![]() "A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire. ![]() The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. ![]() The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It eventually descends into just the kind of crash-bang bollocks that makes bad comic-book adaptations so repetitively dull. In spite of that business with the rings, the opening chapters mostly feel like an extended “superheroes assemble” montage. Meanwhile, the main story descends into increasingly absurd melodrama. Powers uses the couple to crowbar in a few ideas about intellectual property and biological evolution, but otherwise they’re a distraction. The closest they get to the central protest is sometimes reading about it in newspapers. ![]() Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly’s story (concerning a divorce that is postponed when Ray has a stroke) also feels at odds with the main narrative. Neelay Mehta, a clumsily rendered Indian-American computer genius, lives an entirely separate life developing a computer game that only really fits in because the game’s structure is mixed in with tenuous metaphors about the “furious green speculations” of trees. At least three main characters never converge on the main story. Huge chunks of the book don’t properly fit into that concentric ring structure. So: there’s plenty to appreciate if you’re predisposed to liking books and disliking the idea of environmental apocalypse.īut. ![]() ![]() I Can See Just Fine by Eric Barclay – A book for kids ages 4 to 6 about a little girl who says over and over “I can see just fine,” even though everything looks blurry at school and at violin practice. But parents may want to take note before buying the book that Peppa ends up not needing glasses like her glasses-wearing pal Pedro Pony.īooks about getting glasses for preschoolers Peppa’s First Glasses by Neville Astley – This book for kids ages 0 to 5 features the popular character Peppa Pig and is about glasses. ![]() It features a dog named Douglas whose funny antics - like chasing a leaf he thinks is a squirrel - happen because he needs glasses. Glasses to Go by Hannah Eliot and Daniel Roode (illustrator) – This interactive book for kids ages 3 to 5 introduces different types of glasses, from cool shades to a monocle for going to the opera.ĭouglas, You Need Glasses! by Ged Adamson – Beloved kids book about wearing glasses for kids ages 3 to 7. One day, he realizes he needs glasses when he can no longer see the ball. ![]() ![]() Arlo Needs Glasses by Barney Saltzberg – A story for kids ages 2 to 6 about a shaggy dog who loves to play catch. ![]() ![]() Passepartout wants to take a look inside one of the temples with his shoes on. Detective Fix does sometimes lie so he can hide parts of his identity, but also, he is trying to do his duty.įaith is not a very important part of the story, but it leads to a big breakthrough. However, these are mere accidents and he is actually a good man. He accidentally ends up offending some priests, and gets into other such scrapes. Passepartout seems to make mistakes, even though he tries to do the right thing. This story isn’t really about morals, but there are times when people aren’t acting in fitting ways. This is a race for £20,000 and there will only be one winner. Boats and trains are daily business for them, they meet new people everyday, dangers are waiting, and there are people who would do anything to stop their journey. ![]() Passepartout, they set out for a journey they never could have imagined. His friends don’t believe so, but Phileas is sure that it is possible. Nobody expects anything big from him, but one evening they discuss a news article and whether it’s possible to go around the world in just 80 days. Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman and a proud member of the Reform Club, has always been the mysterious man, following his routines strictly and playing whist with the club members. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneĪ classic and exiting story with some doubtful spiritual and alcohol/drug content. ![]() |