“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”George Eliot aka Mary Ann Evans In 1857, when she was 37 years old , Mary Ann Evans started to use her pen name George Eliot when she published in Blackwood’s Magazine the three stories later included in “Scenes of Clerical Life”.In a letter… Read More The Man Who Claimed To Be George Eliot
Two Lovers Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:They leaned soft cheeks together there,Mingled the dark and sunny hair,And heard the wooing thrushes sing.O budding time!O love’s blest prime! Two wedded from the portal stept:The bells made happy carolings,The air was soft as fanning wings,White petals on the pathway slept.O pure-eyed bride!O tender pride! Two faces… Read More True Love
Sunday Afternoon in Italyby D. H. Lawrence The man and the maid go side by side With an interval of space between; And his hands are awkward and want to hide, She braves it out since she must be seen. When some one passes he drops his head Shading his face in his black felt… Read More Sunday Afternoon in Italy
Irish author Abraham Stoker was born on 8 November 1847.He wrote novels and short stories under the name Bram Stoker. The most famous of his works is the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Here are three quotes from that novel: 🦇 “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear… Read More Bram Stoker
“By the sound of the children you knew the calendar day. By their screams you knew what evening it was. You knew it was very late in the year. October. The last day of October, with white bone masks and cut pumpkins and the smell of dropped candle wax[…]He had never liked October. Ever since… Read More “He had never liked October…”🎃
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 – 29 September 1973) is an Anglo-American poet whose four hundred poems elucidate everything from love to social themes and profound meditation. (Here you can read Funeral Blues and Elegy for J.F.K.) Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for “The Age of Anxiety”, a long poem in six parts, Auden also… Read More On Writing
Mi è sempre piaciuto settembre con le sue dolci giornate splendenti. Un mese pieno d’ uva, di mele, di fichi profumati e di amici ritrovati.Regala languidi raggi di sole, dolci profumi inebrianti, rondini che fissano appuntamenti, foglie e farfalle vaganti prima di scegliere dove poggiarsi silenti.Evoca una felicità sommessa e una dolce malinconia… e anche… Read More Le giornate di settembre
(๑¯◡¯๑) Pubblicità non occulta (๑¯◡¯๑) Cari amici, sono lieta di comunicarvi che anche quest’anno un mio racconto è stato selezionato e pubblicato nell’Antologia “Racconti Lombardi 2021”. La storia, dal titolo “Viaggio di nozze”, parla della luna di miele di due contadini che partono da un paesino della Brianza diretti a Milano, a cui nemmeno si… Read More “Racconti Lombardi 2021”
Samuel Pepys (born on 23 February 1633) was a naval administrator, well known for his Diary which gives a fascinating picture of the upper-class life of Restoration London through the 1660s.He wrote his diary in shorthand, to ensure that no one could read it easily and he often further encoded the accounts of his many… Read More Pepys and Marriage
Ieri sera sulla piattaforma Zoom ha avuto luogo “La festa degli autori” – un evento gioioso legato al concorso nazionale “Racconti da Sogno” – organizzata dal curatore dell’antologia, Stefano Andrini.Nel corso della magica serata, piena di parole, musica, emozioni e speranze, sono stati letti alcuni incipit dei racconti pubblicati, tra cui il mio. La mia… Read More La festa degli autori
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