The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls**, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released.**The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation off...

A nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s, mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice."Treasure Island" is a classic tale of adventure written by Robert Louis Stevenson featuring pirates and a young protagonist named Jim Hawkins. The pirates include Black Dog, Billy Bones, Long John Silver, and Silver's parrot "Captain Flint." Written in 1881, "Treasure Island" is probably Stevenson's most famous book

‘We are all travelers in the “wilderness of the world” travelers with a donkey.’ So Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to a friend on completing this enchanting account of a journey in rural France in 1878. Alone with his pack-donkey Modestine, and showing total disregard for discomfort, Stevenson relishes to the full his walking tour of the Cévennes. Freedom was the important thing: ‘I bless God that I was free to wander, free to hope, and free to love.’ This diary will find many kindred spirit...