![]() ![]() ![]() Credit is nevertheless given to Henry Cary’s splendid blank-verse version of 1814 (Coleridge adored it), and to the heroic 13-year enterprise of Dorothy Sayers for Penguin Books. Dante, as he observes, was never so “mealy-mouthed”. ![]() They preferred “a sound obscene” to the candid blast of Dante’s farts. (His award-winning West Indian travel books are worth hunting down.) Quoting the Italian maxim traduttore traditore (the translator as traitor), Thomson shows how prim English clerics flinched at words like “cul”, meaning arse. Ingeniously, he compares Dante’s castigation of a Florence fattened by banking and the sale of luxury goods to the outraged expostulations of Sir Harold Acton, when “weekend Surrey” arrived in Florence with vulgar expectations of Marmite jars and Twinings tea.Ī beguilingly light tone masks but never mars Thomson’s impressive scholarship. Playfully, he spots a modern Beatrice in the yearning lyrics that track a young beauty’s careless impact upon Brazilian beach-watchers (“But when she passes. (Almost half of the inhabitants of his Inferno are Florentine.) The fun comes when Thomson unleashes his imaginative gifts. Succinct but admirably wide-ranging, Ian Thomson’s richly illustrated exploration of Dante’s masterpiece opens with a brief account of the poet’s life both in Florence and later in the bitter exile during which he took revenge upon his native city. ![]()
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The Dutch residents, who have lived there for generations, believe the area is bewitched, either by “a High German doctor, during the early days of settlements an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe” (3). ![]() The narrator notes that Sleepy Hollow has a somnolent, mysterious quality. Two miles north of Tarry Town is a valley called Sleepy Hollow, which is where the main action of the story takes place. Dietrich Knickerbocker, a fictional Dutch historian of Irving’s invention, narrates the story, which is set near the northern New York port village of Tarry Town (real name Tarrytown, where Irving settled in 1835), situated on the Tappan Zee River (also the name of the real river that runs through the region). ![]() ![]() Introduced by Diana Souhami, author of the acclaimed biography The Trials of Radclyffe Hall. As her ambitions drive and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. And when Stephen Gordon reaches maturity, she falls passionately in love with another woman. In the stifling grandeur of Morton Hall, the locals begin to draw away from her, aware of some indefinable thing that sets her apart. ![]() ![]() But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. She is an ideal child of aristocratic parents who grows up to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. Stephen Gordon (named by a father desperate for a son) is not like other girls: she hunts, she fences, she reads books, wears trousers and longs to cut her hair. ‘What do I care for the world’s opinion? What do I care for anything but you!’ First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. Banned on publication in 1928, it then went on to become a classic bestseller. ‘One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian literature’ NEW STATESMANĪ powerful novel of love between women, The Well of Loneliness brought about the most famous legal trial for obscenity in the history of British law. ‘A beacon for sexual self-discovery’ HEPHZIBAH ANDERSON, BBC CULTURE ![]() ![]() THE MOST FAMOUS LESBIAN NOVEL FOR DECADES – AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ![]() ![]() Honestly it wasn’t enough with what they got. I wanted her in laws to suffer for everything they did to her. But im only giving it 4 stars because i needed more couple time. My goodness, how I cried when she read the cheating bastard’s letter, I wanted to hug her and give her comfort. I was happy she was able to help her too. ![]() I was a bit scared when the heroine’s husband fake wife (heroine from book 1) met her for the first time. I liked his parents very much, how they supported the heroine when she needed the most. And he does there’s no doubt in my mind of that. ![]() I needed for someone to loved the heroine whole heartedly. ![]() I get that she had her cousin’s back but the way she acted with the heroine when she met her had me wanting to bitch slap the woman.įor a moment I was scared because he also was a broken man. I liked how he became her friend despite everything.Īlthough I did wanted to slap Crystal’s face when she met the heroine. How she was able to pick herself after everything that happened to her. I’ve never cheered for a heroine so much like I did with this heroine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hamid is a Pakistan writer who has written four novels, namely Exit West, Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. The story was published in the year 2007. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, written by Mohsin Hamid, is a metafictional novel that displays Changez’s view towards American society in general. Finally, a conclusion is made regarding the novel and whether there is convincing evidence to support the narrator’s point of view or provides room for the reader to develop thereon the end of understanding of the issue discussed. It considers the perspectives available or unavailable in the novel, the reliability of the narrator whether the narrator can be relied upon or not, and examines if the use of perception complicates or reinforces the national or the ethical stereotype. Based on the narrator’s point of view, one can develop a deeper understanding of the issues discussed or, on the contrary, a limitation. It discusses how the narrator’s point of view shapes or limits one’s understanding of the events that unfold in the story. The study is a critical review of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel written by Mohsin Hamid. ![]() ![]() ![]() In January and February 2016 Sarah was the UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence in Prague. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, and was longlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize. Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated in 1986 with a journalism degree, worked for a newspaper for about a minute, but soon fell out of love with that profession. No matter what angle you take of his work, Palahniuk is a solid success as a writer, so a memoir of his writing life would surely prove interesting. Let it be noted that people have literally fainted at readings of his short fiction. Another novel, 2001’s Choke, has been adapted for film by Clark Gregg, as well, resulting in the 2008 dark comedy/drama of the same name. His 1996 novel was produced into David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. For perspective, some ‘bestseller’ lists only require a few thousand copies to be sold for inclusion. His books have sold in the millions, which for most authors is nearly impossible in our current literary landscape. Chuck Palahniuk is about as well known as an author can be in our day. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the ultrafeminine messages that come along with it. Yes, she's talking about the princess complex-the little-girl love affair that starts with Cinderella and ends with sheets and toothbrushes and cups and tiaras and home décor and pint-size wedding gowns and myriad other products. In her new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Orenstein documents her struggle to do just that: raise a daughter who is happy and self-confident amid a world that encourages little girls to engulf their rooms in pink chiffon and rhinestone tiaras. What if, after all that, I wasn't up to the challenge myself? What if I couldn't raise the ideal daughter?" "I was supposed to be an expert on girls' behavior. "I was terrified at the thought of having a daughter," she writes. All of which is why, when Orenstein got pregnant, she kept to herself a dirty secret. Peggy Orenstein knows this all too well: she's written about girls for years as a critic for The New York Times, and her 1994 book Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap was a bestseller (as was her 2007 one). When it comes to raising girls, today's moms have plenty to worry about: self-image, depression, eating disorders, and, of course, a culture that teaches women that their worth is as much about their beauty as it is about their smarts. ![]() |