Brief Introduction/Plot summary The story takes place around the time of the First World War. Because of the sudden death of a good friend in the war, the young American Larry Darrell begins to ask himself the deep question: since there is good in the...
Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence ... Why (Some) Print Books Aren't Going Away In recent years many arguments for and against the demise of print books have been advanced. Arguably, some evidence for their demise is in: The growth of digitized books has exploded, after all, and ...
, a Colonel with British Intelligence, uses threats and promises to enlist Ashenden, a well-known writer (presumably the same Ashenden who narrated Maugham’s 1919 novel The Moon and Sixpence), as a secret agent. Dispatched to Lucerne, Ashenden, who does not use a weapon, must resort to ...
'I shan’t ask you to let me live with you, Angel, because I have no right! I shall not write to mother and sisters to say was be married,10 as I said I would do; and I shan't finish the good - hussif11 I cut out and meant to make while we were in lodgings.’ 'Shan’...
He could not see any other cats, even though he was aware of their presence close by, and there was little sound but the pad pad of soft paws and the tick tick of claws on the hard surface. Every now and then, the fog would eddy a little in a sudden breeze, affording a brief, ...
INTRODUCTION This page gives a brief introduction to some of the traditions which take place in the UK onGood Friday. On this day Christians remember the death of Jesus on a cross (his "crucifixion"), so churches in all parts of the country have special services. The main service often st...
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I will stop right here; I did say “brief” was my goal. Takeaway: it’s a Canadiana keeper. It made me heartlessly chuckle all the way through, as the murders got more and more outrageously unlikely. Hilliard shows herself to be divinely callous regarding her lavish disposal of innocent...
Now and then, in the haste of business, it had been my habit to assist in comparing some brief document myself, calling Turkey or Nippers for this purpose. One object I had in placing Bartleby so handy to me behind the screen, was to avail myself of his services on such trivial ...
‘The Different Drummer’, in Easter 1980, was my introduction to Jack Clemo. I was spiritually and literary smitten by his unusual story. He saw himself as a poet, novelist, autobiographer, short story writer and Christian witness. The latter description as important as all that preceded it...