is in Korean myths, magic, and spirits. Lily fails to get Mom’s attention, and the tiger walks off unseen by anyone but her. Suddenly, Lily sees a large tiger in the road with no rain falling on it. Mom and Sam bicker in the front seat Lily stays quietly “invisible” in the back. The story opens as Mom drives through a rainstorm to Halmoni’s house. Mom says they must move in order to spend more time with her mother, the girls’ Korean halmoni (grandmother) who immigrated to America long ago. Lily, her older sister Sam, and their mother are moving from their sunny beach town in California to rainy Sunbeam, Washington. It is the summer between sixth and seventh grade for Lily. Packed with astonishing detail and written in Macintyre's inimitable style, For Your Eyes Only is the most enlightening, enlivening book on the creator of the spy who not only lived twice, but proved to be immortal. But Bond's world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and villainy wasn't entirely drawn from imagination: Fleming's background and his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the world's most famous spy. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. um' Spectator NLAN FLEMING +JAMES BOND From The hestsellin u or M Agrenrfalrrag BEN IR/1 INTYFBE FOR YOUR EYES ONLY BEN MACINTYRE is a columnist and. The official history of Ian Fleming and James Bond by the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat'Marvellously entertaining and informative' Spectator'Thrilling' Sunday Times'An entertaining mix of history, espionage, biography, and post-war sociology' Literary Review_'I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories.' One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. Even after I spoil my chance at a good first impression, he still offers me a proposition I can’t refuse: play his girlfriend at a family function and he’ll hire me as his real estate agent. With his strong jaw, easy confidence, and form-fitting scrubs, it’s not long before every housewife in Hamilton is dragging neglected tomcats in for weekly checkups. Adam Foxe takes up residence as the town’s new vet. Instead, I’ve settled for the two guys who will never leave me: Ben & Jerry. Oh, and love? I’ve decided love might be a little ambitious for me at the moment. It’s just that my lofty dreams-making it as a real estate agent, paying rent on time, showering daily-have stayed just that: dreams. When your life is a hot mess at twenty, it’s cute. He is a co-author of five other books and has penned scores of historical articles and book reviews in various learned journals, such as The Journal of Contemporary History, Slavic Review, The Russian Review, German Studies Review and Journal of Military History. He was the author of seven books, the most recent of which was War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: Historical Perspective, published in 2009. He was twice a Fulbright scholar in Germany in 03. Arnold Krammer Shalom Leon Uris." The recipient, Arnold Krammer was a historian who specialized in German and United States history and a professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to historian Arnold Krammer, "For Dr. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. First edition, early printing of the authorâ s magnum opus. I absolutely love getting lost in the stacks there and finding some title on a shelf about astronomy or the French Revolution or whatever! It is my favourite place in the whole world. It was founded by Tennyson and Carlyle and has over three million books. I write in the London Library in Piccadilly. It’s depressing to think how many women have been unable to write and abandoned projects because of the pram in the hallway. If this sounds boring, it is - it takes so much organisation and I’ve had to be quite firm with myself about carving out time to write. In the last year we've had a childminder who picks the kids up twice a week and that has given me so much more freedom to have a full writing day. I work four days a week at the moment and have to snatch half days here and there depending on if I’m doing pick-up. I drop one child off at school and go to the library. Funnily enough, now I have children of my own I can reread all of these except Enid Blyton, whom I adored but now find a bit ‘thin’. Anything that created a world you were utterly absorbed in. I absolutely loved Enid Blyton, CS Lewis, Lorna Hill’s Ballet School books, Noel Streatfeild. Who were your literary influences and heroes as you were growing up? She worked in publishing before becoming an author Her ten bestselling novels include A Place for Us, Going Home and Love Always. |