![]() ![]() The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. ![]() Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. ![]() It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at Wikisource ![]()
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![]() ![]() A scroll had sat half unfurled across her lap. Her short-sleeved linen shift was well made but plain for the Peacock governor’s only daughter, her black hair in a clean, glossy braid that hadn’t yet frayed and dulled with fever sweat. The girl had been sitting up on her pallet when Fie walked into the quarantine hut, dark eyes imperious, mouth set in a stiff bar like the one sealing the door from the outside. No, the sticking point now was the sinner girl. Too many lives had ended on the edge of her steel since then to pretend that didn’t hold a speck of truth. Tavin had told her last moon that killing never ought to get easier, but that it did anyway. It wasn’t the act itself in the three weeks since taking charge of her band of Crows, Fie had dealt mercy more than a handful of times. ![]() Fie was taking too long to cut the girl’s throat. ![]() ![]() It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. ![]() ![]() Heartstopper is about friendship, loyalty and mental illness. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family. Nick knows Charlie's gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn't. Summary: Nick and Charlie are best friends. Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized. ![]() They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. until one day when they're made to sit together. Summary: Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Technically, Evie Boyd is telling us her story from the vantage point of adulthood, which she has reached nearly unscathed despite missing the famous murders only by inches, but the reader spends most of the novel submerged in her experience of the summer of 1969.Īlmost entirely lacking in stale period detail, the book is a trancelike accumulation of intense adolescent feelings and myopic impressions: “slurry days,” blushes “clotting” cheeks, dresses “stuttering with loose stitching”, the “brackish sea” of an older girl’s cocaine-coated mouth when she kisses Evie. One of the pleasures of Emma Cline’s first novel, The Girls – in which an unhappy 14-year-old in California takes refuge with a raggedy group not unlike the cult that surrounded Charles Manson – is its immediacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The leper then bursts into flames.Īs a child, Arent and his father went into the woods to hunt. As they are all boarding the ship, a leper prophesies that the ship won’t reach its destination. ![]() Sara plans to leave her abusive husband upon reaching Amsterdam. Other members of the voyage include governor-general Jan Haan, his wife Sara, his mistress Creesjie, Predikant Sander Kers, and several nobles. Pipps and his sidekick Arent Hayes are set to be transported back to Amsterdam aboard the Saardam. In 1634, investigator Samuel Pipps of the Dutch East India Company is arrested in Batavia. Set in 1634, it features a detective trying to solve a series of inexplicable crimes aboard an East Indiaman ship. The Devil and the Dark Water is a 2020 genre-bending novel by Stuart Turton, combining elements of historical fiction, murder mystery, and horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Conditions were very harsh” in Russian prison, said Timur, 37, an H.I.V.-positive Russian soldier interviewed at a detention site in the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, and identified only by a first name, worried that he would face retaliation if he returned to Russia in a prisoner swap.Īfter he was sentenced to 10 years for drug dealing, the doctors in the Russian prison changed the anti-viral medication he had been taking to control H.I.V. Serving on the front lines seemed less risky than staying in prison, the detainees said in interviews with The New York Times. ![]() positive, Ukrainian authorities estimate based on infection rates in captured soldiers. It was a recruiting pitch that worked for many Russian prisoners.Ībout 20 percent of recruits in Russian prisoner units are H.I.V. On the battlefield in Ukraine, they were offered hope, with the promise of anti-viral medications if they agreed to fight. In Russian prisons, they said they were deprived of effective treatments for their H.I.V. ![]() ![]() ![]() Using this formula, a ten-year-old cat is similar age wise to a 53-year-old person, a 12-year-old cat to a 61-year-old person, and a 15-year-old cat to a person of 73.Īging is a natural process. For every year thereafter, each cat year is worth about four human years. In reality, a one-year-old cat is physiologically similar to a 16-year-old human, and a two-year-old cat is like a person of 21. The commonly held belief that every "cat year" is worth seven "human years" is not entirely accurate. Many cats begin to encounter age-related physical changes between seven and ten years of age, and most do so by the time they are 12. Just as people are living longer than they did in the past, cats are living longer too, and there is every reason to expect that the "graying" cat population will continue to grow.Ĭats are individuals and, like people, they experience advancing years in their own unique ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I think about the courage of any young person who has ever faced racism, that’s what we’ve created – an enduring play about a woman who lives it through school, but it travels with her through her life.” The gift I’m giving to myself is to hear my home language spoken on stage Diana Nguyen, co-writer “It’s not overt racism but subtle racism, and I felt Alice did such a great job of naming what Lucy went through. “They have the insight that some people don’t have if they don’t live, or don’t have parents or family, who come from a very working class background, and then are thrust into this world of privilege,” says Pung. ![]() The intersection of class and race is a recurring topic in Pung’s work, which the author feels Kalive and Nguyen inherently understand. “I thought there was a fabulous humour in the work and lived experience that Diana would be able to speak to and understand intrinsically,” she says. Kalive was keen to adapt it, and when it came to a co-writer, Nguyen immediately came to mind. ![]() She tore through the novel in 24 hours as a Greek-Australian, she could relate to some of the feelings it described. ![]() The idea for the adaptation had been sitting on the shelf for years when Kalive started at the MTC in 2020, right as the first lockdown hit. ![]() ![]() We both squinted to see further, but we didn't really know what we were seeing. They were all people who lived in our Therapeutic Community a long-term addiction-recovery program, named Safe Haven Village, or The Village as I liked to call it, because Greenwich had nothing on this place, it was a complete circus, a regular freak show by all definitions of the word. "I think I see her!" she shouted, referring to our mutual acquaintance August Delgado, who as always, was surrounded by a small cluster of people, all of them off into the distance. Tear drops were streaming down my face from my watery eyes, with the sun luminous and bright, but the weather still quite cold, at least for spring. We continued to run, as we laughed even harder. ![]() Strong, and intense, scorching the back of my throat, just the way I needed something to be. Black-and-Mild’s, the box said, and they were delicious. ![]() I followed, out of breath, trying to inhale the last of a cheap, fat menthol cigar. ![]() She laughed loudly, nearly tumbling over, her voice ringing through the air, despite the howl of the heavy winds. Karen, who was drenched in a thick, mauve turtle neck, and a pair of furry, suede boots, ran awkwardly about two feet ahead of me, her left leg shorter than the right making her look funny. We were scurrying down the wooden planks along the boardwalk, five minutes from our community. "Come on, Danielle!" Karen shouted over the raging winds, which were both loud and aggressive, due to April's unpredictable weather. ![]() ![]() People who are raised on a steady diet of prayer, family worship, private Bible reading, public worship, and a Reformed catechism will better know what they believe, why they believe it, and how to walk with God in every area of life. ![]() ![]() Yet catechizing is often neglected today. Using a question-and-answer method, children and families learn how to think through the truths of Scripture in an organized way. After listening to it, he concluded that if this woman had been catechized, she would likely have retained the entire sermon after the first or second hearing.Ĭatechizing is one of the most important discipleship tools available both to family and church. Curious, he listened to the sermon himself. ![]() Sinclair Ferguson relates a story in which a woman told him that she had listened to a particular sermon of his several times, and that she was getting more out of it each time. Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Heidelberg CatechismĬomforting Hearts, Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Heidelberg Catechism, by Starr Meade. ![]() |