![]() If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. ![]() There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. 'A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women' Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Strange the Dreamer a tale that will sweep you away' Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger From the author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January comes this lush, magical work of speculative fiction that will appeal to fans of The Night Circus, The Power and The Binding. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Meily has quite a bag of tricks here, and he’s definitely not scrimping. Words of juvenile love letters pop out from the paper with mock elegance. Narrations are accompanied by quickly edited montages. Directed by Mark Meily, the movie version approximates the book’s charms with a bit of visual inventiveness. ![]() It is therefore not surprising that the book was eventually made into a movie. Sure, the book does rely on the device characterized by nostalgia, but at least it does so with such colloquial flair that it is almost impossible not to get hooked. While the book namedrops various references to ‘80s and ‘90s pop culture to tickle readers’ fancies, what really makes Ong’s work so memorable is its depiction of what seems to be a shared attitude towards a recent past. MANILA, Philippines – The pleasures of Bob Ong’s ABNKKBSNPlako?! are not hinged on its generic plot but on its unabashed appreciation of all things close to being forgotten from decades past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Chuang Tzu is the wild and wacky prose complement to the Tao Te Ching. Equally influential in the social sphere, Confucius' Analects is the source of social wisdom in China. Perhaps the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Taoist philosophy, which eventually developed into Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. ![]() Breathing new life into these classics, Hinton's new translations will stand as the definitive texts for our era. But these new versions are not only inviting and immensely readable-they also apply much-needed consistency to key philosophical terms in these texts, lending structural links and philosophical rigor heretofore unavailable in English. Four seminal masterworks of Chinese thought-the Tao Te Ching, the Analects, the Chuang Tzu, and the Mencius-presented in one volume for the first time in nearly two centuries Hinton's award-winning experience translating a wide range of ancient Chinese poets makes these books sing in English as never before. ![]() |