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The Olympia Press’ cover of Lolita Picture source There are many informative sites dedicated to Nabokov and Lolita, but unfortunately many of the links I tried at these sites no longer exist. Hopefully the following links will stick around for a while. Vladimir Nabokov Wikipedia entry for Vladimir Nabokov The gateway to an extended interview […]
A few links with background information on William Faulkner and As I Lay Dying: William Faulkner William Faulkner on the Web (hosted by the University of Mississippi)—plenty of pages on his life and works as well as information on Oxford and Rowan Oak. Extensive details on his life at the Faulkner Archives (again from Ole […]
Homer invoking the muse Illustration by John Flaxman, engraving by William Blake Picture sourceEnter The Iliad on a search engine and you will get close to one million matches. I only went through the first few pages of results and found the following links helpful: Various versions of the text at Project Gutenberg and at […]
Gravestone and plaque for Kafka family, Prague “Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.” — Franz Kafka Back to my Modernism kick with a short work by Kafka. I don’t believe I’ve read any of his work since college, so it will […]
Picture sourceI think I’ll go with the shortened name of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. The long title is the reader’s first clue that nothing in the novel will be to the point. Here are some links on the work and the author: Laurence Sterne Wikipedia’s entry on the author The Shandean […]
Isaac Babel Picture sourceThere is a wealth of information regarding Isaac Babel available online, a tribute to the power of his stories despite having been “erased” by the Soviet regime for many years. Here is a list of some of the available resources: Babel’s Wikipedia entry Gregory Freidin, Professor, Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities […]
John Gielgud as Leontes Picture source Text of the play The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (MIT) Project Gutenberg MaximumEdge.com has a useful search feature Links about the play Wikipedia’s entry on the play “Retelling the Tale” by Gideon Lester at the American Repertory Theatre site—a performance history Notes on the […]
While I had The Periodic Table on my list to re-read soon, I was surprised when a co-worker recommended it. It was such a coincidence, I thought now was a good time to approach it again after more than 20 years. Originally published in 1975, my first encounter with it was when it was translated […]
Picture source While there are some online resources for Walter Pater, the number doesn’t seem in proportion to the influence he had on other writers. Here are a few links: Pater’s entries at Wikipedia Works available on Project Gutenberg or at manybooks.net Pater’s entry in The Victorian Web Subir Grewal has a nice page on […]
Listed below are a few online resources I found on Virginia Woolf and the two books I intend to read now. VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf’s Wikipedia entry Works available at Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg Australia has ebooks available to more of Woolfs’ books. Copyright law will vary depending on country. Virginia Woolf seminar page from […]