Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning .
One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.
Most scholarly writing about Joyces Ulysses has concentrated on its parallels with Homer's Odyssey, Catholic theology, Dublins streets, Shakespearean references (especially Hamlet} , all of which, and much more, Joyce included in his novel but emphasizing the interpretation of these overlays to the story has led to the book appearing almost impenetrable to readers who might otherwise enjoy it.
An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himselfMacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.
From the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today - this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today.
With sly sophistication and ebullient charm, Lila Azam Zanganeh shares the intoxication of delirious joy to be found in reading - in particular, in reading the masterpieces of 'the great writer of happiness' Vladimir Nabokov.
Esta mirada a la cultura escrita colombiana del siglo XX, a través del famoso y longevo manual de historia de Henao y Arrubla, 1911, los Escolios a un texto implícito, publicados por Nicolás Gómez Dávila entre los sesenta y los noventa, y un cuento y tres novelas de Gabriel García Márquez, busca comparar la manera como estos textos construyen la narrativa del Uno y el Otro en las tradiciones de nuestro pasado.
Stanley Spencer (1891 - 1959) has recently been recognised by a wide general public, as well as by art historians, as probably the greatest English painter of the twentieth century.
Ocho articulos academicos de Claudio Maiz, Maria Paula Pino Villar, Alejandro Paredes, Emiliano Matias Campoy, Pablo Ponza, Ramiro Esteban Zo y Gabriel Motali, sobre las redes intelectuales que se crearon en Latinoamerica durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX en torno de las revistas culturales Crisis, Forja y Terra.
Agave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - 1830 als Freiin von Dubsky auf Schloß Zdislavic bei Kremsier in Mähren geboren, genießt Marie eine klassische geistige Bildung, bereits mit siebzehn unternimmt sie erste literarische Versuche.
Whatever the celebration, whatever the day, whatever the occasion, Helen Steiner Rice possessed the ability to express the appropriate feeling for that particular moment in time.
If the mere mention of Shakespeare fills you with dread, evoking memories of arduous afternoons spent in stuffy classrooms with eccentric English teachers, it is time to reconsider that far from being three-hour marathons of unintelligible boring rubbish, Shakespeare's plays are in fact exciting, tragic, funny and often downright rude - full of memorable plots, great insults, filthy jokes and eccentric characters.
