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Description Roswitha, also known as Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, was a tenth century German canoness, dramatist, and poet. A remarkable woman, she has been called the first Western playwright since antiquity as well as the first known woman playwright. She was inspired by the Roman comic playwright Terence, who wrote six farces filled with disguises, misunderstandings, and pagan debauchery. Upset by Terenceβs immoral subject matter but also inspired by his well-crafted plays, Roswitha sought to
Description Kate Chopinβs most famous work nowadays is the novel The Awakening , but at the turn of the last century she was more famous for her short fiction, published in American magazines like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Youthβs Companion, and Vogue. A prolific writer, over the course of fourteen years she penned nearly a hundred stories, although many didnβt see publication until a new collection was released in 1963. The stories focus on life in 1890s Louisiana, a setting that she was
Description The Moon and Sixpence tells the story of English stockbroker Charles Strickland, who abandons his wife and child to travel to Paris to become a painter. First published in 1919 in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, the story is inspired by the life of the French artist Paul Gauguin. Itβs told in episodic form from a first-person perspective. The narrator, who came to know Strickland through his wifeβs literary parties, begins the story as Strickland leaves for Paris. Stricklandβs new
Description Trying to escape from her boring life, Hortense Daniel meets the mysterious Prince RΓ©nine (or should we say ArsΓ¨ne Lupin?) who enlists her help to solve eight mysteries, starting with one that is for her very close to home. The pairβs travels take them across northern France as they help ease the path of true love, bring thieves and murderers to justice, and eventually to recover something very dear to Hortenseβs heart. The Eight Strokes of the Clock is an ArsΓ¨ne Lupin novel by any
Description In Scarhaven Keep, the playwright Richard Copplestone is pulled into a search for a missing actor which leads him to the town of Scarhaven on the northern English sea coast. As he slowly uncovers the secrets of the residents of Scarhaven, the mystery deepens and reveals much more than a simple missing person.
Description Such Is Life is an Australian novel written by Joseph Furphy under a pseudonym of βTom Collinsβ and published in 1903. It purports to be a series of diary entries by the author, selected at approximately one-month intervals during late 1883 and early 1884. βTom Collinsβ travels rural New South Wales and Victoria, interacting and talking at length with a variety of characters including the drivers of bullock-teams, itinerant swagmen, boundary riders, and squatters (the owners of