The little white attic

I’m currently taking a break from the hellsite still known as Twitter, though I’m aware people have been arguing about this list . I don’t c...

I almost quit on Dombey and Son , around page 425 or so. It is a transitional novel (according to my friend Himadri, the Dickens expert): Fl...

A list of the 10 literary works I think about, or revisit, most often:  The Iliad  The Odyssey  King Lear  Othello  Shakespeare’s Sonnets  D...

1/ Ah, the beginning of it all! Menelaus and Agamemnon are on the way to Troy to retrieve Helen and sack Troy, but their ships are stuck, du...

1/ It would have been quite interesting, I suppose, to read Orestes immediately after the Oresteia and the two Electra plays—I just couldn’...

Detail from the title page of Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G.S . London, 1626. 1/ It’s a good idea to read Ovid after having read the ...

1/ Dickens’s novels are always full of interesting images and unusual similes.  “Spitfire seemed to be in the main a good-natured little bod...

I have seen 7 screen adaptations of Anna Karenina . That probably tells you I’m a bit mad. But as a lover of literature and cinema, I’m also...

I don’t know what possessed me, but yesterday I saw two different adaptations of Wuthering Heights : Arashi ga oka (1988) from Japan, and t...

Anyone who loves Wuthering Heights has long recognised the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of adapting it (properly) for the screen. ...