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Whale in a fishbowl
Wednesday, a whale living in captivity, is inspired by a little girl named Piper to try to reach the sea.
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Turning Tides, Changing Times
The paper aims to compare two murder mysteries in which the sea plays a key role—the Golden Age mystery Evil Under the Sun (1941) by Agatha Christie and the postmodern novel Journey to the South (2004, in English 2023) by Michal Ajvaz. It is argued that both novels present the sea/water as an element that incites transgression, yet simultaneously facilitates the solving of the crime, thus tying the image of the sea to the notion of unpredictability and chaos. The paper further shows how, in Evil Under the Sun, the twentieth century cultural transformation of the sea is depicted in its early stages, with the penetration of the social type of tourists into a space archaically connected to danger. Meanwhile, Ajvaz already regards this as the default attitude—seeing the sea as a domesticated place of leisure, with evil, dangerous, or even supernatural elements in tense moments of conflict. While Evil Under the Sun works with a more traditional struggle between order and chaos, Ajvaz’s novel appeals to postmodern thinking by treating the ambiguity, the diverse interpretations of the world, and the chaotic nature of the sea as stimulating.
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Pearl
When young Pearl, a mermaid, becomes caretaker of a single grain of sand, she discovers that performing even the smallest task well can transform the world.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The classic tale of the wonders and terrors lurking in the deep
A monster has been wreaking havoc in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The US government has sent forth a team featuring Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist; Ned Land, a Canadian harpoonist; and Aronnax's servant Conseil to take care of the problem. Their mission: Kill the beast. But what they find is the submarine Nautilus and its helmsman, the fearsome Captain Nemo.
Onboard Nemo's ship, Aronnax has a vision of ocean life that he never believed possible. In Nemo he sees a man who is entirely liberated yet completely shackled to his past—a scientist with the power to go anywhere in the world but held back by fierce anger. Written in 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was one of the earliest novels of science fiction literature and has remained a classic of the genre over a century later.
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The starless sea
\"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to a subterranean library, hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians--it is a place of lost cities and seas of honey, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a beautiful barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly-soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose--in both the rare book and in his own life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Koráb pohádek
Bohatě ilustrovaná kniha představuje spisovatele Eduarda Basse jako talentovaného vypravěče krátkých pohádkových příběhů. Přináší vůbec první kompletní vydání souboru 43 pohádek z celého světa, které Bass převyprávěl podle německých vzorů. Část textů stačil za svého života publikovat časopisecky, některé později vyšly v knižních výborech, dvacítka pohádek však zůstala netknuta v autorově literární pozůstalosti. Knižní vydání příběhů v úplnosti a podle edičních zásad připravila absolventka Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity Hedvika Landová, ilustracemi doprovodil výtvarník Petr Korunka. Výsledkem je kvalitně zpracovaná kniha, která okouzlí děti i dospělé čtenáře.
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Walter Wink
Walter Wink's writing has been described as brilliant, provocative, passionate, and innovative. His skills in critical scholarship were matched by an engaging and honest style that make his work a must read for twenty-first century theologians and all who seek deeper understanding at the intersection of Bible, theology, social ethics, and more.
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Ships and Memories
An account of life on steamships, this book draws on the experiences of seafarers in peace and war and during the depression.
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Orchard in the Head; THE INLAND SEA; Fiction By Steven Varni William Morrow: 270 pp., $22
The dozen stories of Steven Varni's \"The Inland Sea\" are meant to comprise a novel but read more like a troubled memoir. They are grouped, in reference to William Blake, under the headings \"Innocence\" and \"Experience.\" The stories follow the life of Vincent Torno, the youngest of three children of an Italian American family living in the semi-rural San Joaquin Valley. Vincent's boyhood, spent roaming undeveloped land and family orchards, could be the stuff of a childhood idyll. But the land is marred by its inhabitants--a polluted canal is the town's defining feature--and Vincent's family life follows his mother's mental illness, a cycle of upheavals and nervous calms. In the second story, \"Heroes, Bravery, Great Feats,\" it is Vincent's father who is responsible for his unhappiness. The first sentence states that Vincent \"spent much of his childhood wishing he could have a different father.\" Paul Torno is a driven man who praises the virtue of hard work and is prone to violent emotional outbursts, which his wife easily and at times deliberately provokes. Vincent would prefer a parent like the avuncular Father Faolin, he says. The priest pays a friendly visit to the Torno household early in the story and manages to embarrass Vincent's father, something that leaves a lasting impression on the boy. Father Faolin returns at the end of the piece, and we are told that his visits to the Torno house bring a sense of levity; \"years later Vincent would think of these evenings--not the tense stressful trips to Disneyland--as the only vacations his family ever had.\" But they were brief; Vincent's father \"strictly enforced his bedtime.\" This story is one of the book's most problematic and forms something other than the neat cause and effect related above.
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