Mature psychological drama slightly overdone I’ve been gradually working my way through the complete works of American playwright Eugene ...

The “Need” remains largely unsatisfied John Sutherland is a British literary critic who writes books on books for both academic and gene...

The luckiest castaways ever Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe , published in 1719, was one of the first novels in the English language...

Dylan the classicist (i.e. ancient Greece and Rome) Richard F. Thomas is a professor of classics at Harvard University, “classics” in thi...

A miscellany of magazine columns Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996) is not only the biggest name in birding but also a notable figure in boo...

Spanish politician drowns in love Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a prominent figure in Spanish literature in the late 19th and early 20th cent...

Full house in Holland Dr. Adriaan , published in 1903, is the fourth and final novel in the Books of the Small Souls series by Dutch aut...