14 days ago by admin

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” - by Elizabeth Bowen

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38 days ago by Janeite Deb

The Central New Jersey JASNA Chapter posts about the Christmas celebration: “ A Jane Austen Christmas: Vignettes of Customs and Traditions,” which will include “holiday recreations as inspired by the writings of Jane Austen.” On December 10 at 7 p.m., Margaret C. Sullivan [author of AustenBlog] will ...

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89 days ago by Christopher Hudgens

download Naeem Murr’s first novel, The Boy, was a New York Times Notable Book. Another novel, The Genius of the Sea, was published in 2003. His latest, The Perfect Man, was awarded The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best Book of Europe and South Asia, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Priz ...

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97 days ago by The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester

FIRST OF ALL: I finally got around to reading Possession and I was kind of underwhelmed. For one thing, the poetry was awful. For two things, there was too much of it. For three, if you are going to write a book with a lot of letters written between people, and you are going to have like seventy pag ...

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141 days ago by joshuavorbis

Towards the end of her day in London Mrs. Drover went round to her shut-up house to look for several things she wanted to take away. Some belonged to herself, some to her family, who were by now used to their country life. It was late August; it had been a steamy, shower day: at the moment the trees ...

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150 days ago by Kevin Breathnach

Livvy Thompson, sitting beyond David, deplored these women who talked baby-talk. She felt that her own appeal to me was more serious. 'Mr Armstrong has got to play in the next set,' she said warningly. 'Hoity-toity!' thought Betty Vermont (she never used the expression aloud, as she was not certain ...

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196 days ago by Gothic Silk

Gothic Modernisms This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic’s fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the Modernist concern with the psyche and the paranoia of the everyday. The contributors ...

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201 days ago by demonik

Peter Haining (ed) - The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (Robinson, 2007) Cover: Joe Roberts 1. Raising Spectres: The Modern Tradition M.R. James - ‘Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come To You, My Lad’ A.C. Benson - The House at Treheale E.G. Swain - The Richpins Arthur Gray - The Everlasting Club A.N.L. ...

214 days ago by Mike

Solitary people don’t have relationships. If you and I were capable, of being altogether housetrained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.