I didn’t even remember I had this book until I came across it while looking for something else in a box of books. It’s certainly not a title I recall seeing in the bibliographies of fur trade histories. I inherited… Continue reading →| MarzAat
‘The Spectre Bridegroom’ and ‘The Pride of the Village’ by Washington Irving, from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819–20), in ‘Rip van Winkle’, ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ & Other Stories. Wordsworth Classics, 2009. Two tales about true love, yet one’s a tragedy and the other a comedy; one is set in rural England, another … Continue reading Death and the maiden: #ShortStorySeptember| Calmgrove Books
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Revenant d’un voyage en Espagne, en Andalousie pour être plus précis, j’ai eu envie (voire besoin, parce que j’ai adoré ce que j’y ai vu) de prolonger un peu le plaisir. Et parmi ce qui m’a le plus frappé, il y a eu le splendide Alhambra de Grenade. Quoi de... Suite -> Cet article Contes de l’Alhambra, de Washington Irving est apparu en premier sur Lorhkan et les mauvais genres.| Lorhkan et les mauvais genres