To help him pay for his food he earned extra money teaching young people to sing. And although he was tall and thin, he ate like a fat man. Ichabod did not make much money as a teacher. He had big ears, large glassy green eyes and a long nose. His head was small, too, and flat on top. His shoulders were small, joined two long arms. Ichabod Crane was a good name for him, because he looked like a tall bird, a crane. It was settled many years ago by people from Holland. Near Sleepy Hollow is a village called Tarry Town. Every night he rises from his burial place, jumps on his horse and rides through the valley looking for his lost head. The story says the man died many years ago during the American Revolutionary War. But the story that people believe most is about a man who rides a horse at night. There are many stories told about the quiet valley. The valley known as Sleepy Hollow hides from the world in the high hills of New York state. It is about something strange that happened long ago in a valley called "Sleepy Hollow". Today's story is called "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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“That’s why I chose an ordinary school.”Įvery gothic tale needs a creepy building, and the mysterious Holland House-which is rumored to be the site of a murder at Holland’s own hand-has its roots in two vintage homes from Griffiths’ life, one an art patron’s home that now houses part of West Dean College, the other on the grounds where Griffiths attended secondary school in Sussex. “I love gothic fiction and Victorian stuff, but I wanted to set the book somewhere very everyday as well, somewhere that can bridge the everyday and the more spooky and surreal,” she explains by phone from her home in Brighton. Griffiths, the bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway and Magic Men mystery series, wisely chose to set her first standalone mystery on a campus similar to West Dean College in West Sussex, where she teaches creative writing. You don’t know me.” When another teacher is found slain, this time inside the notorious Holland House, Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur believes Clare is the link between the two deaths, prompting the teacher and her teenage daughter, Georgia, to flee Sussex on a sleeper train to Scotland. When Clare seeks solace in her daily diary, she finds a chilling message written by another hand: “Hallo, Clare. Holland, whose historic home remains a landmark on the school’s campus. Ella’s death eerily mimics the plot of Clare’s favorite Victorian ghost story, “The Stranger,” by author R.M. English teacher Clare Cassidy is deeply troubled after the murder of fellow teacher and friend Ella Elphick. Made as 'silents' ceased, it dated quickly, but today retains much interest and some power.įurther reading: M Roe, 'Vandiemenism debated', JAS 24, 1989. OnThisDay 1787: Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the 'First Fleet') to establish a penal colony in Australia. On release a year later the film attracted general favour. The state government considered repression, but forbore, and in August–September 1926 much-publicised filming took place at Port Arthur. Within Tasmania this debate entailed unprecedented confrontation with the convict past. The project attracted criticism as Yankee propaganda, threatening to demean Tasmania, Australia and the Empire. With the industry booming in the mid-1920s, Union Theatres/Australian films planned a grander effort, employing American expertise – producer Norman Dawn, star Eva Novak. Stage versions of Marcus Clarke's famous novel of convictism's horrors date back to 1886, and films were shot in 1908 (partly at Port Arthur) and 1911. 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The 1968 generation in Turkey first emerged as a student movement focused on reform within the university system, but towards the end of the sixties it evolved into a revolutionary movement, eventually fighting for the use of revolutionary violence after the military intervention of 1971. Turkey consequently found itself experienced in extremes leading to the political polarization and political violence in late sixties and seventies. The study of the 1968 generation in Turkey offers a very interesting case, not only because Turkey was undergoing a big transformation during this time, with an increasing population, with a high rate of urbanization and industrialization, but also because it was a devout NATO ally as a neighboring country of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. There is an abundance of literature on the 1960s - particularly the generation’s youth movements - in the west, however it is important to study the period in different geographies in order to better comprehend the different colors of the student movements all around the globe. Equally convincing, and wrenching, is Klytemnestra’s stunned rage and grief when her husband Agamemnon sacrifices their beautiful daughter Iphigenia for a fair wind to war. When Paris shows up halfway through the book, Heywood has so skillfully built Helen’s inner life that it’s quite understandable why she runs away with the handsome prince. Both girls long for marital intimacy and companionship from the powerful men they marry, and both find their marriages lacking in different ways. Heywood retells a timeless story with fresh insight and poignancy in this debut novel exploring the battles fought by the women of the Trojan War.Īlternating between the viewpoints of Klytemnestra and Helen, Heywood begins with their childhood as daughters of the King of Sparta, when Klytemnestra, the ambitious and dutiful older sister, first finds her fate changed by her beautiful younger sibling. |