It's hard to believe, but a Pennsylvania fire department stood back and watched as a man's home and business burned to the ground. The post Let My Home Burn Down! (1925) appeared first on Useless Information.| Useless Information
As Irene came down the stairs from her lover’s apartment, again that pointless fear suddenly overwhelmed her. Fear is a novella by Austrian-Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, first published in 1925…| This Reading Life
Simon and Kaggsy’s classics reading weeks always get me picking up older books. I found this unusual Russian novella on a giveaway pile a few years ago and it’s been on my #NovNov possibility shelf…| Bookish Beck
Edith Warton hailed it as “the great American novel”. Marylin Monroe immortalized the central character Lorelei Lee on the big screen. It was a publishing sensation. When serialised in Harper’s Bazaar, the magazine’s sales quadrupled. When published in book form, it was an instant hit. A second edition of 60,000 copies was also quickly picked … Continue reading #HYH25 #1925ReadingClub #ClassicsClub: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos→| a hot cup of pleasure
Kaggsy @ Bookish Ramblings and Simon @Stuck in a Book are once again hosting their Read the Year Club. This time around they are celebrating books first published in 1925. The idea is simple – read and review books published in 1925 between the 20th – 26th October. To get things started, I thought we … Continue reading In Review…1925| The Classics Club
A gentleman and lady travelling from Tunbridge towards the part of the Sussex coast which lies between Hastings and Eastbourne, being induced by business to quit the high road, and attempt a very rough lane, were overturned in toiling up it’s long ascent half rock, half sand. This particular lady and gentleman are Mr and … Continue reading Sanditon | Jane Austen| This Reading Life
Radclyffe Hall’s name echoes through any history of early 20th century women’s writing, or queer writing. We all know that The Well of Loneliness was banned for its portrayal of a lesbian relationship (in the so so saucy words ‘that night| Stuck in a Book
Abstract: Il saggio analizza la persistenza degli Ossi di seppia di Eugenio Montale nella poesia di Giancarlo Pontiggia e di Giuseppe Conte, due autori che, pur con visioni e poetiche diverse, hanno assunto la raccolta montaliana come fondamento di una rifondazione lirica nel contesto italiano del secondo Novecento. Se Pontiggia trasfigura l’eredità montale in una … Continue reading Vitalità degli «Ossi di seppia»: persistenze montaliane nella poesia di Giancarlo Pontiggia e di Giusep...| Diacritica
