![]() Who is Corto Maltese? “He is an adventure-seeker, a dreamer, a man whose life is incessantly suspended between a dream and reality,” we learn from the cover of a comic book of his adventures. Hugo Pratt managed to successfully capture the last days of the colonial world of the beginning of the 20th century and the arrival of the rebellion of the peoples of the Third World.īut the adventures of a Maltese sailor set against the background of this fascinating era would not be so fascinating, had Pratt not combined the adventure-filled content with refined poetic climes. And yet, there is something enchanting about them, even 40 years after their first release. Hugo Pratt’s comic books may have been somewhat too sophisticated to appeal to the mass reader’s taste. Perhaps Corto Maltese arrived here too late, when the comic book’s heyday in the West had already subsided. ![]() On the banks of the Vistula it has yet to attract readers’ interest. Hugo Pratt’s epic work has been translated into dozens of languages but remains relatively unknown in Poland. Can we celebrate the birthday of a comic book character? Of course we can, if it is an exceptional character, a symbol of 1970s Western pop-culture on a par with the photographs of Helmuth Newton or the creations of Yves Saint-Laurent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Emily Brontë died when she was 30 from tuberculosis. She was shy, quiet and kept to herself, even though she was interested in other people’s life stories. ![]() She was close to her family and very attached to her home in Yorkshire. Together, they created the fictional world of Gondal, wrote poetry and read it aloud to each other.Įmily is thought to have lived a secluded life and made few friends throughout her (short) life. She was the second youngest of the surviving Brontë siblings her younger sister Anne was also her best friend. Emily BrontëĮmily only wrote one novel: Wuthering Heights. In this blog post, I don’t go into great details about the novels, but I do explain why I love/don’t love them and list some interesting facts about the authors’ lives. However, I only started reading them last year (was too busy partying at uni, I guess). I guess I first heard about the Brontës when I was in high school and then studied them properly at university (I studied English). (This «ranking» is obviously just my opinion!) ![]() ![]() ![]() The British Knight (stand-alone) opens up to MIT graduate and waitress Violet King heading to London for three months. Complicated and confusing but challenging and desperately sexy.” “He was different from all those guys in New York. Violet falls into secret affair with her new brooding, British barrister boss! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! The British Knight (stand-alone). I wasn’t looking for the fairytale but I might have found my knight in shining armor. And I’m pretty sure I see fireworks over Big Ben and hear God Save the Queen. He’s brooding, short-tempered and the most arrogant man I’ve ever met.Īs we’re fighting, out of nowhere he kisses me. And his attitude isn’t as hot as his gorgeous face, broad shoulders and tight ass. ![]() I want to lick tea from his hard abs and listen to his accent all night long. ![]() He’s as charming as James Bond and as suave as Mr. On my first commute into work, it’s a total accident when I lose my balance and fall against the most handsome Brit alive. When I’m offered a temporary job working for a barrister, I say, sign me up. It’s wall-to-wall hot British men in suits. When I’m offered the chance to leave New York to live in London for three months, I can’t pack my suitcase fast enough.Īs soon as I touch down I’m obsessing over red telephone boxes, palaces and all the black cabs.īut my favorite place is the tube. ![]() |