Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901), was a novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie...
Després de Nadal, el Club de la Cistella comença el segon trimestre del segon curs d’ESO i l’Enric Mitjà (E. M.), un dels membres de la colla, acaba de ser diagnosticat...
The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the...
It's sad, but true to say that today Edward Morgan Forster's works are known more from their film and television adaptations rather than from their original novels. Yet, these...
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual...
The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth...
Der Vortrag dreht sich um das Jahr 1909, also das Entstehungsjahr von The Machine Stops. Denn neben Forster haben auch andere Autoren 1909 zugeschlagen: zum Beispiel H.G. Wells,...
Silver footed, fair haired Thetis, Ares the God of War, Nike the Goddess of Victory, The Furies and The Muses, Zeus the presiding deity of the Universe and the magical, mysterious...
The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While staying in Florence, Lucy meets the...
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger...