Literature

10 Things You Might Not Know About Herman Melville

1. The novel, Moby-Dick, for which Herman Melville (1819-1891) became critically acclaimed, was not an immediate success. Initially entitled, The…

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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark, Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield, and author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath…

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Oscar Wilde

1. Oscar Wilde prided himself on his tendency to challenge social conventions, especially the Victorian moral code. He alienated himself…

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James Flannery: W. B. Yeats’ Poetry Is A “Dialogue Of Self And Soul”

  Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, William Butler (W. B.) Yeats (1865–1939), is considered to this day as one of the…

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Knowing Dickens

In a key opening passage in Rosemarie Bodenheimer’s illuminating study of the inner life and “knowing” of Charles Dickens, Virginia…

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Roald Dahl: A Biography

Many children first fell in love with reading thanks to the creative storytelling of Roald Dahl, who successfully blended magic…

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A Companion to Jane Austen

Everything you ever wanted to know about Jane Austen and probably didn't even know enough to ask. An extensive, perhaps…

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Shakespeare: The World as Stage

Bill Bryson’s concise biography of William Shakespeare is brilliantly written, humorously insightful, and entirely delightful. The prose is a well-crafted…

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Looking For Hemingway: Gay Talese Talks of Men and Books

  Pulitzer and Nobel-winning writer, Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, whose simple,…

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Hemingway Deadlights: A Mystery

A legend in his own lifetime, Ernest Hemingway, better known to many as ‘Papa’ Hemingway, was without a doubt one…

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