The little white attic

This year, to celebrate the bicentenary of Mansfield Park , Sarah Emsley has been organising a Mansfield Park party on her own site. The lin...

Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, the "hero" of the story, at the beginning makes me think of Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park . Cha...

From January 2014 to December 2014 Bold: films I consider good. 1/ The Bourne identity (2002)- twice again 2/ The Bourne supremacy (200...

I've finished reading another book by Gogol. This one is a collection of short stories, translated by Mary Struve, consisting of "O...

My essay in the course Eng2301 at UiO.  “Compare and contrast two of Sidney’s sonnets, paying attention to the poetic imagery and themes,...

Nordstrand, Oslo.  https://plus.google.com/photos/104156964467977244850/albums/6091530939285366705?authkey=COLew4T82OWBmQE By me. 

March in Oslo, 7/12/2014.  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.583151485151740.1073741846.100003706819459&type=1&l=9caf157d26...

I've just read Nabokov's lecture on Dead Souls in Lectures on Russian Literature .  It will not be summarised, and should be read ...

Tom (Amateur Reader) at Wuthering Expectations describes  Dead Souls as overpopulated . That's very true. A few days ago I wrote that ...