Tag: classic authors
May the fourth be with you! Alright, that may not be the most original statement to say on this particular date. (And if you’re reading this on a different …
An expert in antique books and manuscripts was left trembling after one find during Antique Roadshow. The item was a 17th-century notebook titled Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragedies. The author …
Jane Austen is considered to be one of the greatest authors of all time. While her works often revolve around love, some recently discovered documents suggest she had quite …
Amongst a sea of classic authors that we are all told that we must read, E. M. Forster is one that too often seems to be forgotten, in favor …
Carson McCullers would have turned 100 this year. But McCullers, one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, was never destined to see old age. For much of her short life …
Z: The Beginning of Everything, a mini-series about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, is currently gracing our screens, and there are two major film projects about the couple in the …
YouTube Channel: Text und Bühne Actor, director, and writer Orson Welles speaks about his unique relationship with classic writer Ernest Hemingway in a 1974 interview with Michael Parkinson. Featured …
YouTube Channel: mishima1970 Classic author and poet Sylvia Plath reads her poem, Ariel, from The Collected Poems which was released two years following her death in February 1963. Featured …
YouTube Channel: BIO From the Description: Watch a short video biography about Ernest Hemingway’s life and work, including his service as an ambulance driver during WWI, his novels A …
YouTube Channel: Noodlehorn Among the many masters of prose of our literary history, Anne Sexton remains one of the most mysterious and striking poets nearly 42 years following her death. …
YouTube Channel: nagusd Here’s a rare interview with The Bell Jar author Sylvia Plath that was recorded in 1962. Have you read any of Plath’s collections of poetry? Featured image …
In December, a facsimile of an early Charlotte Brontë manuscript of Jane Eyre will be published by Éditions des Saints Pères. The manuscript, written in Charlotte Brontë’s own flowing …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Nonetheless, while her heroines may have found true …
The movie adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s The Girl On The Train has been one of the most anticipated films of this year- in part because everyone loves a good psychological …
Most, if not all, writers must surely hope that their words will live on after they have shuffled off this mortal coil. To add value to their poetry and …
The mind behind David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Little Dorrit, and a few dozen more, Charles Dickens was a fascinating man as well as a fascinating author. One might …
If Whitman were alive today, how would he contradict himself? Perhaps he would pause in a tea shop to pound out a text on his flip phone. This video, …
YouTube Channel: Atthis83 From the Description: This is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice. It is part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29th, 1937. The talk …
YouTube Channel: AbeBooks.com From the Description: “If you wish to live long in the memory of men, you should not write for them at all. You should write what their …
The Great Gatsby is one of my all-time favorite novels. Not because it has fallen into the wings of being a true classic, not due to the fantastic 2013 …
