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The Master at work...
I just received my copy of the Overlook edition of Wodehouse’s The Luck of the Bodkins…I’ve been trying for years to get the damn thing, but it has just now become available in the S… more →
The Feast of Nemesis
Satirical Writing
wrote 1 week ago: A Definition of Satire “The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little — o … more →
The Master at work...
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wrote 1 month ago: I just received my copy of the Overlook edition of Wodehouse’s The Luck of the Bodkins…I … more →
Fictionality and Reality in “Aeolus”
wrote 2 months ago: [Alexander Yakovlev's Aeolus] Perhaps the most striking feature of the “Aeolus” episode of James Joy … more →
And...The Book of William
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wrote 2 months ago: The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered The World by Paul Collins … more →
It's time for all good men to head to the bookstore...Part II
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wrote 2 months ago: The Complete McAuslan by George MacDonald Fraser Supremacy and Survival: How Catholics Endured the E … more →
It's time for all good men to head to the bookstore...Part I
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wrote 2 months ago: Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy The Spartacus War by Barry Strauss … more →
The Satiric World of Evelyn Waugh
wrote 2 months ago: “A satirist is a man profoundly revolted by the society in which he lives. His rage tak … more →
Meet the Baron
wrote 2 months ago: John Mannering (The Baron) makes his first appearance in this volume. Lord Fauntley cannot help show … more →
Introducing the Toff
wrote 2 months ago: Caricature on Rollison’s calling card In the series of adventure novels by John Creasey, the T … more →
The Master's Birthday
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wrote 2 months ago: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE October 15, 1881 – Feburary 14, 1975 Sir P. G. Wodehouse wa … more →
OMG!
wrote 3 months ago: Haha, i swear i totally forgot that i had wordpress! It’s pretty clean and neat, i must say! … more →
How a trope becomes a cliché
wrote 4 months ago: To spin a poor simile, writing fiction is a little bit like cooking. You take your ingredients … more →
How beautiful?
wrote 5 months ago: Scripture 1 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are dov … more →
In Vino Veritas
wrote 7 months ago: “…Puritans lack this sense of measured and temperate appetite. When sexual taboos were l … more →
Siegfried Sassoon
wrote 7 months ago: Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent, and began writing verses as a boy. While a brave young o … more →
Happy Birthday Mr. Fleming
wrote 7 months ago: 28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964 … more →
Breathtaking...
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wrote 7 months ago: A tour of the most beautiful libraries in the world… … more →
A Fine and Pleasant Misery
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wrote 7 months ago: If you are of an age, and have ever been out-of-doors, then you need to read some Patrick F. McManus … more →
A Short History of a Small Place
wrote 7 months ago: A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson Young Louis Benfield tells the story of his tiny l … more →
