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Mark Haddon was born in Northampton in 1962. In 2003 his novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was published and has been hugely successful. It is the first book to have been published simultaneously in two imprints – one for children and one for adults. It has won a string […] 
⇐indians.org/nativewire-american-indian-videos ¤ →Oral tradition – storytelling⇐ Θ A collection of Native American folktales and traditional stories: indexed tribe by tribe to make them easier to locate ↓ •→www.native-languages.org/legends⇐ Θ Links to several stories of Native American Indian Lore from several Tribes across Turtle Island ↓ febrero 17th, 2015 | Tags: USA, story, doc, links | Category: LISTEN & READ, VDO | Leave a comment 
Narrated by Derek Jacobi and Joseph Fiennes this is one of the most famous ancient sagas ever told, Beowulf tells the tale of a young Danish warrior called Beowulf who goes to the aid of King Hroðgar and his people, who are attacked by a half-man half-monster named Grendel. ♦ ◊ ♦ 1998 […] 
•→http://www.history.com/shows/vikings← The TV series, written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History, is set at the beginning of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793. The first season portrays Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) as a young Viking warrior who longs to discover civilizations […] 
This site – The Drabblecast: → http://www.drabblecast.org/ offers . . . Strange Stories, By Strange Authors, for Strange Listeners The Drabblecast is an award-winning, illustrated, listener-supported audio fiction magazine, released as a free to download, weekly podcast. It features short stories at the far side of weird, including science fiction, horror, […] 
Back in 2004, in Sabi, we had the privilege to host a performance by great story-teller, Tim Bowley [1945-2017] This is one of the reviews by a colleague from EOI Boadilla, Ramón Silles: «Tim Bowley’s stories are gripping and easy to follow and they are greatly helpful to students in developing […] 
1914 – 1997 «Death smells… I mean death has a special smell; over and above the smell of cyanide, cordite, blood, carrion or burned flesh. It is a gray smell: stops the heart and cuts off the breath. The smell of empty bodies, the smell of field hospitals and gangrene…» [The Private Asshole] «I […] 
∇ Slaughterhouse Five⇐ Slaughterhouse-Five is an account of Billy Pilgrim’s capture and incarceration by the Germans during the last years of World War II, and scattered throughout the narrative are episodes from Billy’s life both before and after the war, and from his travels to the planet Tralfamadore. Billy […] 
1919-2010 J.D. Salinger‘s classic coming-of-age story portrays one young man’s funny and poignant experiences with life, love, and sex. Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one […] 
1918 – 1985 ← Read (icon or below) extract from ‘VENUS + X’ PLOT: Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, […] 
South African novelist and short-story writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Most of Nadine Gordimer‘s works deal with the moral and psychological tensions of her racially divided home country. She was a founding member of Congress of South African Writers, and even at the height of the apartheid regime, […] 
¤ Doris Lessing [1919-2013]
In her long and complex career, Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, has traversed the savannas of Africa, the crooked streets of London and the chilly reaches of outer space. Irving Howe once described her as “the archaeologist of human relations,” […] 
¤ PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA (excerpts) Olivier is an aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer and twice Olivier’s age, always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Starting on different sides of […] 
Born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England, he studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan’s works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the […] 
•→ E.E. Cummings _ A poet, playwright, novelist, and painter ⇐ ¤ The Enormous Room Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 – 1962), the author of the book, was suspected of treason while volunteering in France during […] 
¤ Ray Bradbury ⇓ [1920-2012] Φ «The Veldt« ⇐[song] A short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as «The World the Children Made» in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951. The anthology is a collection of […] 
1917 – 1993 ⇒ A diatribe against behaviourism (or «behavioural psychology») of the 1940s to 1960s as propounded by the psychologists John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner. Burgess disapproved of behaviourism as much as I do myself, calling prominent behaviourist B. F. Skinner’s most popular book, Beyond Freedom and Dignity […] 
1928 – 1982
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who befriends some […] 
This is a book by William Golding (1911 – 1993) you may have already read, or you may fancy reading in the near future. You can read the plot below. Alternatively, you can play the video and listen to a plot summary while you watch the sparknotes_animation. Set during World War II, […] 
Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) is one of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s (although none of them welcomed such label). › Born in Nottingham to working class parents, he left school at the age of 14 and served in the Royal Air Force as a wireless operator. After returning to England from Malaya, he was […] |
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