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Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the …
Raymond Chandler: Zbohom moja krásna (Czech language, 1975, Penguin Books)
Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los …
To understand the strange events at The Pale Horse inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. …
"It's like the gleaming of stars in a well. And no explanation."
Born in upper-crust black Chicago—her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation’s oldest …
Nothing Like the Sun (1964) imagines the life of Shakespeare from his coming of age to middle age. To me it seemed more of a word-drunk Joycean jeu d'esprit than a historical novel, although I believe it's faithful to known historical and biographical facts. How credible to those who truly know their stuff is what that Burgess invented? I couldn't tell you. Some of the fiction is concerned with positing solutions to "known unknowns" about WS's life, the big one being, who was the "Dark Lady." Although I have some background in WS and his period, as I read I could feel a lot of whooshing as jokes and vocabulary and historical references went over my head, and the metaphysical terms in which WS's artistic development was couched were often too convoluted for me to follow. Still, the erudition and verbal pyrotechnics were grounded in a coherent story supported by …
Nothing Like the Sun (1964) imagines the life of Shakespeare from his coming of age to middle age. To me it seemed more of a word-drunk Joycean jeu d'esprit than a historical novel, although I believe it's faithful to known historical and biographical facts. How credible to those who truly know their stuff is what that Burgess invented? I couldn't tell you. Some of the fiction is concerned with positing solutions to "known unknowns" about WS's life, the big one being, who was the "Dark Lady." Although I have some background in WS and his period, as I read I could feel a lot of whooshing as jokes and vocabulary and historical references went over my head, and the metaphysical terms in which WS's artistic development was couched were often too convoluted for me to follow. Still, the erudition and verbal pyrotechnics were grounded in a coherent story supported by interesting quotidian details of Elizabethan life. On the whole, I liked it a lot. I might even return to it again someday, if I can do so with a greater knowledge of Shakespeare's plays.
Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.
In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue …
"Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in …
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy …
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's …
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly …
When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up …
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, …
