tutorial, critical commentary, plot, and study resources All Passion Spent first appeared in 1931 under the imprint of the Hogarth Press, the independent publishing house run by Leonard Woolf and his … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2016
As A Man Grows Older
tutorial, critical commentary, plot and study resources As A Man Grows Older (Senilità) was first published in 1898, and like all of Italo Svevo's other books, it was published at his own expense. … [Read more...]
Italo Svevo biography
his life, writings, and cultural context Italo Svevo was the pen name of the Austro-Italian writer Aron Ettore Schmitz. He was born in 1861 in Trieste, which at that time was part of the Hapsburg … [Read more...]
King, Queen, Knave
tutorial, critical commentary, plot, and study resources King, Queen, Knave was first published in Berlin in 1928 under the title Korol, Dama, Valet. It was Vladimir Nabokov's second novel, written … [Read more...]
Manhattan Transfer
tutorial, critical commentary, plot, and study resources Manhattan Transfer was first published in 1925. It was the sixth literary work by John Dos Passos. Although he belonged to the same 'lost … [Read more...]
The Cambridge Apostles
secrecy, intellectual elitism, and cultural history The Cambridge Apostles was a quasi-secret discussion group (also known as The Cambridge Conversazione Society) that was established at Cambridge … [Read more...]
The Captain’s Death Bed
essays on literature, biography, and cultural history The Captain's Death Bed (1950) is the third volume of collected reviews and essays to be published by Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press after … [Read more...]