10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world
Elif Shafak
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak review – one woman's story ( The Guardian)
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Tuesday, 21 December 2021
Thursday, 1 April 2021
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Monday, 8 February 2021
The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South.
McCullers' work is often described as Southern Gothic and indicative of her southern roots. Critics also describe her writing and eccentric characters as universal in scope. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stage adaptation of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), which captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950–51.
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The first chapter of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter introduces us to John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, two good friends who live together in a town in the Deep South and who are both deaf-mutes. Antonapoulos works in his cousin's fruit store, and Singer works as a silver engraver in a jewelry shop. They spend ten years living together in this way.... ( sparknotes.com)
Friday, 5 February 2021
The amateur emigrant, by R L Stevenson
“Men are born with various manias: from my earliest childhood, it was mine to make a plaything of imaginary series of events; and as soon as I was able to write, I became a good friend to the paper maker”
(RLS, “My First Book: Treasure Island”, The Idler 6 [August 1894])
Read about Robert Louis Stevenson and The amateur emigrant
The most comprehensive web resource dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, designed for all: academics, school children and everybody interested in learning about RLS.
This is the place for information on Stevenson’s life and works – and much more. RLS is not just the author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Search the site, and you’ll find he’s also a poet, a playwright, a Gothicist, a historian, an anthropologist, a Victorian, and a Postmodernist. In short, an outstanding modern writer, constantly experimenting.
The RLS Site supports the new Stevenson edition, EdRLS. For latest news and more, visit the EdRLS Blog.
Learn about R L Stevenson's travel writing
The amateur emigrant, 1895
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