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♣ William Butler Yeats ⇐[1865-1939] ⇓ ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’←[song]
•→ ‘The Salley Gardens’ (arranged by Benjamin Britten); voice = Yves Saelens← ⇓ «A Drinking Song«← WINE comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth […] 
¤ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, a supporter of women’s rights and an advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted […] 
[1859-1930] ♦ ◊ ♦ ◊ Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four ↓ At the outset of the novel Doctor Watson states that he has been watching Holmes takes cocaine three times a day for many months. Watson’s reluctance to oppose Holmes is finally overcome and he confronts his friend […] 
Washington Irving [1783 – 1859] ¤ Rip van Winkle This Washington Irving short-story, published in 1819, is about a man (Rip Van Winkle) who escapes from his wife’s complaining and nagging by going off into the mountains. While wandering about he meets a strange man carrying a cask of liquor who leads him to […] 
•→ Short stories by Charles Dickens ⇐ ¤ A House To Let «A House to Let» is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens’ Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a […] 
Mary Shelley [1797 – 1851] How do you do? Mr. Carl Laemmle feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning. We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein. A man of science, who sought to create a man after his own […] 
The Tragedy of Macbeth Considered by many historians as the last of the Gaelic kings of Scotland, MacBeth has become less of a historical figure and more a fictional character. At the hands of later chroniclers -mostly English- and ultimately by the pen of William Shakespeare, MacBeth changed into a despicable ruler, a […] 
«The world is wide, no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.» → John Constable (1776 – 1837) […] 
[1914-1953]← ⇔ A Child’s Christmas in Wales⇐ ◊ A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas, accompanied by some pictures of Thomas and the part of Wales where he grew up ↓
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Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend (1946-2014). The character first appeared (as Nigel) in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence. The […] |
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