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Ambrose Bierce – horror cu H mare
Pentru iubitorii de cărți horror clasice, “Valea bântuită” din 1893 a lui Ambrose Bierce stabilește un etalon al literaturii gotice.
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Creature and Creation in ‘Frankenstein’ and 19th Century Horror
‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. True terror can only lie in classic 19th…
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Mircea Cărtărescu, Cenaclul de Luni, și alte legende
“Cărtărescu este cel mai mare scriitor român contemporan” (Nicolae Manolescu)
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Lolly Willowes – Autumn, Witchcraft, Satan
‘Lolly Willowes’, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Penguin Classics, 2020. First published by Chatto & Windus 1926.
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5 Ways to Define Your Reading Pathway
Or, how to choose your next book in a coherent way, which gives you your own story to tell.
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4 Killer First Sentences in 20th Century Literature
Katherine Mansfield, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson and Mavis Gallant write some of the most enticing and exciting (read killer)…
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Dark Christmas Stories for the Dark Season
This is the second year in establishing a new Christmas tradition – reading ghost stories in the long nights of…
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2024 – Das Jahr der Bücher, die sich angesammelt haben
Für das Jahr 2024 habe ich vor, mich durch die ungelesenen Bücher der vergangenen Jahre zu arbeiten.
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Unconventional, Free, Creative Reading
‘How to Start Writing (and when to stop)’, Wislawa Szymborska, New Directions, 2021, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh