Octavia Butler’s Birthday
Octavia Butler (born Octavia Estelle Butler) was born on June 22, 1947 in Pasadena, California (USA) in a poor family. Her father died when she was still a child so…
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June 18, 2020
Walt Whitman’s Birthday
Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, Long Island (New York). He was the second son of a quite humble family, with little formal education. His…
May 30, 2020
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Birthday
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22nd, 1859 in Edinburgh (Scotland) in an Irish-Roman Catholic family. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was an artist although he could not…
May 22, 2020
Daphne du Maurier’s Birthday
Daphne Du Maurier was born in London (England) on May 13th, 1907 in a wealthy family. Her father was the actor and theatre manager Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson and…
May 13, 2020
Benito Pérez Galdós’ Birthday
Benito Pérez Galdós was born on May 10th, 1843 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in a middle-class family. His father, Sebastián Pérez, was a soldier so he received a…
May 11, 2020
Robert Browning’s Birthday
Robert Browning is the major English poet of the Victorian age. Critics praise him for his use of the dramatic monologue and psychological portrait. He was born on May 7th,…
May 7, 2020
Alexander Pope’s Birthday
Alexander Pope is the main author of the first part of the Augustan period. He was one of the biggest influences on English literature at his time and nowadays. He…
May 4, 2020
Publication of “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen
May, 9th (1814) was the publication date of Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park”. That day, the release of the novel was advertised in the newspaper “The Star”. As Deborah Barnum explains…
April 29, 2020
“The Hunting Party” by Lucy Foley – BOOK REVIEW
Year of publication: 2019 Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-00-829711-4 Strong Point: The way the author tells the story in "The Hunting Party" with continuous flashbacks to the past of the characters and to the last three…
April 22, 2020
FAHRENHEIT 451 BOOK REVIEW
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family". But when he meets an eccentric young neighbour, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
May 5, 2019