Disappointing Reader Expectations and Pushkin’s ‘The Queen of Spades’
Most books about successful novel writing emphasize that above everything, the writer who wants to sell well and avoid bad reviews must at all costs
Most books about successful novel writing emphasize that above everything, the writer who wants to sell well and avoid bad reviews must at all costs
The literary critic Graham Handley writes of the difficulty of creating a character who is very good: ‘It is a strange but true fact that
I first read HG Well’s ‘The Time Machine’ in my early twenties, more years ago than I care to admit. My impression of it then
Germinal is Émile Zola’s masterpiece, and I am fairly typical in thinking (and I have only read it in translation) that it contains his most
I have recently been re-reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Mary Barton’. I thought I had long since written a review of it; it seems not. This is,
In my last post, I wrote about the influence of Mary Renault, whose fictional interpretation of Ancient Greece has become so famous. I commented
There are some writers of historical fiction on particular historical epochs who acquire such widespread fame that they are often described as having ‘Made that
I have been getting cold feet (very appropriate given the recent icy weather) about my short novel based round the 1819 Peterloo Massacre . Of
‘Sylvia’s Lovers’ by Elizabeth Gaskell in one sentence: ‘Philip Hepburn worships Sylvia Robson, and finds dishonour; Sylvia Robson worships Charley Kinraid, and finds disillusionment; Charley Kinraid worships himself, and finds a wife who agrees with him and a career in the Royal Navy.’
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