Paris Review - Henry Miller, The Art of Fiction No. 28. Paris Review - Lawrence Durrell, The Art of Fiction No. 23. George Eliot (1819-1880) Biographical materials Works List of works Themes and subjects Religious themes and contexts Historical contexts Scientific themes and contexts Characterization Sitemap Plot, narrative structure and setting.
Virginia Woolf - Biography - Author, Journalist. English Writer Virginia Woolf became famous for her nonlinear prose style, especially noted in her novels Mrs.
Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Synopsis Born into a privileged English household in 1882, writer Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. Dame Beryl Bainbridge - Literature. Beryl Bainbridge began her working life as an actress and remained an entertainer, as one of Britain's most popular and best-loved novelists.
Archive - Modern Writers - In Conversation. Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy aged 70, by William Strang Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.
A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.[1] Charles Dickens was another important influence.[2] Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. Emily Brontë. Emily Jane Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /ˈbrɒnteɪ/;[1] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)[2] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Early life and education[edit] John Wyndham. "When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
" Birthplace The village of Knowle, just outside Birmingham Education. Virginia Woolf. From Modernism Lab Essays Wiki Articles The Voyage Out Night and Day Monday or Tuesday.
The Wodehouse Society. Archive - HG Wells on the Future - BBC broadcasts from the father of science fiction. The Evelyn Waugh Society. Minette Walters. Books by Minette Walters "I believe you should write what you enjoy reading.
If you attempt to write something you don't like, you'll go mad! " Since 1992, Minette Walters has been captivating readers and critics alike with her psychological novels that explore the dark heart beating below a calm surface. Her unique ability to bring crime 'uncomfortably close to home' has earned her the title 'Queen of British crime fiction', and her novels have been published in 35 different languages. Her flair for biting dialogue and razor-sharp characterisations has made each of her novels a consistent bestseller around the world.
Never one to follow rules, Minette eschews a series character, preferring instead to have each novel stand on its own. "I may write dark fantasies, but they are never entirely bleak. THE DEVIL'S FEATHER Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? Originally published in 1999, THE TINDER BOX has been reissued due to popular demand. Sue Townsend - Penguin Books UK Authors.
Sue Townsend: An Obituary 1946 - 2014 Sue Townsend was one of Britain's most popular, and most loved, writers with over 10 million copies of her books sold in the UK alone.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and has become a modern classic. Archive - Modern Writers - Release. Tom Sharpe obituary. Tom Sharpe, who has died aged 85, was in the great tradition of English comic novelists and his bawdy style and vulgar approach were said to have made bad taste into an art form – like "PG Wodehouse on acid", in the words of one critic.
Sharpe did not start writing comic novels until 1971, when he was 43, but once he got going he gained a large readership. He was a huge bestseller whose hardback editions sold like most authors only sell in paperback. Dorothy L. Sayers. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually pronounced /ˈseɪ.ərz/, although Sayers herself preferred /ˈsɛərz/ and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciation;[1] 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator, and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, which remain popular to this day. Demons In Her View: The Ruth Rendell Information Site. This section of Gusworld is a companion to the rather more comprehensive Fatal Inversions site which I created to cover Ruth Rendell's Barbara Vine novels.
A Glastonbury Romance. Introduction and summary of the plot[edit] A Glastonbury Romance has several climactic moments, before the major final one. Firstly there is Sam Dekker's decision, following his Grail vision, to give-up of his adulterous affair with Nell Zoyland, and to lead a monk-like existence. Then there's Evans' failed attempt to destroy his sadistic urge, by playing the part of Christ on the Cross at the Easter Pageant. Deborah Moggach ~ Best-selling Author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Heartbreak Hotel » Biography. Welcome to my website. Here’s a very basic autobiography, but there’s lots more information about my books – how they came about, what inspired them, plots, reviews and so on – if you click onto individual titles.
There’s also an extract from “Tulip Fever”, “These Foolish Things” and “In The Dark”. And there’s an Interview, Photos, a Newsletter with the latest developments and events, a page of Contacts, and an email address if you’d like to get in touch and ask me some questions: moggachdeborah@gmail.com. Both my parents were writers – my father wrote naval history, biographies and children’s books; my mother wrote and illustrated children’s books. Hilary Mantel - Author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
A Hypertextual & Illustrated Companion to Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. C.S. Lewis. A scholar and author, Clive Staples Lewis left his mark on the realms of literary criticism, Christian apologetics, and fantasy stories. While children know him best for the seven Chronicles of Narnia, his religious writings such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters remain popular today, and his work on Milton, A Preface to Paradise Lost, is considered a standard critical work. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Lewis was educated and lived most of his life in England. He served and was wounded in the trenches of World War I France, after which he completed his studies at Oxford University. John Le Carré. English writer known for disillusioned, suspenseful spy novels based on a wide knowledge of international espionage. Le Carré's famous hero is George Smiley, a Chekhovian character and shadowlike member of the British Foreign Service.
D.H. Lawrence Review home. Ken Kesey. Dear Internet Archivists: Once a year we ask you: help keep the Internet Archive free and free of ads. Jack Kerouac. LibriVox. James Augusta Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Hermann Hesse - Bibliography. David Guterson. David Guterson was born in Seattle in 1956. Aspects of E.M. Forster: Criticism, Summaries, Pictures ... Everything about the British Author. Helen Fielding. JP Donleavy’s The Ginger Man at 60. In 1946 a young American arrived in Dublin to study natural sciences at Trinity College. Finding a land untouched by the worst excesses of the second World War and a prevailing mood of conviviality among its inhabitants, he set about his studies.
EL Doctorow, author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, dies in New York aged 84. James Joyce - Author - Biography.com. Writer. George Orwell. J.D. Salinger (Author of The Catcher in the Rye) J.K. Rowling - Biography - Author. J.K. Rowling is the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, one of the most popular book and film franchises in history. John Berger: a life in writing. Mary Wesley. John Fowles. Minette Walters: Official Website. P.D. James: About the Author P.D. James. Main Page. Official Publisher Page. Isaac Asimov - Writer - Biography.com. Emily Brontë - Writer - Biography.com. Changing Places by David Lodge - the campus novel in full flight. Joseph Conrad - Writer - Biography.com. Amazon.com: Annie Proulx: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. Sir Arthur C. Clarke. About - Ian Rankin. Biography – The Tolkien Society. Gormenghast, the official website. Biography - British author.
Henry Miller - Author - Biography.com. Maeve Binchy, Writer Who Evoked Ireland, Dies at 72. Colin Dexter - Strand Mag. Hermann Hesse. D.H. Lawrence - Author, Journalist, Poet, Playwright - Biography.com. 82, Edna O'Brien. Joseph Conrad. J.B.Priestley. Ian McEwan Website: Homepage. James A. Michener Audiobook Collection 21 Unabridged Historical Fiction Books - James A. Michener Audiobook Torrent Downloads, Free Audio Book Torrents, 67724.
Ronald Searle. On the Black Hill. Douglas Adams' bibliography. Antoine De Saint-Exupéry. About Ayn Rand - Biography. The Official Website of Dan Brown. R F Delderfield. Harper Lee Biography. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author of The Great Gatsby) Download free ebook many format epub mobi pdf: Thirteen Novels by Frederick Forsyth (.ePUB)(.MOBI) C p snow. ANITASHREVE.COM.
19 Contemporary British Novels You Need to Read Now. American Book Review. Website of the Arthur Ransome Society (TARS) No Boats on Bannermere. How Nick Hornby Keeps His Writing Fresh. John Steinbeck (Author of Of Mice and Men) Ernest Hemingway (Author of The Old Man and the Sea) Homepage. Archive. How Green Was My Valley. Siegfried Lenz: Deutschstunde (Buchtipp) Booker club: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively.