![]() Gone is the innocent, lyrical first-person narrator of Gatsby. The gaudy opulence of West Egg gives way to blood and mud and fire, and the stench of death hangs over Smith’s novel just as the green light does Fitzgerald’s. Smith’s story is told in the third person, in terse, strong prose reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Readers looking for a prequel written in the same vein as Fitzgerald’s classic will be disappointed, however. 1 of this year, The Great Gatsby entered the public domain, just in time for Michael Farris Smith’s new novel Nick, which attempts to tell the backstory of Gatsby’s narrator. His refusal to judge makes him “privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men” and leads him to love and admire Jay Gatsby for his “extraordinary gift of hope,” even though he also represents everything for which Nick has “unaffected scorn.” ![]() Nick Carraway, the narrator, embodies this double vision. Though Fitzgerald changed his mind, Gatsby remains rooted in a Catholic sensibility, largely evident in its straddling of spirit and flesh, redemption and sin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Later that day, Allende died by suicide in his office. As troops surrounded La Moneda Palace, he gave his last speech vowing not to resign. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état supported by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. He was elected in a run-off by Congress, as no candidate had gained a majority.Īs president, Allende sought to nationalize major industries, expand education and improve the living standards of the working class. In 1970, he won the presidency as the candidate of the Popular Unity coalition, in a close three-way race. As a life-long committed member of the Socialist Party of Chile, whose foundation he had actively contributed to, he unsuccessfully ran for the national presidency in the 1952, 1958, and 1964 elections. ![]() Īllende's involvement in Chilean politics spanned a period of nearly forty years, having covered the posts of senator, deputy and cabinet minister. He was the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America. Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens ( US: / ɑː ˈ j ɛ n d eɪ, - d i/, UK: / æ ˈ-, aɪ ˈ ɛ n-/, American Spanish: 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. Secretary of the Socialist Party of Chile Valdivia, Osorno, Llanquihue, Chiloé, Aysén and Magallanes ![]() ![]() ![]() Accompanied by both an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave oppressive heat, merciless fevers, palace intrigues, gossip, and other hazards in order to satisfy her boundless fascination with all things draconian, even if it means venturing deep into the forbidden jungle known as the Green Hell. Camherst defies family and convention to embark on an expedition to the war-torn continent of Eriga, home of such exotic draconian species as the grass-dwelling snakes of the savannah, arboreal tree snakes, and, most elusive of all, the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. ![]() Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana, Mrs. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Īttentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. ![]() ![]() The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan's Tropic of Serpents. ![]() |