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The medieval “love story” that was really a tale of psychological abuse
A literature column to feed your curiosity. PhilosophyResilienceStorytellingNarrativeClassic Literature You haven’t been home in 10 long years. You’re exhausted, battle-scarred, and desperate to see your family. At last, a fair wind is at your back, and you stand on the deck of a bounding longship, sails set for home. For days you have strained your eyes against the horizon and now your native land appears. Closer and closer it comes. You can see the familiar flames of the harvest stubble fires.
The mysterious writer who fooled Scorsese, mastered pronouns and taught Britain how to drink vodka
Martin Scorsese - Getty/AFP The first number of the Times Literary Supplement appeared on January 17 1902, as “a comprehensive medium of literary intelligence”. It has since become a weekly fixture of the literary world, drawing contributions from a venerable roster of reviewers including Virginia Woolf, Henry James, T S Eliot, Italo Calvino, Gore Vidal and Seamus Heaney.
Papyrus by Irene Vallejo review: a mindboggling history of the earliest books
Read full article Scroll of Hunefer, Egyptian Book of the Dead In the early morning light, Egyptian artisans cut armfuls of reeds on the shores of the Nile. In a workshop the reeds are peeled, sliced and laid in a lattice. The workers use mallets to fuse them into sheets and then burnish the surfaces with pumice and shells. This is how papyrus is made and this scene is one of the many evocative vignettes that Irene Vallejo plants throughout Papyrus.
Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists
Skip to Content Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compiling hundreds of bookish lists.
The Hearing Trumpet with Joanna Moorhead on Apple Podcasts
Leonora Carrington in the Ardèche. The journalist and biographer Joanna Moorhead joins Henry in the south of France to discuss her cousin, the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington. They trace Carrington’s life story to Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche, where she lived with the artist Max Ernst, and discuss her spectacular feminist, eco-apocalypse novel The Hearing Trumpet.
Season 3 Trailer on Apple Podcasts
On the Road with Penguin Classics is the literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2 Trailer on Apple Podcasts
1 min On the Road with Penguin Classics is a literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 1 min
Why today’s classic books may not be tomorrow’s
I used to think that you could spot a literary classic by identifying certain salient characteristics: the writing would need literary quality, for example; the book would have had some historical significance; it would have an enduring reputation among scholars and general readers. But each rule threw up exceptions. Darwin’s The Origin of Species is not an obviously ‘literary’ text. E.M. Forster’s Maurice was first published six decades after it was written.
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig.
The Lonely Londoners with Susheila Nasta on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 9 min Sam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London.
On the Road with Penguin Classics on Apple Podcasts
5 episodes The podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers. The podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers.
On the Road with Penguin Classics on Apple Podcasts
21 episodes On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of a remarkable reader. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. On the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books.
My London - The London Magazine
Henry Eliot is a writer. Since 2011 he has run the map-magazine Curiocity with Matt Lloyd-Rose, available in bookshops across London and online at www.curiocity.org.uk, and they are currently creating a book of unusual city maps to be published by Penguin in 2016. www.henryeliot.co.uk. This is the 13th article in our regular series “My London”. London is a city of many metaphors, not all of them complimentary.
Books quiz: how well do you know fictional detectives?
Can you replace the missing words from the titles of these detective novels? Round two: The Master of Disguise Can you name these actors who have all played Sherlock Holmes? And finally, can you identify these famous sleuths from their descriptions? Looking for more? Test your knowledge with last week's tiger-themed quiz here
The Penguin Classics Book
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Why You Should Get Lost on Vacation
Writer Henry Eliot tells us why it’s a good idea to have no idea where you’re going. How do you get lost? It’s harder than you might think. When you venture out of your immediate neighborhood, signs and street systems funnel you towards bustling urban centers. On vacation, you are assisted by guides and guidebooks with maps in a variety of helpful scales. Meanwhile, the screen in your pocket monitors your whereabouts constantly.
How to make time to read the classics
Features If the thought of starting a book with over a thousand pages feels slightly daunting then our Penguin Classics Editor, Henry Eliot shares his creative tips to see you through to the last word. Henry Eliot 18 April 2019 The longest novel in Penguin Classics and Penguin Modern Classics is In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. This modernist masterpiece sprawls across six chunky volumes and a total of 3,616 pages.
Follow This Thread
“Captivating and informative…. Getting lost and found in Eliot’s contemplative prose and Quibe’s clever drawings is a…gratifying experience.” —Publishers Weekly “An utterly unique reading experience.” —Booklist “Delightful, ingenious, and beautifully designed.” —Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy “The illustrations encourage the reader to follow a single red line as it surges and zigzags from page to page, sometimes making us read upside down or back to front.
The Penguin Classics Book: An Evening with Henry Eliot
The Penguin Classics Book is a stunning reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years, from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.
Classics can be perceived as elitist, remote; key is to make them more approachable for modern readers
November marks the first-ever Penguin Classics Festival, which is being observed across five Indian cities. Leading bookstores in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata are making available a rare selection of classics, as part of the festival, while workshops and school sessions for readers across different age groups have been conducted with the aim of nurturing a love for these volumes.
The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was said to have been the last person to have read everything. Nowadays most of us need to be more selective. Spanning 4,000 years of literary history and encompassing 500 authors and 1,200 books, the Penguin Classics list is the ultimate reader’s authority. Sir Allen Lane’s Penguin paperbacks were the 1935 publishing notion that revolutionised our access to great literature, the ‘perfect marvels of beauty and cheapness’ that so impressed J. B. Priestley.
Curiocity, An Alternative A-Z of London by Henry Eliot
'The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate guide to the great city that I have ever seen. Bravo!' Philip Pullman Curiocity is a London book unlike any other. Its 26 chapters weave together facts, myths, stories, riddles, essays, diagrams, illustrations and itineraries to explore every aspect of life in the capital.
Follow This Thread
'Uniquely magical, each page offers new delights. Many books are described as 'journeys' but Follow This Thread really is one' Alan Connor Take an immersive journey into the labyrinthine world of mazes Labyrinths are as old as humanity, the proving grounds of heroes, the paths of pilgrims, symbols of spiritual rebirth and pleasure gardens for pure entertainment.
The Penguin Classics Book
Discover an illustrated taste of The Penguin Classics Book: www.penguinclassicsbook.co.uk The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.
The (Almost) A-Z Of Christmas Shopping In London
Henry Eliot & Matt Lloyd-Rose The (Almost) A-Z Of Christmas Shopping In London Stanfords in Covent Garden At Christmas time, London goes shopping mad. The streets are illuminated with twinkling lights, glowing shop fronts and scrolling advertisements. Shelves are heaving with shiny gift sets and plastic stocking-fillers. The poet Shelley was dazzled by London’s ‘goldsmiths, print-shops, toy-shops, mercers, hardware men [and] pastry cooks’. ‘ These are thy gods, O London!’ he cried.
Curiocity: Perhaps The Best Book About London Ever Compiled
Curiocity: Perhaps The Best Book About London Ever Compiled In well over a decade of publishing Londonist, we've read and reviewed hundreds of books about the capital. We say that not to show off, but to add some credibility to what we say next. Curiocity is the greatest book about London published in modern times. 'Book' is too weak a word for this tome. It is a sprawling publication — a codex of the capital, an illuminated manuscript for the 21st century city.
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