5. Virginia Woolf – Orlando (1928) Queer studies at its finest. 6. Hart Crane – White Buildings (1926) There are some great poems in here. I particularly like,“My Grandmother’s Love Letters” and the “Voyages” series. It was before he got weird and opaque. 7. Hart Crane...
How is time used in Orlando by Virginia Woolf? How old was Agatha Christie when she died? How old was Virginia Woolf when she wrote Jacob's Room? What is the river in Les Miserables? Where did Anne Sexton die? How did Doris Lessing die? What year did Elizabeth Gaskell write 'North an...
Read the story of William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner, by William Hague. Harcourt, Orlando, 2007 I have another couple of books about Wilberforce. He first got Great Britain to abolish the slave trade, then, just before his death, to abolish slavery in th...
A.Virginia Woolf B.Thomas Wolfe C.Sommerset Maugham D.Thomas Hardy 【答案】A 【解析】弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙是意识流文学的代表人物。 2.Thomas Hardy is a prolific writer whose works include the following except___.(天津外国语学院2008研) A.Far from the Madding Crowd B.To the Light House C.Under ...
One author who took this approach (bonus example alert!) was Virginia Woolf, who included a long list of literary “friends” in the preface ofOrlando: “Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can re...
What is The Fall by Albert Camus about? What did Mark Twain write about? What did Francois Rabelais write about? What themes did Kurt Vonnegut write about? What is William Faulkner known for? What is Orlando by Virginia Woolf about?
Britain is now a society which produces a population of which 1 in 20 are of ethnicity. 【答案】multiracial;non-European 【解析】英国是一个多种族国家,其人口的二十分之一是非欧洲血统。 True or False The Danes were successfully prevented from invading Britain for a time by King Richard the ...
Orlando. An adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s fantasy novel, in which Orlando travels through time from Queen Elizabeth I’s court to Central Asia, and undergoes some startling changes. Tilda Swinton and Lothaire Bluteau star. (Sony Classics) ...
Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction...
but also to Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf, whose “Frankenstein” and “Orlando,” respectively, are honorary members of the canon, as well as to the hardcore genre masters, such as James Blish, Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, Clifford D. Simak, Katherine MacLean, Zenna Henderson, and ...