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Rodrigo Paestra shots his unfaithful wife dead ↓ [10:30 P.M. Summer – directed by Jules Dassin, 1966]
From 1983, 10.30 On a Summer Night is Richard Jobson‘s own adaption of texts from the passionate novel by French author Marguerite Duras (1914 – 1996), the story of a […]
1834 – 1902 ◊ The Lady or The Tiger?
⇓ . . . performed by Toyah Wilcox & Robert Fripp – Artwork by Nicholas Roerich.
In the very olden time, there lived a semibarbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbours, were […]
Robert Sheckley ⇐[1928-2005] was a prolific short story writer and one of science fiction’s great humorists. He also wrote several novels, and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
∞ A link to his works . . .⇐ ¤ «In a land of clear colours» […]
→http://www.online-literature.com/hh-munro/← 1870 – 1916 ¤ The Open Window ⇐
The Open Window is a short story about Frampton Nuttel. Mr. Nuttel heads out to the countryside to calm his nervous condition, he takes along with him a handful of introduction letters his sister had given him. Mr. Nuttel visits the home of Mrs. […]
1890 – 1937 ¤ The Call of Cthulhu. ◊ Call of Cthulhu _ HP Lovecraft ⇓ Audio Book
Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival… a survival of a hugely remote period when… consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide […]
[1809 – 1849]→bio
♥ The Tell-tale Heart
A wonderful animated short film of 1953 based on Edgar Allan Poe short-story. The story told by a mad man has a dark visual with a perfect work of narration by James Mason. It is a UPA Production and was the first cartoon to […]
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1939, she is Canada’s most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts and books for children, her works having been translated into over 30 languages. Her reviews and critical articles have appeared in various eminent magazines and she […]
[1938 – 1988] ¤ Cathedral ←[read] ⇓ Listen
• Plot Overview
The narrator says that his wife’s blind friend, whose wife has just died, is going to spend the night at their house. He is not happy about this visitor and the man’s blindness unsettles him. He explains that his […]
1921 – 1995
←The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith, is the first of five books featuring the con man Tom Ripley. As the story begins, Tom is a twenty-three-year-old living in New York. He comes from a fairly disadvantaged background, but has aspirations to a better life. An accomplished liar and fraudster, […]
¤ ‘Brave New World’
←Listen to Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) himself introducing a radio adaptation (in two parts) of his book in 1956, revisiting his predictions in 1931…
«Brave New World» is a fantastic parable about the dehumanization of human beings. In the negative utopia described in my story, man has […]
George Orwell (1903 – 1950) was the pen name of Eric Blair, a British political novelist and essayist whose pointed criticisms of political oppression propelled him into prominence toward the middle of the twentieth century. He could not turn a blind eye to the cruelties and hypocrisies of Soviet Communist Party, which had […]
[1865 – 1936]
⇒[read]⇐ «The Jungle Book» ⇒[listen]⇐ ⇓ Disney’s Jungle Book _ 1967 [clip]
• ‘I Wanna Be Like You’
Now I’m the king of the swingers – Oh, the jungle VIP I’ve reached the top and had to stop and that’s what botherin’ me I wanna be a man, mancub, […]
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¤ My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell (1925 – 1995) telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935-39. It describes the life of the Durrell family there in a humorous manner, […]
1850 – 1894 ¤ The Beach of Falesá The story is told in the first person by John Wiltshire, a British copra trader on the fictional South Sea island of Falesá. Upon arriving on the island, he meets a rival trader named Case, who (in an apparently friendly gesture) arranges for him to be «married» to a local girl named Uma […]
[1857–1924]
A Polish-born English novelist, master in the formats of long short story and novella, a form of story longer than conventional short story but shorter than a novel. Some of Conrad’s most acclaimed works have been written in these formats, most notably Heart of Darkness.
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Herman Melville [1819 – 1891]
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Fancy reading this sad Tale of Wall Street? → ⇒
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties…
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•→ G.K. Chesterton in Sight & Sound ← [1874 – 1936]
¤ The Oracle of the Dog →
[included in Gerald Durrell‘s 1990 anthology «Best Dog Stories»]→
The Oracle of the Dog story is what is known as a locked-room puzzle. A murder is committed with out a […]
(1876 – 1916)→ http://london.sonoma.edu/←
¤ Call of the Wild →
Buck, a physically impressive dog, is living the good life in California when he gets stolen and put into dog slavery. For him, this means pulling a ridiculously heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice with little […]
1917 – 1967
Lula Carson Smith (Carson McCullers) was born in Columbus, Georgia. From the age of five McCullers took piano lessons and at the age of 17 she moved to New York to study piano at Juilliard School of Music. However, she never attended the school – she managed […]
¤ John Steinbeck [1902 – 1968]
A leading writer of novels about the working class and a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression, John Steinbeck worked as a laboratory assistant and farm laborer to support himself through six years of study at Stanford University, where he took only those […]
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