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The “Mad Mick” series of novels by Franklin Horton are pretty quick and interesting post-apocalyptic fiction reads. The novels are set in the United States where Conor Maguire is trying to survive following a terrorist attack that had resulted into a meltdown of society.
Aug 20, 2021 · Two violent men headed for an inevitable showdown and nothing in their lives will ever be the same again. This is the crossover book that readers have asked for—the two biggest characters in two powerful series meeting for the first time.
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Charles Dickens, an important English novelist of the nineteenth century, was born on February 7th, 1812 at Portsmouth, Hampshire, in London and died on 9 June 1870. He is renowned as one of the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. His most important works include Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, Our Mutual Friend, and Davi...
David Copperfield is born right six months after his father’s death at Blunderstone, in Suffolk. An unconventional great aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, attended his mother in the night of his birth, yet soon leaves shortly and furiously after knowing that the boy has been born as only a baby girl can take her name. With a pretty young mother and a dev...
David Copperfield
The narrator of the story and the protagonist of the novel who is born an orphan. As an extremely sensitive child, he experiences cruelty and child labor when his widowed mother courted an unkind man, Mr. Murdstone. After his mother’s death, he escapes from the tyranny of his step-father and goes to Miss Betsey. There he, somehow, lived a life of comfort, however, during his higher studies he faces little financial problems is paying for his articles. David develops and grows out of circumsta...
Clara Copperfield
She is the mother of David Copperfield. She is understanding and beautiful mother, whose first husband dies before David is born. She marries an unkind man Mr. Murdstone and being unable to cope with life, is fated to die too young.
Edward Murdstone
He is Clara’s second husband and David’s short-tempered step-father. He mistreats David and his mother. He is a symbol of meanness and untrustworthiness. His unkindness is moved with brutality, and his arrogance limits on the messianic.
The Trouble of the Feeble
The novel, David Copperfield, explore the idea of the abuse done by powerful to the weak and helpless people. To illustrate the concept that exploitation the main principle of industrially developed society, women, orphans and mentally disabled people are focused. The novel describes Dickens’ own experience of child labor and debtors’ prison. Even though the characters in the novel are morally good, however, the suffer retribution from the powers that are superior to themselves. The most inte...
Impartiality in Marriage
Equality among the spouses in the marriage guarantees a happy and proper life. This theme of the novel is illustrated through Mr. Strong’s marriage. Dickens views in a happy marriage, neither of the spouse overpowers others; moreover, the views that people inferior who overpower their partners. On the other hand, Dickens condemns characters who endeavor to entreat a sense of dominance over their partners. In order to improve David’s mother character, Mr. Murdstone crushes her spirit. He force...
Wealth and Class
Charles Dickens, in David Copperfield, condemns his society to measure the value of a person through his wealth and class status. Through Steerforth, Dickens shows that wealth, power, and nobility are traits the more often corrupt people than improving them. Steerforth is narcissist and unfaithful that is mostly caused by his class status. While, Mr. Peggoty and Ham, on the other hand, are substantial, caring and compassionate, though they are poor. In Dickens’ time, it was believed that thos...
DavidCopperfieldis a complex investigation of psychological development that makes it Freud’s favorite. The novel flourishes in the merging elements of a fairy tale with open-ended maturation process of the protagonist. The novels display the idea of a fatherless child whose tranquil childhood is disturbed by the masculine control of his stepfather...
The tenth installment in the bestselling post-apocalyptic military thriller series THE MAD MICK. After Chinese missiles destroy Camp David, the Lightspeed organization is in shambles. Self-appointed president Walter Lightspeed is dead and he’s taken the secrets of his wireless power grid with him.
Jul 19, 2022 · English crime author Mick Herron didn’t begin his writing career with the Slough House series, but there’s no doubt these novels represent his most successful work. The London setting, cast of memorable characters and espionage storylines have made the series ripe for adaptation, and it’s no surprise Apple pulled all the stops, casting ...
Jul 11, 2018 · David Cartwright, River’s grandfather, took on a caretaker role after his daughter Isobel left River with him. Decisions he made decades ago as an MI5 leader result in horrible consequences. We also meet Frank Harkness, CIA agent turned Fagin to a bunch of wayward children spies.
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When a series of devastating terror attacks brought down the United States, Conor and Barb assumed they were safe in their compound. They had everything they needed. They were armed and highly trained. Then Barb was kidnapped. The kidnappers didn’t know why Conor was known as The Mad Mick.
