Also living in the crumbling house is a strict, controlling aunt Angustias, a roguish, but musically talented uncle, Roman, another uncle, Juan, who abuses his beautiful wife Gloria. Her frail, devoutly Catholic grandmother seems unaware of her miserable surroundings. She travels to Barcelona to the home of her grandmother, only to find it filthy and falling apart. The government has awarded Andrea a scholarship and a subsistence stipend so that she can attend university. The novel is narrated by its main character, Andrea, an orphan, who has fond memories of her well off family in Barcelona, and has been raised in a convent in provincial Spain. The novel is set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona. Nada, which means "nothing" in Spanish, is the first novel of Spanish author Carmen Laforet, published in 1945.
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And as is quickly revealed, Kat and Carol also share the same mental illness - bipolar - that they each struggle to handle without upending everything they’ve worked for. Despite their constantly roiling feelings, the three of them are bonded against a world that looks down on them for lacking the money and resources so many others in their elite Idaho ski town do. Her younger daughter Serena (Willow Shields) is a powerful skater who lacks Kat’s artistic touch, a detail that no one will let her forget. Carol ( January Jones) was a promising figure skater in her own right before she had Kat ( Kaya Scodelario), whose own talent blazed too brightly for anyone to ignore. “Spinning Out,” from Samantha Stratton, follows a family of three women, each determined, stubborn, and skilled in her own way. Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield and Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached to the Rev. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. 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Eusebius prepared his final edition of the work from 325 to 326.Įusebius wrote in Koine Greek, but the earliest surviving texts of the work are Latin, Armenian, and Syriac manuscripts, one of the earliest of which, National Library of Russia, Codex Syriac 1, dates to 462 CE. This was the first full length historical narrative written from the Christian point of view. Between 313 and 314 CE Roman historian and Christian polemicist Eusebius (Eusebius of Caesarea, Eusebius Pamphili) wrote Historia ecclesiastica or Historia ecclesiae, a chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st to 4th century. |