![]() ![]() ![]() The party of travellers consisted of four men and two women. What had caused the party to draw rein on their mounts, an assortment of horses and mules, was something else. The sight of one more unfortunate suspended on a tree no longer troubled them. The Angles and Saxons who dwelt there seemed to live by a harsh code of penalties for those who transgressed their laws, from an assortment of mutilations of the body to execution by the most painful means devised, the most common and humane being by hanging. The travellers had become used to witnessing ritual executions and punishments since they had crossed from the land of Rheged into the kingdom of Northumbria. It was not the fact that a man had been hanged on a crossroad tree that caused the small party of travellers to halt. The contorted hands, still sticky with blood, showed that the man had not died without a struggle. The clothes were torn and if the man had worn sandals then they had since been taken by scavengers for there was no sign of any footwear. The head was twisted at an awkward angle where the neck had been broken. ![]() ![]() The body swung to and fro in the faint breeze, suspended at the end of a stout hemp rope from the branch of a squat oak tree. The blood and spittle around his twisted lips had not even dried. ![]()
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The beginning of the book tells the story of her crime, when she was in her twenties, and is almost identical to the scene in the show. I wanted the details, which is what led me to Piper Kerman’s memoir, detailing her year in a women’s prison. ![]() You probably know the Netflix show Orange is the New Black, and you may or may not know that the plot is based on a true story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the listener through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America’s first president. ![]() In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. 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Archer had been tailing one of the three unusually idiosyncratic pursuers of an ancient statuette allegedly constructed by order of the Knights Templar as a gift for the King of Spain. ![]() Somewhat shockingly, the story opens with the murder of Sam Spade’s partner in private investigation, Miles Archer. ![]() The primary difference between the novel and film, actually, is that Bogey’s Sam Spade winds up being far more admirable than the trio of low-life treasure hunters scheming and betraying each other in pursuit of the “stuff that dreams are made of.” In the novel, Spade is definitely an overall better human being than those three…but just barely. Much of that film adaptation-the third movie version of the novel, by the way-features scenes left intact with huge chunks of dialogue transferred verbatim from page to screen. ![]() The Maltese Falcon is a slim novel that moves along at a rapid pace and feels almost as fleeting as watching the iconic film adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart as its world-weary private detective Sam Spade. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() Hornblower's continuing adventures, as well as his advancement to the highest ranks of the navy, are chronicled in further books, including Beat to Quarters, Flying Colours, Commodore Hornblower, Lord Hornblower, The Happy Return, and A Ship of the Line, for which Forester recived the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1939. 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