![]() ![]() But he was thought to be kindly disposed towards Antony, since he had given refuge to Antony’s mother when she fled from Rome with Fulvia, and so it was decided to make terms with him. Now, Sextus Pompeius was holding Sicily, was ravaging Italy, and, with his numerous piratical ships under the command of Menas the corsair and Menecrates, had made the sea unsafe for sailors. In this case, however, the senate passed a decree remitting the restriction in time. ![]() Accordingly, when both men were agreed, they went up to Rome and celebrated Octavia’s marriage, although the law did not permit a woman to marry before her husband had been dead ten months. For they hoped that Octavia, who, besides her great beauty, had intelligence and dignity, when united to Antony and beloved by him, as such a woman naturally must be, would restore harmony and be their complete salvation. Everybody tried to bring about this marriage. ![]() ![]() Antony, too, now that Fulvia was gone, was held to be a widower, although he did not deny his relations with Cleopatra he would not admit, however, that she was his wife, and in this matter his reason was still battling with his love for the Egyptian. Had died a short time before, and she was a widow. Caesar was exceedingly fond of his sister, who was, as the saying is, a wonder of a woman. Mother for she was the child of Ancharia, but he, by a later marriage, of Atia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Includes historical notes, an author’s note, and a bibliography. ![]() ![]() In this latest installment of her acclaimed Young Royals series, Carolyn Meyer reveals the dizzying rise and horrific downfall of the last queen of France. The typical genre for her work is historical fiction, one of her more popular projects being the Young Royals series, each novel of which tells the story of a different crown princess (duchess, in the case of Catherine de Medici, and lady, in the. But as Marie-Antoinette’s lifestyle gets ever-more recklessly extravagant, the peasants of France are suffering from increasing poverty-and becoming outraged. Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer (Mary Tudor) Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Gray by Ann Rinaldi Patience, Princess Catherine by. Carolyn Meyer (born June 8, 1935) is an American author of novels for children and young adults. This is the worst book Carolyn Meyer had. Desperate for affection and subjected to constant scrutiny, this spirited young woman can’t help but want to let loose with elaborate parties, scandalous fashions, and unimaginable luxuries. And her attempts to bargain with her formidable sister queen, Elizabeth I of England, could cost her her very life. She tried to please everyone-courtiers, her young husband, the king, the French people-but often fell short of their expectations. ![]() Perhaps no other royal has been so maligned-and so misunderstood-as Marie-Antoinette.įrom the moment she was betrothed to the dauphin of France at age fourteen, perfection was demanded of Marie-Antoinette. History paints her as a shallow party girl, a spoiled fashionista, a callous ruler. ![]() ![]() And while Wiley represents much of the best of the South, Jackson is hiding a secret that could threaten this new family in the making. Jackson falls like a wet mule wearing concrete boots for Wiley's sense of humor. 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Large, black-and-white, bear-like mammal native to China. ![]() ![]() Look me up.' The barman flicks through the book and, under the relevant entry, reads: 'PANDA. ![]() When the publican asks him what on earth he is doing, he throws a book on to the bar and growls: 'This is a badly punctuated wildlife manual. She has called it Eats, Shoots and Leaves, a title which comes from a joke in which a panda goes into a bar, asks for a ham sandwich, eats it and then takes out a revolver and fires it into the air. Well, Lynne Truss, who is a little worried about the dash - I know how you feel, Lynne - has written a 'zero- tolerance approach to punctuation' that aims to explain why it really does matter. ![]() ![]() Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. ![]() ![]() Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps-which have come to be simply ignored. Most physicists haven't even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. ![]() INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As you read these words, copies of you are being created. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a mysterious lover at a masquerade turns out to be his would-be fianc e, Preston's resolve begins to crumble. Because no matter what happens, she and Preston will never marry.Īfter his family nearly lost everything, Preston is done letting his late father ruin his life-including choosing his bride. But this isn't going to stop Katherine from living life to the fullest as she ditches all silly notions of love and marriage and sets out to sample all the excitement New York City has to offer. The only problem is Preston refuses to acknowledge it. Her father arranged an engagement to the much sought-after tycoon Preston Clarke ages ago. The charismatic and vivacious Katherine Delafield should be married by now. Joanna Shupe is the queen of historical bad boys - Julia Quinnīy beloved USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe, the third installment in the Fifth Avenue Rebels series about an arranged engagement destined for disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior is an attempted complexity of sexual need, childhood trauma, and father issues. The Eye in the Door (Penguin Books, 1994) follows several strands of plot arc or character development, and the deepening of the understanding of Billy Prior’s psychological field is one of these strands. Prior has left Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, and we meet him again, early on, in a somewhat grubby and clandestine sexual encounter with one Captain Charles Manning, also of the Ministry of Munitions. ![]() Rivers’ appearance, a little later in this offering, does absorb the reading focus with his presence). We find that the erstwhile Second-Lieutenant Prior (now plain Billy Prior of the Ministry of Munitions, London) is more or less the central character of the continued story (more or less because Dr W. It is 1918: several months on from the events depicted in the first of Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy. ![]() ![]() Not only is his translation complete, but it is also available online in a PDF format for free. So although his edition is well-organized, it is not a wise place to stay for the avid learner, which is where Faulkes comes into play. The downside to this however, is that his translation is incomplete he has omitted portions of it that he deemed irrelevant for the more casual reader (tedious information meant for skalds). I tend to recommend Byock only to those who have never been exposed to Norse mythology, because his transition is cleanly organized and user-friendly it is a comfortable place to start. There are generally two versions that I recommend (with an additional third for those who may be interested in manuscript variation): Byock and Faulkes. I have provided explanations for my recommendations before providing the links and citations, but such information can be found below my reasoning and advice. They are, for the most part, supported and promoted by other well-versed folk. That said, however, you should be perfectly fine reading any of the translations I have included below. I am more than happy to share my recommendations, but do keep in mind that I may not be as aware of translation dangers as other may be I am deeply interested in the Eddas, but I do not spend as much time with them as others have. ![]() |