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The Essential John Milton by John Milton
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
John Milton (1608-1674) is best known for his blank-verse epics but was a much more prolific writer, producing shorter poems and nonfiction prose.
Classics
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
SONS AND LOVERS, published in 1913, is considered D.H.Lawrence's first great novel.
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Mon, Mar 02, 2009
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was born in Germany and later became a citizen of Switzerland. As a Western man profoundly affected by the mysticism of Eastern thought, he wrote many novels, stories, and essays that bear a vital spiritual force that has captured the imagination and loyalty of many generations of readers. In 1946, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for The Glass Bead Game.