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¤ James Joyce [1882 – 1941]
‘The Dead’ [«DUBLINERS»] – Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death.
At 15–16,000 words this story, closing the short-story cycle ‘Dubliners’, has also been classified as a novella. […]
Pseudonym of Michael O’Donovan [1903-1966], playwright, novelist, and short-story writer
⇒Interview⇐[1957]
¤ «First Confession» ⇓
All the trouble began when my grandfather died and my grand-mother – my father’s mother – came to live with us. Relations in the one house are a […]
[1847 – 1912]
• Click pic for Bram Stoker‘s book →
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•→ http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks ⇐
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Originally released in 1922 as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, director F.W. Murnau‘s chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker’s Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror […]
¤ 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 […]
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⇔ 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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¤ Edward Lear [1812-1888] There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, «It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard.»
•→ http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/learwk.html
∇ «The Duck and the Kangaroo» […]
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” [1854 – 1900] “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” ♥ The Happy Prince ←
There is a statue of a gold prince in the middle of a really unhappy town. Then a swallow comes to sit on the statues plinth. Then the swallow sees the happy […]
• There’s this amazing site on the Net . . . ⇒
It offers a hell of a lot of readers for the wee ones. The titles have been arranged in three categories: young children, older children & young adults. They’re all lushly illustrated and some of them include audio support. […]
•→ ‘SKELETON WOMAN AND THE HUNTER’ [Hopis’ legend]
♦ This Inuit legend tells of an unlikely love story between a young fisherman and a ghoul of the sea. A beautiful, hand drawn animation, directed by Edith Pieperhoff, based on a short story by Clarissa Pinkola Estes ↓
Skeleton Woman […]
These fanciful, sometimes brutal tales, revel in the art of storytelling. The underlying suggestion of the Arabian Nights is that a fantastically precious jewel exists which, when it comes into contact with people, actually changes them. The jewel is the magnificently powerful art of story. There may not be any […]
«EARLY ON A rainy Sunday afternoon in November a man was hurrying down Third Avenue, past closed and barred florist shops and newsstands, his hands stuffed into his pockets and his head bent against the wind…»
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, David Leavitt‘s […]
A few extracts from Laurie Anderson‘s Stories form the Nerve Bible.
•→ On The Way To Jerusalem ⇐
There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior […]
Mick Harvey (born 29 August 1958) is an Australian rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist, he is best known for his long-term collaborations with Nick Cave, with whom he formed The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
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