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Le Rouge et le Noir (French pronunciation: [lə ʁuʒ e l(ə) nwaʁ]; meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. [1] It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and ...
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...
Lucy meets Sir Julian and is flattered when he relates his pet theory that Corfu is the setting for Shakespeare's The Tempest (a recurring theme in the novel). Max Gale joins the conversation and is more agreeable on this occasion. A dead body washes ashore, discovered by Lucy, who fears it is Spiro.
TEMPEST standards spelled out in Tempest/2-95 specify shielding or a minimum physical distance between wires or equipment carrying or processing red and black signals. [4] Different organizations have differing requirements for the separation of red and black fiber-optic cables. Red/black terminology is also applied to cryptographic keys. Black ...
Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech (U.S. edition title: Rebel Fire [1]) is the second novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series that depicts Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s. It was written by Andrew Lane and released in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2010 by Macmillan Books.
As with The Black Swan, place-names suggest that these books are set in a fantasized version of late-medieval Europe. The Five Hundred Kingdoms series is published as part of Harlequin's Luna imprint, targeted at female romance-science fiction/fantasy readers.
This prejudiced view renders Delano unable to see the black people's ability to revolt and unable to understand the slave ship's state of affairs. The issue is "not his lack of intelligence, but the shape of his mind, which can process reality only through the sieve of a culturally conditioned benevolent racism," and Delano is eventually ...
"The Ballad of Black Tom" won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella, [1] and was a finalist for the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction, [2] the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2016, [3] the 2017 British Fantasy Award for best novella, [4] the 2017 Theodore Sturgeon Award, [5] the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella, [6] and the 2017 World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction.