![]() ![]() Continue reading “Review: In the Labyrinth of Drakes” → Review: The Voyage of the Basilisk Brennan finally finds her stride in this one, having put together exactly the book I wanted to read. This is the best Lady Trent memoir yet! It’s not often that a series gets better and better as it goes, but in this series each book has been better than the last. In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, having provided fodder for gossips in several countries.Īs is so often the case in the career of this illustrious woman, the public story is far from complete. ![]() Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. ![]() ![]() Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent’s expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. ![]()
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![]() His career there is not firmly documented until 1599 and in his early years he is said to have endured hardship, taking on whatever hackwork he could to scrape a living. From 1584 to about 1588 he served an apprenticeship in Milan under the undistinguished painter Simone Peterzano (c.1540–c.1596) and by about 1592 he had moved to Rome, which was to be the main centre of his activity. His baptismal record, discovered in 2007, indicates that he was born in Milan, but he grew up in Caravaggio, near Bergamo, and takes his name from the town. Although his career was brief (he was only 38 when he died) and his output was fairly small (there are about 70 surviving pictures by him), he had an immense impact on his contemporaries, creating a bold and naturalistic style that broke decisively with the prevailing vapid Mannerism and inspired a host of imitators. The most powerful, original and influential Italian painter of the 17th century. ![]() 30 September 1571 died Port’ Ercole, 18 July 1610). ![]() ![]() His stories and novels are rich with riddles, mysteries, and sleights of textual hand. Latro must ask himself, Wolfe said, “What is worth writing, what is going to be of value to me when I read it in the future? What will I want to know?” These are questions that Wolfe has been asking himself, in one form or another, for decades. Instead, Latro might reveal only the truth that matters. On the phone from his home in Peoria, Gene Wolfe explained to me recently that Latro’s memory loss does not make him an unreliable narrator, as many critics assume. ![]() It could be the case, however, that Latro’s wound causes him to hallucinate. It is hinted that Latro’s wound was caused by the meddling of the gods, and, like the blind seer Tiresias, whose affliction was also the result of divine vengeance, Latro is given another gift: he can see the gods, and even speak with them. Latro has to carefully choose what he is going to write down: he is limited by time, because when he sleeps he loses his memory again, and by the medium, because there is only so much papyrus. Each night, he writes the day’s events on a scroll the next morning he reads the scroll to bring himself current. Having suffered an injury during the Battle of Plataea, a Greco-Persian War skirmish, Latro has no memory of his past. Gene Wolfe’s 1986 novel “Soldier of the Mist” centers on a Roman mercenary named Latro. ![]() Why hasn’t he found a wider audience? Photograph by Matheiu Bourgois/AP Gene Wolfe is known as the Melville of science-fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Chinaman’s Crime: Race, Memory, and the Railroad in Willa Cather’s “The Affair at Grover Station,” by Julia H. Willa Cather’s Southwestern Grave Robbers , by Carolyn Dekkerīeyond Possession: Animals and Gifts in Willa Cather’s Settler Colonial Fictions, by Alex Calder The Parthian Legacy: Irish Catholicism and Remaking Identity in Willa Cather’s My Mortal, by Vera R. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. ![]() ![]() In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.Ĭather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Willa Sibert Cather ( / ˈ k æ ð ər/ Decem– Ap) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). ![]() ![]() ![]() Though not the first fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the best known. ![]() Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 18. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.įirst appearing in print in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with " A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891 additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. Sherlock Holmes ( / ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z/) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. " The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (1927, canon) Sherlock Holmes in a 1904 illustration by Sidney Paget ![]() |