Brideshead Revisited



1944 when the book was finished. I wrote with a zest that was quite strange to me and also with impatience to get back to the war. It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster - the period of soya beans and Basic English - and in consequence the, book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language, which now with a full stomach I find distasteful.… Continue

Decline and Fall



'Sent down for indecent behaviour, eh?' said Mr Levy, of Church and Gargoyle, scholastic agents. 'Well, I don't think we'll say anything about that. In fact, officially, mind, you haven't told me. We call that sort of thing "Education discontinued for personal reasons", you understand.' He picked up the telephone. replica handbags'Mr Samson, have we any "education discontinued" posts, male replica handbags, on hand?...… Continue

20th century novels



Aldous Huxley's futuristic novel Brave New World 1932, anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurism. Daphne Du Maurier wrote Rebecca, a mystery novel, in 1938. The most notable work of W. Somerset Maugham is Of Human Bondage, that is strongly autobiographical and is generally agreed to be his masterpiece.… Continue

Anne Bront? Early life



In the summer of 1824, Patrick sent his eldest daughters Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily to Crofton Hall in Crofton, West Yorkshire, and later to the Clergy Daughter's School, Cowan Bridge, Lancashire. When the two eldest siblings died of consumption in 1825, Maria on 6 May and Elizabeth on 15 June, Charlotte and Emily were immediately brought home.[20] The unexpected deaths of Anne's two eldest sisters distressed the bereaved family enough that Patrick… Continue

about Victorian novel



Wilkie Collins epistolary novel The Moonstone 1868, is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The Woman in White is regarded as one of the finest sensation novels. The novels of George Eliot, such as Middlemarch, were a milestone of literary realism, and are frequently held in the highest regard for their combination of high Victorian literary detail combined with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow confines… Continue