Some summers are just destined to be pretty. Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very fir…
At the age of ten, Frances 'Fanny' Prince is sent to live with her uncle and aunt in Northamptonshire, where she is treated distantly be everyone but her cousin Edmund. One of Austen's most moral and good-hearted protagonists, Fanny is as loving and nurturing as she is an astutre judge of character, When the Crawford siblings enter their lives, Fanny seems to be the only one unaffecte by their …
Barley here follows the travels of Thomas Stamford Raffles through Indonesia and Malaysia, picking up contrast between past and present, pointing out strange parallels between Raffle's life and the story of Soekarno, Indonesia`s first president.