Learn a novel by Charles Dickens, and also you’ll nonetheless in the present day really feel transported again to the London of the eighteen-twenties. A few of that experience owes to his lavishly reportorial descriptive expertise, however much more to his method with dialogue. Dickens religionfully captured the vocabulary of the instances and locations wherein…
Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, every generation has discovered ample reason to make reference to the grim near-future envisioned by the novel. Whether or not Orwell had some prophetic imaginative and prescient or was simply a really astute learner of the institutions of his day—all nonetheless with us in mutated kind—hardly matters….
Within the video above, poet, artist, National Ebook Award winner, and “godmother of punk” Patti Smith reads a selection from Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimalestal novel The Waves, accompanied on piano and guitar by her daughter Jesse and son Jackson. The “learning” marked the opening of “Land 250,” a 2008 exhibition of Smith’s photography and artworkwork…
In 1849, a little over 175 years in the past, Edgar Allan Poe was discovered lifeless in a Baltiextra intestineter beneath mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious finish to a life marked by onerousship, alcoholism, and loss. After struggling for years as the primary American author to try…