Archive for March, 2010
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010John F Kennedy has long been a polemical figure in American politics but on 22 November 1963 he lost his life when he was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaz. This assassination has become one of the most controversial events in modern times, one [...]
Dox Quixote
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Don Quixote is often nominated as one of the world’s greatest works of fiction.(Most recently in a poll of leading authors around the world conducted by the Norwegian Book Clubs in 2002). The novel’s landmark status in literary history has meant it has had a rich and varied influence over later writers, from Cervantes’ own [...]
Bleak House
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Charles Dickens wrote and published Bleak House in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel opens in a London shrouded by an all-pervading fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce -v- Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation, slowly devouring an inheritance in [...]
Sense and Sensibility
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010A recent and very successful BBC production of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” has brought to the fore one of England’s most successful authors although, her six novels remain popular throughout the world. The writer, George Eliot, has said that Jane Austen was “The greatest artist that has ever written.” The first draft of “Sense [...]
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Thomas Hardy is renowned for novels which were centered on an area of South West England which he coined as “Wessex”. The area was loosely based on the county of Dorset and the towns and villages in his novels based on the towns and villages of Dorset, such as Casterbridge – which is in reality [...]