![]() (If this sounds like a take-off on the Phantom of the Opera story, it is - except, of course, for the witch part.)Īnyway, at one point, Granny is ruminating about opera as a performance is underway: Nitt, nee Agnes Nitt, a sister witch from Lancre who has come to the big city to become an opera star, and (b), incidentally, solve the mystery of a series of murders at the Opera House. Granny Weatherwax is at the at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House with her sidekick Nanny Ogg in order to (a) lure back Perdita X. He employed them to wrestle with the deepest human longings, dreads and values, such as in this scene from his 1995 Discworld novel Maskerade. ![]() Pratchett’s delightfully humorous and endlessly readable books weren’t only aimed at getting a laugh. In his more than four dozen novels, Terry Pratchett was often silly, witty, wacky and goofy. ![]()
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Owen’s earlier, monumentally ambitious work-translating an entire anthology of representative Chinese literature by himself, in the 1990s-was described in “ Anthologizing as a Radical Act.” At the time, Owen said that in order to preserve the variety of the anthology’s different poetic voices, and prevent the English versions from sounding like the work of one man, he thought of himself as translating a great play with many characters. Ten years in the making, and comprising six volumes and 3,000 pages, The Poetry of Du Fu is the latest published work of Conant University Professor Stephen Owen. ![]() ![]() In today’s digital internet age, consumers are able to do their own research and comparisons, and get purchase advice from their social networks. ![]() ![]() Daniel Pink explains why and busts 3 important myths about sales. 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