Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls takes place during the height of the Spanish Civil War and is roughly based on Hemingway’s experience covering the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance…
Read Moreby Daniella | Mar 2, 2018 | 20th century, Books | 0
For Whom the Bell Tolls takes place during the height of the Spanish Civil War and is roughly based on Hemingway’s experience covering the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance…
Read Moreby Daniella | Aug 7, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo is not a subservient housewife, making pasta in the background as men make plans. She is a shrewd and fearless matriarch…
Read Moreby Daniella | Jul 10, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
A Moveable Feast is a celebration of everything Paris which, of course, includes the food, none more so than the humble yet delicious oyster…
Read Moreby Daniella | Jun 19, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
The Hobbit is a truly beautiful story, made complex by the historic, literary, religious and anthropological references so intertwined with its quest…
Read Moreby Daniella | May 29, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
Nineteen Eighty-Four is Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian future, influenced by the horrors of National Socialism and the brutality of Stalinism…
Read Moreby Daniella | May 16, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 2
In Dr. Lecter, Harris carefully constructed a character that is simultaneously charming and abhorrent, personable and terrifying, passionate and indifferent…
Read Moreby Daniella | Apr 10, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
Time to get nostalgic: go grab Green Eggs and Ham from your local bookstore and take a five-minute trip back to your childhood…
Read Moreby Daniella | Apr 5, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
The Drones Club – regular hangout of Bertie Wooster and friends and the site of many a shenanigan. But was it real? The short answer is no, but the long answer is much more interesting…
Read Moreby Daniella | Mar 17, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
The dynamic and chemistry between Jeeves and Wooster is evident from their first meeting… a scene which also includes one of the best drinks in English literature.
Read Moreby Daniella | Jan 28, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
To round out American Psycho, I want to share some interesting extras on the book, Bret Easton Ellis and how to enjoy Bateman’s New York in 2017…
Read Moreby Daniella | Jan 7, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
A controversial book from the get go, American Psycho is one of the greatest cultural satires of 20th-century America – one we almost didn’t get to read…
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