By Mary McCarthy

A riveting and unconventional mystery a few motley workforce of plane passengers taken hostage via militant hijackers

En path to Iran, a aircraft is captured via center japanese terrorists rationale on conserving hostage the committee of politicians, spiritual leaders, and activists on a project to enquire alleged human rights violations through the shah. however the kidnappers quickly detect that there's a higher treasure onboard. one of the passengers are renowned artwork creditors with entry to a few of the world’s most beneficial paintings—priceless works that can fund international terrorist actions for decades.

After the captured airplane units down in a distant Dutch farming collective via the ocean, occasions move quickly and frighteningly awry. As negotiations with executive organizations stall, issues over infrequent paintings threaten to trump the regard for human lifestyles, and either captors and captives will face sour truths approximately their conflicting values, manners, and ideologies because the ticking clock races inexorably towards an explosive endgame.

Mary McCarthy’s masterful Cannibals and Missionaries is a notable novel of occasions and ideas that sheds gentle at the tragic foibles of human nature whereas exploring the terrorist psychology with ultimate intelligence and insight.

This booklet positive aspects an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy together with infrequent pictures from the author’s estate.

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As incredible as it may seem, there is considerable paleographical and codicological support for the view that the Beowulf MS actually preserves the last formative stages in the creation of the epic. Three lines of text thematically related to the new text on the palimpsest have been imperfectly, but deliberately, deleted on the next folio, verso. The erasing was never finished, though it seems likely that the vellum was being prepared for a new text, as well. Presumably, both folios are part of the same revision.

Their tacit justification for this decidedly unorthodox procedure is that the MS cannot possibly hold any relevant textual evidence that FSS would not show as well. For, however variegated and contentious Beowulf studies are in all other respects, there was until very recently complete unanimity in the view that Beowulfis an early Anglo-Saxon poem preserved in a late Anglo-Saxon MS. The chronological gulf between the poem and the MS is usually reckoned to be two to three centuries. Under these circumstances, we are lucky to have an extant MS at all, but still rather unlucky to have such a late one.

Three lines of text thematically related to the new text on the palimpsest have been imperfectly, but deliberately, deleted on the next folio, verso. The erasing was never finished, though it seems likely that the vellum was being prepared for a new text, as well. Presumably, both folios are part of the same revision. An analysis of the construction of the Beowulf MS provides a possible explanation for the purpose of this revision. The palimpsest begins a Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript Kevin S.

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