![]() ![]() Readers of the Wonderland will be sorry to hear that it is their old friend the Hatter who is in this predicament. People live backwards too, and their memory consequently works forward thus there is an unfortunate person whom we find undergoing sentence in prison "the trial doesn't even begin until Wednesday, and the crime comes last of all". One very natural peculiarity of Looking-glass House is that most things in it are exactly reversed accordingly if you want to go anywhere you have to turn round and walk the other way. "You can just see a little peep of the passage in 'Looking-glass House' if you leave the door of the drawing room wide open and it's very like our passage as far as you see, only you know it might be quite different on beyond."Īnd very different on beyond it proves to be when Alice one day in a dream walks through the looking-glass and explores it. The realm of marvels which she visits on this occasion is "Looking-glass House" in the drawing-room: but her curiosity is strongly excited about the rest. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Yet, stunning and beautiful though it may be, the cathedral is not even mentioned in Platform Seven - perhaps a reflection of the fact that, although it is widely visible, for many of the diverse communities that make up this city it is not a place of shared identification and ownership. So, if one were to write a novel set in Peterborough, where would it begin? There is, of course, with its fine west front, the magnificent cathedral, where Catherine of Aragon is buried and St Oswald’s uncorrupted arm was once kept. It does, of course, depend on the novel, and there are notable exceptions, such as Mark Haddon’s A Spot of Bother, or Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, the latter capturing in a hilariously funny and yet deeply sad way the life of some of the local immigrant communities that are a part of the life of this city. ![]() TO BE honest, Peterborough (where I live) is not an obvious place to set a novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Created by its designer “in the mad pride of intellectuality”, the monster possesses full intelligence but owns a hideously loathsome form. The novel, somewhat tinged but scarcely marred by moral didacticism, tells of the artificial human being moulded from charnel fragments by Victor Frankenstein, a young Swiss medical student. Shelley’s Frankenstein was the only one of the rival narratives to be brought to an elaborate completion and criticism has failed to prove that the best parts are due to Shelley rather than to her. John William Polidori in an effort to prove supremacy in horror-making, Mrs. Composed in competition with her husband, Lord Byron, and Dr. ![]() His daughter, the wife of Shelley, was much more successful and her inimitable Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is one of the horror-classics of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. Long ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. This is that book: David Eddings’ Pawn of Prophecy, the first volume in his five-volume masterwork À la Recherche du Temps Perdu The Belgariad:Īnd here is why - from the back-cover blurb: ![]() ![]() Three years later, my family and I moved to a different part of London a couple of years after that, my friend’s marriage broke up fast forward a few more years and we moved out of London, I got a Ph.D in palaeontology, my wife got an MA in Music Therapy, I started writing The Reinvigorated Programmer … and the book remained unread. In 1997 or thereabouts, a friend’s wife lent me a book that she thought I’d enjoy. ![]() ![]() Now as Henry IV, Henry imprisons Richard, and Richard is murdered in prison. ![]() Henry returns to England to reclaim his land, gathers an army of those opposed to Richard, and deposes him. King Richard II banishes Henry Bolingbroke, seizes noble land, and uses the money to fund wars. TL DR (may contain spoilers): Richard wastes money, steals land, and kills political rivals people are angry and rebel Henry becomes king. Information to help you plan your visit to Shakespeare's family homes Prices, booking, opening times and more to help you get organisedĮnjoy seasonal activities and special events throughout the year Walk in Shakespeare's footsteps at Shakespeare's New Place ![]() ![]() Relive Shakespeare's love story at Anne Hathaway's Cottage Visit William Shakespeare's Birthplace and explore his childhood world, right where it all began. ![]() |