➡️ Part 1 When J.M. Stoddart finally received Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” and began reading it, he was immediately impressed by the literary merits of the work . But there were some aspects that left him much less enthusiastic, indeed, decidedly perplexed. He told the publisher, George Lippincott, that the story… Read More The Picture of Dorian Gray: a novella/2
Nathalia Crane was born on 11 August 1913, in Brooklyn, New York. She was a poet and novelist who became famous as a child prodigy after the publication of her first book of poetry “The Janitor’s Boy and Other Poems” when she was only 10 years old. The collection was based on romance and influenced… Read More A Child Prodigy: Nathalia Crane
Shel Silverstein wrote a sequel to “A Boy Named Sue” (see here) called “The Father of a Boy Named Sue”. It is an irreverent and morally questionable folk song, brutally realistic in portraying the nastiness in the world around us. The story is told from the father’s point of view: he admits that he lied… Read More The Father of a Boy Named Sue 🎶
On 10 May 1999 American writer, poet, cartoonist, songwriter and playwright Shel Silverstein died of a heart attack aged 57. Among his many songs he wrote “A Boy Named Sue” for which he won a Grammy in 1970. The song was made popular by Johnny Cash, who recorded it live in concert in 1969 at… Read More A Boy Named Sue 🎶
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