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The man who lived in a hollow tree
Carpenter Harlan Burch, who builds everything from cradle to casket, plants two trees for everyone he cuts down, and when he is very old his sap begins to rise, he grows young again, and starts a family that still lives all over the mountains.
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The Thing
Consigned to the deep freeze of critical and commercial reception upon its release in 1982, The Thing has bounced back spectacularly to become one of the most highly regarded productions from the 1980s 'Body Horror' cycle of films, experiencing a wholesale and detailed reappraisal that has secured its place in the pantheon of modern cinematic horror. Thirty years on, and with a recent prequel reigniting interest, Jez Conolly looks back to the film's antecedents and to the changing nature of its reception and the work that it has influenced. The themes discussed include the significance of The Thing's subversive antipodal environment, the role that the film has played in the corruption of the onscreen monstrous form, the qualities that make it an exemplar of the director's work and the relevance of its legendary visual effects despite the advent of CGI. Topped and tailed by a full plot breakdown and an appreciation of its notoriously downbeat ending, this exploration of the events at US Outpost 31 in the winter of 1982 captures The Thing's sub-zero terror in all its gory glory.
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They Live
Born out of the cultural flamboyance and anxiety of the 1980s, They Live (1988) is a hallmark of John Carpenter's singular canon, combining the aesthetics of multiple genres and leveling an attack against the politics of Reaganism and the Cold War. The decision to cast the professional wrestler \"Rowdy\" Roddy Piper as his protagonist gave Carpenter the additional means to comment on the hypermasculine attitudes and codes indicative of the era. This study traces the development of They Live from its comic book roots to its legacy as a cult masterpiece while evaluating the film in light of the paranoid/postmodern theory that matured in the decidedly \"Big 80s.\" Directed by a reluctant auteur, the film is examined as a complex work of metafiction that calls attention to the nature of cinematic production and reception as well as the dynamics of the cult landscape.
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Adam Bede
George Eliot's debut novel tells a story of love in rural eighteenth-century England.
Adam Bede is an upstanding, hardworking, intelligent young man, the kind of person who knows what he wants—and what he wants is the incredibly shallow Hetty Sorrel. Though Hetty is a milkmaid, she harbors dreams of becoming a dignified member of the upper class. To that end, she has set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, a squire and heir to much of the town's wealth. Meanwhile, Dinah Morris, Hetty's compassionate cousin, harbors irrepressible romantic feelings for Adam.
This love rectangle forms the character basis for one of the greatest English novels of all time. Upon its release in 1859, Adam Bede was immediately lauded as a seminal work for its depiction of English country life at the turn of the nineteenth century, garnering the praise of Charles Dickens. Eliot's deft mixing of the fictional with the real has made Adam Bede a timeless classic.
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A job you mostly won't know how to do : a novel
\"A taciturn carpenter has been too busy putting the final details on others' homes to pay much attention to his own fixer-upper. But when his wife becomes pregnant with their first child, he realizes he'll need to apply his art closer to home. For Taz and Marnie, their dreams are coming into focus, sustained by their deep sense of love and now family. The blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz, plummeting him head first in the new strange world of fatherhood, of responsibility and late nights and unexpected joy and sorrow. It is a deceptively small novel with a very big heart\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Books Received
The following books have been received from December 2017 through March 2018: (1) \"Without End: Sade's Critique of Reason\" by William S. Allen; (2) \"Cinquante nuamces de rose: Les affinites electives du prince de Ligne\" edited by Valerie Andre and Manuel Couvreur; (3) \"The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment\" by Alexander Bevilacqua; (4) \"Geographies of an Imperial Power: The British World, 1688-1815\" by Jeremy Black; (5) \"Menials: Domestsic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650-1850\" by Kristina Booker; (6) \"Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War\" by Lisa Brooks; (7) \"The Poems of Olivia Elder\" edited by Andrew Carpenter; (8) \"Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to His Thought\" by Oliver D. Crisp and Kyle C. Strobel; (9) \"Novel Machines: Technology and Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain\" by Joseph Drury; (10) \"Witness, Warning, and Prophecy: Quaker Women's Writing, 1650-1700\" edited by Teresa Feroli and Margaret Olofson Thickstun; (11) \"The Eighteenth Centuries: Global Networks of Enlightenment\" edited by David T. Gies and Cynthia Wall; (12) \"The Spirit of Early Evangelism: True Religion in a Modern World\" by D. Bruce Hindmarsh; (13) \"Linnaeus, natural history, and the circulation of knowledge\" edited by Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg, and Stephane Van Damme; (14) \"Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of US Citizenship\" by Carrie Hyde; (15) \"Sentiments of a British American Woman: Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution\" by Owen S. Ireland; (16) \"The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760-1825\" by Sandro Jung; (17) \"The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 1: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750\" by Thomas Keymer; (18) \"Byrpn's Letters and Journals: A New Selection\" by Richard Lansdown; (19) \"The Internationalization of Intellectual Exchange in a Globalizing Europe, 1636-1780\" edited by Robert Mankin; (20) \"The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God\" by Massijo Mazzotti; and others.
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