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Há 2 dias · The Mayor of Casterbridge Polly Walker made her screen debut on television in 1989. However, one of her earliest and most recognizable roles was portraying Lucetta Templeman in the TV adaptation ...
Há 2 dias · A classic book to read offline: The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy is a classic novel that tells the story of a man's rise and fall in a small English town. Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, the novel follows the life of Michael Henchard, a proud and ambitious man who becomes the mayor of the town through a series of fortunate events.
Há 3 dias · Hardy wrote The Mayor Of Casterbridge at a desk in the bay window of the Casterbridge Room there – and standing in the great man’s footsteps, I couldn’t help feeling a moment of frisson. Our next stop was Max Gate, the Grade I listed house that Hardy designed following his early literary success and where he lived until his death in 1928.
Há 3 dias · The settings are very familiar – Melchester, Casterbridge, etc – and the characters are all eminently recognisable – honest, hard-working rural folk prone to making unfortunate choices. The theme that links the stories, we are invited to accept, is that they are sketches of ironic moments in people’s lives, although the irony is quite often hard to identify.
Há 15 horas · May 22, 2024 — 2.51pm. Normal text size. Larger text size. Very large text size. Since winning the Booker Prize last November for his book Prophet Song, Irish novelist Paul Lynch has conducted ...
I like stories that touch on themes of mental illness and dysfunctional families, such as O'Neill's great play, Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Há 1 dia · ~1991: Commodore 64. The first system I owned was this beautiful Commodore 64. This version (the “Playful Intelligence” one) was a fascinating release – it was a re-hash of the ill-fated Commodore 64GS, with the keyboard stuck back on, a cartridge bundled in with 4 games (Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top o’ Fun, Flimbo’s Quest, International Soccer and Klax), and flogged in Tandy for ...
