Laura applies for a job with the Bureau of the Arcane's Conservation Corps, a branch of the US government dedicated to repairing the damaged caused by the Great Rust, and meets the Skylark, a powerful mage with a mysterious past who reluctantly takes Laura on as an apprentice. A talented young queer mage from Pennsylvania, Laura hopped a portal to New York City on her seventeenth birthday with hopes of earning her mage's license. And everyone knows the future is industy and technology-otherwise knows as Mechomancy-not the traditional mystical arts. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided-between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not.
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In the 19th century, a bunch of people moved from the country to the city, industry was booming, and new technologies were rapidly changing people's lives. To really understand The Time Machine, you've got to know a bit about what was going on in the world when Wells wrote it (the first version was "The Chronic Argonauts," which he wrote for a student magazine in 1888). It's not monsters that are going to get us – it's time. He wants to warn us not to get too comfortable – that just because things are pretty good now, we shouldn't expect them to remain that way forever. Sure, this is part of Wells's story, but it's not really what he wants to warn us about. Now, if you've seen any of the movie adaptations of this book, you might think that Wells is warning us that there are monsters underneath the ground, waiting until dark to come out and get us. The Time Machine is partly a warning to his contemporaries in the 1890s. That's one thing to keep in mind when reading The Time Machine, which was Wells's first novel. Wells told a friend what he wanted written on his tombstone? You can get hold of The Body in the Library via the following links. Miss Marple’s investigations lead her to the Majestic Hotel in the seaside town of Danemouth and she (and Mrs Bantry) take up residence there among a motley collection of possible suspects.Īgatha Christie pulls the wool well over our eyes in this clever story starting with an ingenious piece of mis-direction and anyone who arrives at the correct solution on first reading has my admiration – I didn’t.īy the way, avoid at all costs the Geraldine McEwan version of this story – it’s dreadful! Joan Hickson’s is, like all the others in this series, superb. Neither Colonel nor Mrs Bantry admit to having any idea who the young women is or how she got into their home, and Mrs Bantry’s first action is to call in her good friend Miss Marple – smart thinking! The Bantrys are both highly respectable and well respected people and the presence of the body of a heavily made-up bottle blonde sprawled across a bearskin rug in front of their library fireplace seemed, to say the least, incongruous. The crime takes place at Gossington Hall, the home of Colonel and Mrs Bantry who feature in several Miss Marple stories. The Body in the Library is a vintage Miss Marple murder mystery. The Agatha Christie Challenge The Body in the Library (1942) Posted on Octoby therealchrisparkle In which the body of an unknown young woman is found in the library of Arthur and Dolly Bantry’s home, so, naturally, Mrs Bantry doesn’t hesitate to tell her old friend Miss Jane Marple. Barrett recounts it, the first 116 pages of English transcript, taken down by the scribe Martin Harris at Smith’s dictation, were lost irretrievably after Harris took them home to show to his skeptical wife. The following incident alone should be sufficient to persuade all but the most credulous that there was something fishy about the whole business.Īs Mormon historian Ivan J. One would think, for instance, that if part of the miraculous translation from the golden plates was lost in the initial stage, it should not have been too difficult for a genuine “seer” to translate the missing portion again as long as he still had the plates and the miraculous translation stones (the “Urim and Thummin”) in his possession. The origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ “Bible”-the Book of Mormon-are open to devastating criticism. Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part article. |