…of the man himself. The direct URL is: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n16/katherine-rundell/ferrets-can-be-gods The LRB website has a paywall but you can access one article for free or register free for 24 hours of…
…quarters, Clovis screamed a frantic though strictly non-committal summons: “Poor Lady Bastable! In the morning-room! Oh, quick!” The next moment the butler, cook, page-boy, two or three maids, and a…
If you do an online search for images of H.H. Munro, then you are likely to find the following photo: Taken from https://assets.americanliterature.com/al/images/author/h-h-munro.png It ought to be instantly familiar to…
…was fond of her in his own way, and she, in her quite different way, was more than a little fond of him; but they trafficked in ideas that had…
…Amazon too: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D2CIVVI/ A sample chapter can be read by anyone here: https://ciscocosta.medium.com/o-retorno-ao-lar-um-cap%C3%ADtulo-de-saki-5e26a97d3d5c Finally, a sample of the aforementioned collection, the translation of ‘The Background’, was put online at: https://medium.com/cabine-literaria/a-tela-um-conto-de-saki-ce2967a8e74b…
…sport!” they shouted back; “we’d jolly well drink y’r health, only we’ve nothing to drink it in.” “Come and wassail inside,” said Bertie hospitably; “I’m all alone, and there’s heaps…
…one has just lived, one reincarnates in some lower organism. And I haven’t been very good, when one comes to think of it. I’ve been petty and mean and vindictive…
…with, when it would have served the double purpose of supporting the branches and frightening away the birds—for it is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has…
A quick link to an article on the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, an event alluded to at the start of ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh’. http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/how-the-mona-lisa-went-from-being-barely-known-to-suddenly-the-most-famous-painting-in-the-world-1911.html…
…inspiration from them? You can read more about Gandy here: http://hughpearman.com/john-soanes-magician-the-tragic-genius-of-joseph-gandy/ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/apr/01/architecture The Athenauem Club is is a private members’ club on Pall Mall in London. Membership is reserved to…