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Amadan on Kindle
Amadan has just resurfaced on GR, thanks to kind friends, so I need to let people know that it is available on Kindle from Amazon.
Or in paperback from https://www.buthbharraigh.co.uk/ Or from me!
Or in paperback from https://www.buthbharraigh.co.uk/ Or from me!
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"'The King sits in Dunfermline toun,
Drinkin the bluid-red wine ‘O whaur will A get a skeely skipper Tae sail this ship o mine?’ “Sir Patrick Spens” is a poem I remember studying in the earlier years of my time in high school, a tad over 50 years ago now." Read more of this review » |
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Hats off to you for finishing the book, Ian. Charlemagne came up in school history but only briefly. You could easily have been a history teacher!
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"I suspect that I am not part of the target audience for this book. It seems to me that Janet Nelson aimed this at her academic peers, with a view to consolidating her reputation. I couldn’t possibly argue with the scholarly quality of the book, but I"
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Ian wrote: "Fascinating review Jeanne! Great how you bring out the linguistic elements that went over my head.
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"Of the five stories that make up this collection, I enjoyed two (Lady macbeth of Mtsensk (1864) & The Sealed Angel (1873)), two challenged my will to read (Pamphalon the Entertainer (1887) & A winter's Day (1894)), and one (Musk Ox (1863)) left me in"
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Really interesting review, Ian. I'd be drawn in by the the title - I suppose the connection is evident in the narrative! How about the Shakespearian L
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"There are a set of 5 stories within this collection. Each of them borders on novella territory.
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Brilliant, Ulysse! It's all so barbed and vicious - like a cat! And yet - I have read and listened to it often. Maybe it's Richard Burton's voice. The
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“I have always been a man of peace. I have always denounced the man who strove to tamper with an oppressed people by any appeal to physical force. I have always said that moral force was the degree of deliberation in each man's mind which told him when submission was a duty or resistance not a crime; and that a true application of moral force would effect every change, but in case it should fail, physical force would come to its aid like an electric shock — and no man could prevent it; but that he who advised or attempted to marshal it would be the first to desert it at the moment of danger. God forbid that I should wish to see my country plunged into horrors of physical revolution. I wish her to win her liberties by peaceful means.”
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“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.”
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“Were women being confined yet again to that alabaster pedestal so beloved of the Victorian age, when Woman as better-than-man gave men a license to be gleefully and enjoyably worse than women, while all the while proclaiming that they couldn’t help it because it was their nature? Were women to be condemned to virtue for life, slaves in the salt-mines of goodness?”
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
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“The great French historian Ernest Renan in the late 1880s denied that a nation was based on ethnicity and language or blood-and-soil nationality. His argument was that a nation consists of people who have a collective shared sentiment and that sentiment is based on myth and history and a series of symbols and markers of identity. There is a constant referendum going as to whether that sentiment still exists in the union. Renan’s concept of a nation is that it can be ephemeral; it’s not there forever, it is not a permanency as it varies according to circumstances. This is a very intriguing parallel with what’s going on in the UK today.”
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etherealfire wrote: "Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3"I'm glad you accepted!
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Thanks so much for the GR Friend Request <3
Thank you, Beata - I look forward to sharing books with you.Jeanne.
Happy to be your GR Friend, JC, and thanks for a lovely request :))