![]() ![]() The bookplate is designed by his son Rupert Bathhurst. Bookplate of Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe (1934-2009), Barrister and politician. The landscape of Sark was conveniently at hand for background details. He coaxed his sons to pose as Jim Hawkins and his wife as Blind Pew. Quintessential Peake, illustrating his best-loved book. Inside the Ex libris plate of C.H.L.Bledisloe on first blank endpaper. London, 1911 Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom Seller Rating: Contact seller First Edition Used - Hardcover US 155.22 Convert currency US 33.91 Shipping From United Kingdom to U.S.A. In a very good clean unmarked unclipped pictorial dust wrapper which has a small piece missing at head of spine and some small marginal tears and crease at edges. ![]() ![]() Title-page drawings & 40 illustrations in text (6 sectional, 23 full-page, 11 tailpieces) + vignette on final page illustrated by Mervyn Peake. Bound in deep blue linen-effect boards, spine lettered & ruled plainly in gilt pp. Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1949.Ĩvo.First edition thus with illustrations by Mervyn Peake. Stevenson, illustrated Mervyn Peake First Edition ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In Rowell’s book Fangirl, which we raved about here, the main character, Cath, writes fanfic about a fictional series called Simon Snow, a series which has a marked resemblance to the real-life series Harry Potter (by real-life, I mean there is an actual published series called Harry Potter not that Harry Potter is non-fiction, although that hasn’t stopped me from looking for my Hogwarts letter). Just know that this book is full of teenagers having Feelings and Angst. But Rainbow Rowell writes some damn fine YA and turns out that she also writes seriously amazing fantasy as well, so I personally have no complaints. This book is really, really heavy on teen angst. This being the case, it’s not going to shock you all that I was really excited about Carry On and while I didn’t burst out into loud sobs, I certainly got a bit sniffly and now I’m super depressed that the book is over because the end was so delightful that I didn’t want to stop reading. At this point Rowell could publish the phone book (remember phone books?) and my review would be, “This listing of names and numbers was so poignant, it really spoke to my soul, I cried a ton and then I had good book sigh.” I’ve gotten so Pavlovian about this that I’m considering starting a petition that every Rowell book come with a free package of Kleenex. The book is announced, I squee, I get the book, I jump around, I read the book, I cry lakes of tears. I don’t know why I even bother reviewing Rainbow Rowell books. Genre: LGBTQIA, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a problem as his livelihood is a main source of income for her family, but Alinor isn't too sad he is missing as he was abusive to her and an all around horrible guy. Alinor's husband has left months ago on a fishing expedition and never has come back. It's mostly marshlands and their lives are ruled by the tides. I t is dangerous for a woman to be different."Īlinor and her children, Alys and Rob, live on Sealsea Island, which is on the southern coast of England. This is the time of witch mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. ![]() Alinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands -the marshy landscape of the south coast. Goodreads says, " Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story establishes the young Holmes as the protagonist as soon as the two future friends meet. John Watson, the first narrator of the story meets the young, quirky, and freakish genius Sherlock Holmes, and they become flatmates. The first part of the story is quite fast-paced. I picked up the book just to see whether the hype was real, and it surprisingly was! Yes, the novel isn’t perfect, but it is an absolute gem! Contrasting Parts ![]() However, I should thank my wife who gave me a collection of all the four novels as my birthday gift. A Study in Scarlet is the first English language detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as a tool for investigation.įrankly speaking, I was never a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, though I had read “The Blue Carbuncle” in school. It is one of the only four novels in which Conan Doyle portrayed the iconic detective, other than the short stories. Written way back in 1887, A Study in Scarlet was the first novel in which Sherlock Holmes appeared. ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s imaginary detective gained legendary status much before Robert Downey Jr portrayed the character in blockbuster movies. In all of English novels written in the past couple of centuries, very few characters have gone on to become as popular and iconic as Sherlock Holmes. ![]() |