![]() ![]() It is one of the two best-known Moomin series (along with the Japanese-made anime version Moomin (1990). This series was the third series to be made based on the Moomin books. It was narrated by British actor Richard Murdoch. The series was last repeated in its entirety in 1988. Series 1 was first shown on Monday 24 January 1983 at 4:15 pm and series 2 on Monday 7 January 1985 at 4.15pm on Children's ITV, and series 2 was repeated in 1986. The British version was adapted by Anne Wood at FilmFair for ITV Central and broadcast in the UK. ![]() The series was later sold to other countries including the UK. The original broadcast in Poland premiered on November 19, 1978. ![]() The Moomins ( Polish: Opowiadania Muminków, lit.'Moomins' Short Stories', German: Die Mumins) is a stop motion animated children's television series based on the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books which was produced by Se-ma-for and Jupiter Film between 19 for Polish, Austrian and German television. Polish People's Republic, Austria, West Germany ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Time and again the message is that we should turn to God as a hurt or frightened child should run to its mother. This is the general tenor of the revelations, despite the concentration on superficially gruesome detail such as the blood that flows from the crown of thorns (“And as for the roundness of the drops, they were like herring scales” – Julian’s words this time, her imagination bringing the text to life and showing us the workings of the medieval mind). He is telling her that while it’s true that sin is the cause of all the pain in the world, she should not worry: it’s going to be all right. She is, after all, the author of the first work in English identifiably written by a woman, which includes such resonant lines as “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well” (words lifted by TS Eliot for his poem “Little Gidding”).Īccording to the vision, these are Jesus’s words, not hers. She called herself “a simple creature that cowde no letter” (that is, illiterate), but that must be taken as a declaration of extreme modesty. ![]() ![]() All we know about Julian of Norwich, beyond what she tells us in the text, is that she was a contemporary of Chaucer and that “Julian” was the saint’s name of the church she was attached to – literally so: as an anchoress, she was walled up in a cell built on to the church, with food and drink brought to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() The acrid stench of the Thunderpath stung his nostrils together with a new smell sharper and more terrifying. Fireheart could hear a roaring around him like wind in tall trees. This new series will have particular appeal for fans of Brian Jacques' Redwall series. Fireheart finds new danger lurking in the woods as the chill of winter sets in. Firepaw the warrior brave is now Fireheart warrior cat. The second of six titles set in a thrilling world of wild cat clans. After a brave fight he is invited to leave the 'twoleg' world and join Thunderclan one of four cat tribes to train as a warrior. ![]() When 'kittypet' Rusty strays into the forest beyond his owner's garden and is ambushed by a wild cat life as he knows it is over. ![]() A thrillling new feline fantasy series that draws you into a vivid animal world. Take your first steps into the wilderness with Rusty the house cat as he leaves his home to go and live in the wild. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He touches them with his foot and knows that they lie cold and lifeless. He begins with a group of fire ants scurrying across the pavement. Now he has the evil power to burn other living creatures to death. The fire of this fever completely purges Charles of his good qualities. His lungs catch fire "like burning bellows of pink alcohol," and his room lights up "as with the flickering of a hearth." Charles' lips burn and his eyelids, like leaves, catch fire. ![]() His limbs grow warm, then so hot that the room is filled with the warmth of this feverish change. Soon Charles declares that his hand no longer belongs to him, and he begs the doctor to "change it back." But the doctor's procedures are useless, and before long, this terror possesses Charles' entire body. Not long after the burning fever begins, Charles feels a nameless terror overtake him. Just as the land is beginning to burn from the autumn season, Charles begins to burn from a high fever. The protagonist of the story is Charles, a young lad who is sick with a cold. ![]() ![]() Through careful, subtle changes of style, Chopin shows the transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. ![]() ![]() The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, edited with an introduction by Sandra M. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Silence fails, and Silence ultimately falls. (Side note: as a writer, if you want to learn a little something about world-building and series continuity with new protagonists in each book, this series should be your bible.)ĭue to a high incidence of violence and insanity, the Psy believed that they needed to train the emotion out of their population to control and contain their abilities. ![]() ![]() In brief, there are three races of people who live in an alternate-Earth: the Psy, a race of mentally superior people who have psychic abilities (telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, etc.) Changelings, a race of people who can change into an animal form and regular ol’ humans. You can start here, or you can go all the way back to Slave to Sensation and get to know the characters, politics, and conflicts that inhabit this world in fifteen fabulous volumes. Silver Silence is the first in the new Psy-Changeling Trinity series, which is really a new entry point for the original Psy-Changeling series. I’ve read every single book, most more than once, and a few many times. I adore Nalini Singh, particularly the Psy-Changeling series. ![]() ![]() When he was two months old, his parents immigrated with him to Joe Kubert was born on October 12, 1926, in Yzerin, Poland. ![]() " I've always felt that the job I have is not so much drawing as telling a story in a graphic form-in other words, drawing to communicate." From the Old World to the New His work as an artist and illustrator, writer, director at DC Comics, and as a pioneering cartoon art instructor has, according to Jennings, "helped define American comic books." Kubert's sixty-plus-year career spans the history and evolution of the comic book and the rise of the graphic novel. ![]() Rock and, in particular, the graphic novels Fax from Sarajevo: A Story of Survival and Yossel: April 19, 1943-include vivid portrayals of how war impacts the individual. Kubert established himself by drawing such comic book superheroes as Hawkman, Batman, and The Flash. Joe Kubert is a legendary comic book artist: "One of the old masters of the comic book," as New York Times contributor Dana Jennings wrote in 2003. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is their story-a story of two young people and a love so uncompromising it will bring joy to your heart and tears to your eyes. Their attraction to each other is immediate and powerful, and together they share a love that defies everything. Erich Segals Love Story is a fast read about the romance between two college students, Oliver and Jennifer, who get married several days after graduation. Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. This is the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law, and Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. Barrett has been gone a mere forty-eight hours, and Jenny has already found someone else to love. ![]() It is the story that told the world, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” This special anniversary edition includes an introduction by the author's daughter, Francesca Segal. He hears her telling someone named Phil that she loves him. It has sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide and became a blockbuster film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw. The iconic tale of love and loss that has touched the hearts of millions, Love Story has become one of the most adored novels of our time. ![]() “Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be.” - San Francisco Examiner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The endings of the film and the novel also differ considerably, the sour sweet and conventional filmic closure fundamentally departing from the rather sad open ending of the picaresque novel. ![]() In the case of Forrest Gump however these alterations were quite extreme, for the nice, kind idiot of the film is radically different from the Forrest of the novel. Whenever novels are adapted and their characters migrate from the pages of the book onto the silver screen, their literary entity is necessarily altered to fit in with the requirements of the new medium. “ Run, Forrest, run!”: this famous quotation from Robert Zemeckis’ hugely successful Forrest Gump is in a way emblematic of the many transformations undergone by the original eponymous character in Winston Groom’s first person narrative in the process of adapting it for the cinema… since it does not even appear in the novel. ![]() ![]() (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile, Children's, Polish, Dog) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fantasy for young readers which can be read and understood on several levels, about a mysterious spectre that manifests in unexpected and fragmentary ways, and sometimes as a Great Dane. The Anthropos-spectre-beast Tadeusz Konwicki 1977 Amid warnings of the earth's end Peter encounters the Anthropos-Spectre-Beast and travels with the Investigator Dog on mysterious trips into the Universe. With atmospheric interior monochrome illustrations by Julek Heller. In original pictorial jacket, illustration by Julek Heller, about as new with tiny creasing to parts of edges, protected in mylar wrap. Internally, no owner's marks, faint tiny trace of bookseller notation, very few faint dots of foxing on endpapers, contents about as new except for group of few pages with creased and foxed upper corner edge. speckle of foxing to tops and few scattered specks to other edges. ![]() Covers about as new, with slightly bumped spine extremities, very slightly rubbed edges. ![]() Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Mylar Wrap. ![]() |