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Archive for the 'A Week in Literary History' CategoryA Week in Literary HistoryDecember 8th, 2002 In 1894, American humorist James Thurber (The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935), is born in Columbus, Ohio. James Thurber, b. December 8, 1894, d. 1961
Suggested Reading Essays, Stories, Sketches, & Drawngs Is Sex Necessary?, 1929 (with E.B. White). The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities, 1931. The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, 1932. My Life and Hard Times, 1933. The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935. My World—And Welcome to It!, 1942. Men, Women and Dogs, 1943. The Thurber Carnival, 1945. The Beast in Me and Other Animals, 1948. The Thurber Album, 1952. Thurber Country, 1953. Fables & Fantasies Fables for Our Time, 1940. The Thirteen Clocks, 1950. Further Fables for Our Time, 1956.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 8th, 2002 In 1868, English novelist Norman Douglas (South Wind, 1917), is born in Thüringen, Austria. Norman Douglas, b. December 8, 1868, d. 1952
Suggested Reading Novels South Wind, 1917. Travel Siren Land, 1911. Fountains in the Sand, 1912. Old Calabria, 1915. Alone, 1921. Together, 1923. Autobiography Looking Back, 1933. Late Harvest, 1946. More or less obscene poetry Some Limericks, 1928.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 7th, 2002 In 1888, novelist Joyce Cary (The Horse’s Mouth, 1944) is born in Londonderry. Joyce Cary, b. December 7, 1888, d. 1957
Suggested Reading Novels Alissa Saved, 1932. The American Visitor, 1933. The African Witch, 1936. Castle Corner, 1938. Mister Johnson, 1939. Charley is My Darling, 1940. The House of Children, 1941. Herself Surprised, 1941. To Be a Pilgrim, 1942. The Horse’s Mouth, 1944. The Moonlight, 1946. A Fearful Joy, 1949. Prisoner of Grace, 1952. Except the Lord, 1953. Not Honour More, 1955.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 7th, 2002 In 1888, Anglo-Irish novelist Joyce Cary (The Horse’s Mouth, 1944) is born in Londonderry.
The Anglo-Irish novelist was a wonderfully wise and elegant writer. His Gully Jimson-Sara Monday trilogy — Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, and The Horse’s Mouth — is a masterpiece, but all of his vivid novels reward rereading. Just work your way through in chronological order and discover one of the twentieth century’s best writers. Suggested Reading Novels Alissa Saved, 1932. The American Visitor, 1933. The African Witch, 1936. Castle Corner, 1938. Mister Johnson, 1939. Charley is My Darling, 1940. The House of Children, 1941. Herself Surprised, 1941. To Be a Pilgrim, 1942. The Horse’s Mouth, 1944. The Moonlight, 1946. A Fearful Joy, 1949. Prisoner of Grace, 1952. Except the Lord, 1953. Not Honour More, 1955.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 3rd, 2002 In 1857, novelist Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim, 1900) is born Josef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski in Berdichev, Polish Ukraine.
Conrad, born in Poland, has often been praised for his mastery of his second language, but in fact he wrote in a strange un-Engish. After a couple of notable books he published his so-called masterpiece, Lord Jim, in 1900, then needed help on three subsequent novels from Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford Madox Ford), who later said, “Conrad spent a day finding the mot juste and then killed it.” We confess to a weakness for The Nigger of the Narcissus, but then we’re soft on sea stories, which is probably why we tolerate Lord Jim insofar as we do. Suggested Reading Novels The Nigger of the Narcissus, 1897. Lord Jim, 1900. Nostromo, 1904. The Secret Agent, 1907. Short stories & tales Typhoon, 1902. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories, 1902. The Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad, 1933.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryNovember 30th, 2002 In 1667, Irish satirist Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels, 1726) is born in Dublin. American novelist Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884) is born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Mo., 1835. Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, b. November 30, 1667 and 1835, d. 1745 and 1910
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Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryNovember 28th, 2002 In 1757, English artist and poet William Blake (Songs of Innocence, 1789) is born in London. William Blake, b. November 28, 1757, d. 1827
Suggested Reading Illuminated books Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1789. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-93. Continental Prophecies, 1793-95. Jerusalem, 1804-20.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryNovember 24th, 2002 In 1713, Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 1760-67) is born in Clonmel, County Tipperary.
For pure wickedness, Sterne has long been considered more salacious, if not more savage, than Swift, but this is a bum rap. The priggish Samuel Johnson’s disapproved of his Yorkshire contemporary shouldn’t blind us to Sterne’s manifest humanity. The character of Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy — along with Tolstoy’s Andre, Wilkie Collins’ Gabriel Betteredge, and G.B. Edwards’ Ebenezer LePage — is one of the most memorable and loveable in all of literature. And Tristram Shandy made possible, for better or worse, a truly modern literary perspective, in which the narrative and narrator are always subject to authorial scrutiny and, above all, skepticism. Suggested Reading Novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., 1759-67. Travel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Sermons The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, 1760-1769.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryNovember 22nd, 2002 English novelist George Eliot (Middlemarch, 1871-72) is born Mary Ann Evans in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, 1819.
A controversial woman in her time, Mary Ann Evans lived openly with a married man, George Lewes (she later married him), and married a second man, twenty years younger than her, when Lewes died. Although women at the time published under their own names, she chose a masculine name because she didn't want to be thought of as a writer of romances. Her novels are masterpieces of naturalistic Victorian fiction, and Middlemarch, in particular, is not be missed. Suggested Reading Novels Adam Bede, 1859. The Mill on the Floss, 1860. Silas Marner, 1861. Romola, 1863. Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866. Middlemarch, 1871-2. Daniel Deronda, 1876.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryNovember 21st, 2002 French writer François Marie Arouet, who will publish under the name Voltaire (Candide, 1759), is born in Paris in 1694. Voltaire, b. November 21, 1694, d. 1778
Suggested Reading Major works Letters on the English, 1733. Zadig, 1747. Micromégas, 1752. Candide, 1759. Dictionnaire philosophique, 1764. La Princesse de Babylone, 1768.
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