However, Susan Moody changing Colin into a bisexual, who calls out Dickons's name while being intimate with Mary and so on and so on was and still is not in any even conceivable way my idea of a remotely acceptable sequel to The Secret Garden by any stretch of the (of my) imagination.Īnd yes, for those individuals (for those readers) who might try to claim that Susan Moody's writing is interesting and that one should give this book a chance, well, I really did try to give Return to the Secret Garden more than a chance. Now indeed, I would not have minded if the author, if Susan Moody had altered her featured characters somewhat (I mean, children do grow up, and they do change), and I would also not have even minded some controversial, adult topics appearing in Return to the Secret Garden. I do not (and this thankfully so) remember all that much about Susan Moody's Return to the Secret Garden except that I indeed have found it absolutely and totally horrid and consider it a massive and unforgivable insult to both Frances Hodgson Burnett and anyone who has read and loved The Secret Garden.
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The Long Flight Home is a charming historical novel by Alan Hlad. The birds, with instinct nurtured by breeders for hundreds of years, will return to the Shepherds’ farm with that vital intelligence strapped to their legs. Their pigeons will be parachuted into France, in the hope that partisans with information on Nazi movements will find them. Susan and her father Bertie breed and train homing pigeons and have been recruited by the British government. A fistfight leads to his arrest and rejection by the RAF, but pure luck leads him to parole on Susan Shepherd’s farm. When Ollie Evans of Buxton, Maine hears of the blitz, he sneaks onto a Canadian steamer to join Great Britain’s Royal Air Force. London is only twenty miles away, and at night Susan watches the hellish glow from hundreds of fires set by incendiary bombs. Peace ends on September 7, when Luftwaffe bombers roar over Susan Shepherd’s farm in one massive wave after another. However, Epping, near the mouth of the Thames River, has been spared. France has surrendered, British soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk in June, and in July the Nazi navy began to blockade British shipping. In September 1940, England’s war with Germany is a year old. Essays and a translation of Euripides’ tragedy reads as a companion to the play, that is a work which not only opens new horizons to Greek theatre specialists but which also guides non-specialists and students into the play. Both scholarly and didactic, Looking at Medea. Is it possible, in 2014, to offer new significant insights into Euripides’ most discussed play? Founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus, editor or author of several books on Ancient Greek drama and translator, David Stuttard, and the twelve contributors to the collection do meet the challenge to provide their readers with compelling and original outlooks about the theatrical, historical and political qualities of the work. Essays and a translation of Euripides’ tragedy raises great expectations. 1 "Euripides’ Medea is one of the most often read, studied and performed of all Greek tragedies": such an introduction of the great Greek classics by Bloomsbury, the publisher of Looking at Medea. |