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Fanny Burney would not approve of some of my chapters, but it was my affection for the novels of her school, in which the heroine goes through all kinds of distresses but emerges in a sweeping triumph at the end, that made me long to try my hand at the same theme--treating it, however, in our down-t... Read More about A Game of Snakes and Ladders

"My finest, ferocious Caravaggio style"--that was his own phrase for his later manner; and that was the style I was aiming at, an interplay of light and shadow that would rivet the attention and, ultimately, draw the eye to darkness. At the beginning of Doris Langley Moore's deliriously entertaining... Read More about My Caravaggio Style

"There are some embroidered waistcoats . . . They are very old. A museum might be glad of them. . . . There are some pictures too," Mrs. Hovenden brought out with a fresh effort, "oil paintings that were in the rector's family." The kindness of Dr George Sandilands towards an elderly patient, and he... Read More about All Done by Kindness

"I don't mind being alone at all. I was often here alone in the blitz, and I was so frightened of the bombs that I quite stopped being frightened of burglars." World War II has ended, residents are flooding back to London, and the housing shortage creates strange bedfellows. Elinor MacFarren--middle... Read More about Not at Home

“The best biography of Lord Byron ever written,” according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life; and yet it is these first twenty posthumous years that yield t... Read More about The Late Lord Byron (Neversink)