The little white attic

1/ The 10 best films I watched this year are: Brief Encounter (1945): Voted to be the most romantic film of all time, this David Lean film ...

Match Point and (1 of the 2 plots of) Crimes and Misdemeanors have a similar story: a man has an affair and, when threatened with exposure,...

The best fiction books I've read this year are: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Despair by Vladimir Nabokov Strange Case of Dr Jeky...

Lately I've been watching Woody Allen films, and now just watched Love and Death . Go see it if you haven't. Who wouldn't love t...

Whilst many people are reading Emma together (2015 marks the 200th anniversary of Emma ; and 5 days ago was Jane Austen's 240th birthd...

Is it wrong to find Manhattan a beautiful film? Many people think so, and it's understandable that they are uneasy with the film, wi...

Starting with Winslow Homer's painting The New Novel , in chapter 16 Michael Gorra talks about Victorians' views on the influence o...

Speaking of the ellipses in the narrative of The Portrait of a Lady , Michael Gorra believes that Henry James simply avoids what he can'...

In Portrait of a Novel , Michael Gorra examines the sources of inspiration for Isabel Archer.  1 is George Eliot, of course, specifically h...

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