![]() ![]() Jane Eyre portrays the urgent quest of its narrator for an identity. But the adventure offered by the author is an interior one. This is a convention derived from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (No 2 in this series). First, the novel is cast, from the title page, as "an autobiography". There are three principal elements to Brontë's magic. She herself reports that she was "carried away by an undreamed-of and hitherto unimagined whirlwind". Thackeray's daughter says that the novel (which was dedicated to her father) "set all London talking, reading, speculating". A year later it was done, much of it composed in a white heat. She began to write her second novel ( The Professor had just been rejected) in August 1846. The magic of Jane Eyre begins with Charlotte Brontë herself. Even today, many readers will never forget the moment they first entered the strange, bleak world of this remarkable book. Add to this a prose style of unvarnished simplicity and you have the Victorian novel that cast a spell over its generation. For this, she can be claimed as the forerunner of the novel of interior consciousness. We, the author, and Jane Eyre become one. In an extraordinary breakthrough for the English novel, borrowing the intimacy of the 18th-century epistolary tradition, Charlotte Brontë had found a way to mesmerise the reader through an intensely private communion with her audience. ![]()
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For her, it means only one thing - even beyond the grave, her mother can never forgive Elena for breaking her heart.įor Lucas, New York is hallowed ground that he can never leave. ![]() When Elena discovers Lucas is the boy who gave her that crystal snowflake all those years ago, she can't accept it as the sign Lucas believes it to be. But those plans go awry when she meets Lucas Adair, a man whose own grief and guilt just might rival her own. ![]() Agreeing to help her sister prepare for her baby's birth seems like a good way to spend Christmas and Elena vows not to let the monstrous guilt that weighs on her heart ruin everything. Since losing her mom, Elena Larsen hasn't set foot in New York City - until now. The boy pressed a crystal snowflake ornament into the girl's hand and disappeared into the crowd, unaware that his simple act of kindness saved her from the guilt that threatened to consume her. 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It stars Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Eiza González, Cliff Curtis, and Helen Mirren. ![]() It is the first spin-off of the Fast & Furious franchise, and is set following the events of The Fate of the Furious (2017). Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (also known simply as Hobbs & Shaw) is a 2019 buddy action comedy film directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce, based on a story by Morgan. ![]() ![]() Food and drink, new friends and neighbors, the non-human inhabitants of her house and land, the joys and frustrations of foreign gardening, the colors and textures and tastes daily encountered are all given their moments. It's not all sweeping vistas and Renaissance churches in this telling Mayes transforms the details of daily life, and she considers big questions, too. The real genius here, though, is in the scope. 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Your Inner Fish, hosted on PBS by fish paleontologist Neil Shubin of Tiktaalik fame, blends fishy fables with embryology, genetics, and human anatomy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her injuries left her blind in one eye and driving at night is a thing of the past. Guilt plagues her even in her nightmares. Her body isn’t the only thing that was wounded. It would be a daily reminder of all she lost on one fateful evening. ![]() After getting injured in the line of duty, she was offered a desk job, but she couldn’t stomach being cooped up behind a desk. She’s a former police officer with the LAPD. Stoic Rae Coleman works the door at one of LA’s most popular comedy clubs. Undaunted, Steph decides the natural solution is finding a roommate who can pose as her boyfriend/girlfriend. The catch-the landlord only rents to couples. Housing in Los Angeles is expensive, but she gets a line on a rent-controlled apartment close to the comedy clubs the city is famous for. After spending a year on the road playing gigs at bowling alleys and honky-tonk bars where payment was often free beer and chicken wings, she’s returned home to give LA one more chance. She’s been at it for ten years, and she told herself if she hadn’t caught her big break by the age of thirty, it would be time to concede to family pressure and find a “real job”. The life of a stand-up comic in Los Angeles isn’t an easy one. The Roommate Arrangement by Jae is an opposites attract/fake romance about two women who realize they are perfectly matched despite their differences.Ĭomedian Stephanie Renshaw is approaching her thirtieth birthday, and she still hasn’t made the big time. ![]() ![]() Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she left behind. 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