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In this first English translation in more than forty years, Anthony Briggs faithfully reveals Tolstoy’s art in stirring prose, clearing up ambiguities that have plagued many modern translations. ![]() ![]() As they seek fulfillment, fall in love, make mistakes, and become scarred by battle in different ways, these characters and their stories interweave with those of a huge cast, from aristocrats to peasants, from soldiers to Napoleon himself. 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Aubert is a devoted husband and father, and passes most of his good qualities on to his daughter. He is a very kind person, fond of nature and secluded life. At the end of the novel, Emily ends up very rich and happily married to Valancourt. Emily is often put in dangerous situations and spends much of the novel trying to avoid danger, and trying to find a way to be with her beloved, Valancourt. Emily's vivid imagination and heightened emotions can sometimes lead to her becoming overwhelmed. She is a virtuous and sensitive young woman, who has an artistic temperament and is very appreciative of natural beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() "it became clear that the only way to make the Mac do the things we needed was to write a lot of custom image-processing software. ![]() ![]() In the author's acknowledgments (in some editions), Stephenson recalls: Stephenson originally planned Snow Crash as a computer-generated graphic novel in collaboration with artist Tony Sheeder. Stephenson has also mentioned that Julian Jaynes' book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was one of the main influences on Snow Crash. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh "When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set-a 'snow crash '". Was the Command Line", Stephenson explained the title of the novel as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Macintosh computer. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy. Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is January 2060, and Paige and Warden are in the Scion Citadel of Paris, staying in a safe house provided for them by the Domino Programme so that Paige can try to recover physically and mentally from her torture in the Westminster Archon. As they wait for contact from the mysterious Domino Programme – an espionage network operating in Scion – their present begins to mirror their past. In the confines of a safe house, Arcturus and Paige begin to reconnect after following separate paths for weeks. Exhausted by her efforts against Scion, Paige has no choice but to remain in hiding, away from the revolution she started, so she can heal and come to terms with her mental and physical scars. Paige Mahoney and Arcturus Mesarthim have arrived in the Scion Citadel of Paris. ![]() ![]() An ebook exclusive which bridges the story between the previous and forthcoming installments of Samantha Shannon's international phenomenon series The Bone Season. ![]() |