Within the first few pages of Angela Carter’s decadent novella The Bloody Chamber, a feminist retelling of the Bluebeard myth, is a moment that stops me cold. It’s early in the heroine’s courtship, after she is swept up in a romance by a libertine with a dark reputation: “And ever...
Essential reading for all Sade devotees,Stories, Tales, and Fablesis an introduction for those who are not yet familiar with the work of this controversial French literary innovator. The short works in this collection range from the dramatic novella,Dorci, to comic tales such asRoom For Two. ...
Influenced by his youth and a recent visit to the Field Lane Ragged School for street children, Dickens decided to shine a light on uneven workforce wages by writing a novella. The story came to him over six weeks as he took his nighttime strolls through London, walking fifteen or twenty ...
. The team's upcoming Device 6 is an innovative and surreal game that combines elements of... well, lots of different elements! It's part game part literature, part geographical puzzle and part novella. It's all intriguing, though, and the release this October 17th couldn't come soon ...
A Simple Heart (Un coeur simple) by Gustave Flaubert - Classic French Novella - A Post a Day in May The Trap - Die Falle by Melanie Raabe Ann Patchett: The Getaway Car (2011) A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life Daisy Miller by Henry James ...
Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder ‘Five years ago, the science fiction writer Cory Doctorow published a short story whose plot might seem eerily similar to followers of the past few weeks’ news. In Radicalized, one of four novellas comprising a science fiction...
Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder ‘Five years ago, the science fiction writer Cory Doctorow published a short story whose plot might seem eerily similar to followers of the past few weeks’ news. In Radicalized, one of four novellas comprising a science fiction...
In Hanif Kureishi’s brief and caustic novellaThe Nothing, Waldo is a celebrated filmmaker who is confined to his apartment because of illness and advancing age. He has lately begun to suspect that his wife Zee, younger by twenty-two years, has begun an affair with Eddie, “more than an ...
What is the effect of free indirect narration in The Bloody Chamber? What kind of play is Measure for Measure? What is the non-linear narration in The Premature Burial? What is the theme of The Book of Judges? What is "The Satanic Verses" about? What kind of narration is used in The...
Anger is an energy, as a certain old punk sang back in the 1980s. It can even be a great motivator, such as when anger overtakes us for injustice or over crimes. Anger, however, is not a particularly good intellectual tool, nor does it help in analyzing