Rex Warner: The Aerodrome

The Aerodrome


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A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and by the powerful figure of the Air Vice-Marshal. Soon he is led to leave his family, his friends and his love in order to join the aerodrome and confront the secrets of this mysterious and sinister place...

For three breakneck years the atevi labor to build a space shuttle which will bear their representatives to the "Phoenix," to strengthen connections with their new human allies and retain their bid for control of their world. But as soon as the shuttle proves spaceworthy, the captains of the "Phoenix "suddenly recall their planetary delegates, breaking diplomatic contact and initiating a vicious bid for political dominance. Gaul, now France, has The Aerodrome free pdf always been famous for its food and drink - so when, for a bet with the Romans, Asterix and Obelix travel round collecting local delicacies they start on the journey home with all sorts of goodies. First, however, they must outwit the thieves Villanus and Unscrupulus. And who's that little dog who has been following them all the way? Plagued by incessant visions of his own death, Mahler composed a tone poem "Totenfeirer" (Funeral Rite) that was to become the foundation and first movement of Symphony No. 2, posing the great question, "To what purpose have you lived?" Mahler described the middle movements as post-funeral memories, nostalgic daydreams, and a harsh awakening to the meaningless realities of real life, answered finally by the angelic folk poem "Primal Light," the terror of the Last Judgment, and the salvation of resurrections: "With wings that I wont I shall mount to the light I shall die, so as to live!" an intimation of immortality through the monument of his works.


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Author: Rex Warner
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Published Date: 23 May 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781784871000
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