The song, with Speaks's music, was sung by Frank Sinatra with alterations to the text, such as "broad" for "girl", which were disliked by Kipling's family. Other critics have identified a variety of themes in the poem, including exotic erotica, Victorian prudishness, romanticism, class, power, and gender. It has been criticised as a "vehicle for imperial thought", but more recently has been defended by Kipling's biographer David Gilmour and others. The poem became well known, especially after it was set to music by Oley Speaks in 1907, and was admired by Kipling's contemporaries, though some of them objected to its muddled geography. The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. " Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892. Moulmein from the Great Pagoda, Samuel Bourne, 1870
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"Peter," said little Benjamin, in a whisper, "who has got your clothes?" He looked poorly, and was dressed in a red cotton pocket-handkerchief. He came round the back of the fir-tree, and nearly tumbled upon the top of his Cousin Peter. Little Benjamin did not very much want to see his Aunt. She also sold herbs, and rosemary tea, and rabbit-tobacco (which is what we call lavender). Rabbit was a widow she earned her living by knitting rabbit-wool mittens and muffatees (I once bought a pair at a bazaar). That wood was full of rabbit holes and in the neatest, sandiest hole of all lived Benjamin's aunt and his cousins-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter. 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Packer, the elder statesman of evangelical theology-and had been for some time. Packer in Cambridge in the mid-1980s when I was a doctoral student at Cambridge University. Marigold, still obsessed with her long lost lover Micky, Star's father, successfully searches him out at a concert and brings him home to meet his daughter. The author deftly balances the pressures placed on Star and Dol, who often wind up caring for their mother and hiding her condition (revealed finally as bipolar disorder) from others, with more universal childhood experiences such as flirting with boys (for Star) and making friends (for Dol). Marigold, a binge drinker, subjects the girls to dramatic, sometimes frightening mood swings, which render her by turns delusional, agitated and withdrawn. Subsisting on welfare, the trio has moved frequently, which has been especially hard on Dolphin (aka "Dol"), who, unlike Star, is plain, wears hand-me-downs and is constantly teased by peers. Ten-year-old narrator Dolphin lives with her 13-year-old sister Star and their beautiful, tattoo-covered mother, Marigold, in a Housing Trust flat outside London. ) again affectingly portrays an adolescent in a remarkably real and wrenching situation. The only thing the villains need now? The object that the twins possess. The bat god, Camazotz, and Ixkik' (aka Blood Moon) have taken them out of commission … and the godborns are their next target. Even more shocking is the news that the Maya gods have gone missing. After a shocking betrayal, Zane finds himself at SHIHOM sooner than expected. But when Zane tracks down the last kid on his list, he's in for a surprise: the "one" is actually a pair of twins, and they're trying to prevent a mysterious object from falling into the wrong hands. Anything would be better than how he has spent the last three months: searching for the remaining godborns with a nasty demon who can sniff them out (literally). You will meet the scariest gods you can imagine, the creepiest denizens of the Underworld, and the most amazing and unlikely heroes who have to save our world from being ripped apart."–Rick Riordan Zane Obispo has been looking forward to his training at the Shaman Institute for Higher Order Magic, and not only because it means he'll be reunited with his best friend, Brooks. Cervantes is about to take you on a trip you will never forget, through the darkest, strangest, and funniest twists and turns of Maya myth. Cervantes' epic finale to the Storm Runner trilogy, a tale of mystery, magic, and mayhem featuring gods from both Maya and Aztec mythology, now in paperback. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents J.C. |