Thursday, October 11, 2007

Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)

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Waugh’s moral and satiric novel of the emptiness of riches and fame has clear lessons for contemporary culture’s obsession with celebrity ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Patrick Hamilton

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Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude (1947)   Patrick Hamilton is the great forgotten man of 1930s and 1940s fiction. Hamilton ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear (1943)

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Famous now perhaps for a handful of works – Brighton Rock , Our Man in Havana , The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene was a profound st...

G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

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Chesterton’s whimsical satire is set in 2004, a world where ‘the people had absolutely lost faith in revolutions’ and therefore history ha...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Forgotten Classics: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl (published 1611)

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In 1500 London was relatively small, c . 75,000; by 1603 this had grown to 200,000 and the city was one of the largest and most dynamic i...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

john milton

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Forgotten London Classics: John Milton, Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr John Milton For the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, To the Parlamen...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

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toying with evelyn Waugh ( vile bodies ) and the poetry of the Bluestocking set (Hannah More, et al) for the next column. the bluestocking...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

tech stuff

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