The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appenines, not less in fact than in the fancy …
Impia tortorum longas hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit. Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, Mors ubi dira fuit vita salusque patent. – Quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris. I was sick—sick unto death with that long …
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he do not wish to offend, or to disgust. They are with propriety handled, only when the severity and majesty of truth sanctify and sustain them. …
Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. Seneca At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisiême, No. 33, Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain. For …
The first thing that stands out to most readers of this work is that it appears to be a fragment. It is almost certainly the last piece of fiction that Edgar Allen Poe wrote. One biographer, Kenneth Silverman, believes that Poe began The Lighthouse within six months of his death in October, 1849. Based on …
A Hero of Our Time (Russian: Герой нашего времени, tr. Gerój nášego vrémeni, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈroj ˈnaʂɨvə ˈvrʲemʲɪnʲɪ]) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or antihero) Pechorin and for the beautiful …
Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called “the poet of the Caucasus”, the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin’s death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism
Culled from interviews with the world’s greatest modern writers in the pages of The Paris Review by the digest’s famous editor, a miscellany of advice, quips, and observations covers such topics as motivation, work habits, and critics.
Gathers seventy stories by Paley, Hannah, Barthelme, Cheever, Updike, Tallent, Carver, Boyle, Williams, Oates, Hemingway, and Malamud
Works by Robert Shapard: Sudden Fiction Book by Robert Shapard
