#Chartwell Books

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Peter Brent (editor) - Past Present Future - Chartwell - 1977

[hplovecraftmuseum]

Front cover of 'LOVECRAFT MONSTERS A Horrifyingly Coloring Book of H.P.Lovecraft's Creatures." Published in 2023 by Chartwell Publishing Group USA. 125+ pages of highly imaginative line drawings that a fan of Lovecraft or grotesque themes in general might enjoy coloring. The artwork included herein appears to be a collaborative effort of several persons. Lovecraft hits the mainstream in one more vein. (Exhibit 533)

[abybweisse]

HPB, back on 10/3

Got these.

The Irish Folk and Fairy Tales book is printed by Chartwell Classics, like some of my other books. I'm adding to my small collection of Stephen King books, as well as to my full (as far as I know) collection of Jujutsu Kaisen. Also still trying to track down the rest of the Dune series -- at least the original 6 written by Frank.

The only book not shown here is a new paperback copy of Fairy Tale for @shinigami-mistress. I got a used hardback for myself, and the dust jacket is torn in a couple places but easily mended.

[surfingkaliyuga]

The back cover of Decisive battles of the Pacific War by Antony Preston, published in 1979 by Chartwell Books.

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[marshmallowcat666]

An old coloring book I have, I decided since I finally have a nice lineart pen to draw some little sketches in between the flowers! I turned out really nice surprisingly so I wanted to share the finished product :)

The tiny sketches you see were also done by me a few years ago, I’ve always liked drawing characters into coloring books since so often they have lots of blank space.

A note that none of the flowers were drawn by me, nor am I claiming to have drawn them! The book is called “Flowers, Coloring Book” and was made by Chartwell Books.

Closeups of my drawings under cut;

[idrawgaystffs]

Coloring :]

It’s nice to just chill and do something simple sometimes

From the book: OMG KAWAII COLORING BOOK by Chartwell Books

[expendablemudge]

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[omcars89]

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Book: Degas Art Book Etchings, Lithographs.

[master-john-uk]

Rover gifted the Land Rover to Churchill on his 80th birthday in November 1954. It was kept at Chartwell, near Westerham, Kent.

The Series I Land Rover had several special modifications, including an extra wide passenger seat to accommodate the Prime Minister's rather ample posterior, a leather clad grab handle to help Churchill pull himself into the vehicle, a soft centre armrest in place of the standard centre seat, and a rather intriguing box in the back which it is thought was designed to carry a trowel and mortar so that Sir Winston could indulge in his hobby of bricklaying.

You can see from the original log book, Sir Winston kept the Land Rover and it was passed to his son-in-law Sir Christopher Soames following the great man's death.

The Land Rover was sold for £320 at a farm dispersal sale in 1974.

In 2012, the vehicle sold at auction for £129,000, more than double the auctioneer's estimate!

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Tattoo Coloring Book 3: A fascinating collection of dynamic art to color (Chartwell Coloring Books, 23) [paperback] Coster, Patience via @amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785833749/ref=cx_skuctr_share?smid=A1J7ZDK32VF5IP

[abybweisse]

HPB haul from 9/22/23

Back on the 22nd last month, I made another run to Half Price Books.

I've never read or watched The Handmaid's Tale, so here's a chance to read it, at least. I've watched The Princess Bride many times, but I've never read it, so when I saw this I had to get a copy. And I'm hoping the cult, serial killer, and Tesla books come in handy for Black Butler analysis. I recently teased about Scalzi's latest book here, but it honestly sounds like a fun read, so I picked up a copy of that, too.

Flame Tree publishing puts out some effing beautiful book editions and journals. The copy of Moby Dick at the top, the two small myth books to the lower right, and the two journals (one is open) are all by Flame Tree. They publish all those lovely Epic Tales, Gothic Fantasy, and Classic Stories books I have a large collection of, too. The smaller copy of Moby Dick is from that other large collection I've been buying up, published by Chiltern. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is part of the Chartwell editions I've started collecting. The Homer box set is quite nice, and I also broke down and bought these Jane Austen and Shakespeare paper dolls with sticker sets.

I'm just not sure what to do with the dolls. I might place them on sturdy backing, cut them out, and give them supports to stand on the shelves.

Also hoping the Arthurian myth and Egyptian myth books might prove useful in Black Butler analysis, though I do have other books about those topics.

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Tony Roberts: Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD - Chartwell Books #0890092117, October 1978

[melit0n]

@madreemeritus on note of your comment (was just gonna reply to you, but I was not having it with the comment word count limit lmao).

First off, using the term "Psychopath" within the context given isn't ableist in the slightest. It only becomes ableist when used in a discriminatory and or deregatory way, which isn't how I've used it, nor intended to use it. Although it's not apart of official mental/medical diagnoses, it's used in hand to describe specific attributes within ASPD (Antisocial personality disorder).

Having looked back on it, it would have been more fitting to use the term sociopath instead.

Second of all, Erik did murder multiple people? I don't know what version you've been reading, but in the original French version (and in Chartwell's and Oxford World's Classic's English translations) it makes it very clear that Erik has killed people. Either in person, (e.g; Joseph Bouquet) or as a direct consequence of his actions (e.g; the concierge crushed by the chandelier). Not to mention the implied multiple people he tortured and killed during The Rosy Hours of Mazenderan. And, y'know, him almost killing Raoul and The Persian if not for Christine intervening. And threatening to blow up half of Paris if she didn't chose the Scorpion.

Finally, that is a general take-away from people who say that he should have gotten with Christine, which is, as I said, completely missing the point of the book. I agree with you that, yes, if he did not die of a broken heart, he would need some sort of therapy and human connection (because that's what humans emotionally and physically need), but having that through Christine, a young girl who he's spent his time manipulating and threatening, would not be the right type of connection. It would be artificial and, as I said, wouldn't teach him anything nor give him what he truly wants.

Anytime I see people who say 'Erik should have gotten Chirstine!' I always let out such a loud sigh because they are completely missing the point of the book.

The tradgedy is not, and never has been, the fact that The Phantom didn't get Christine, it's the fact that he never got to be human.

Erik, as a character, is so insanely full of love and yearning and that is exactly what leads people to sympathise with him; to lead them to the point of 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. He's poetic with his suffering and expresses his truama in a obsessive and borderline psychopathic way in order to deal with it and get what he wants. To have what he never had; real affection. To be kissed without his masked chucked at his face.

To be looked at with fondness instead of fear.

Leroux's whole point with the character of The Phantom isn't that he's another man who deserved the girl, his point was how real life literature Others are treated. Erik is both The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Quasimodo and Jane Eyre's Bertha Mason. Both, of which, despite the fact they don't conform to societal standards, still deserve to be treated as humans.

Erik deserves to be treated like a human despite his deformity, despite his otherness that has literally forced him into the basement of an Opera House he helped build; to be loved like any human wants love. Everybody in that book demonises him for such a human feeling and that is the point. That is the metaphorical kick to the chest.

Further, rounding back around to the 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. If Erik got Christine, he wouldn't learn that the fact he murdered multiple people to get there, that he threatened to blow up half of Paris, that he tricked a young girl into believing he was her dead father, was wrong. If he got what he wanted, with no consequences, then it wouldn't teach Erik anything, because he would never learn what real affection would be like.

That's why, at the end of the book, where Christine shows him genuine love, willingly, he absolutely crumbles because he realises that is what it means to be human. To feel human; pure love given of someone's own accord.

To love is to be changed, as the poets' say, and that's exactly what it does to him.