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Public Library 20.11
Kabul: City Number One – Part 5 – Intercontinental. Part five of Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan expands on the (failed) westernisation of Afghanistan.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Website. Includes all RLS’s written works.
Michael Wood on Roland Barthes. A retrospective look at the French literary theorist/philospher/semiotician in the context of two new releases by him. From the [...]
Writing like Shakespeare
Hope, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence. From first to last, and in the face of smarting disillusions, we continue to expect good fortune, better health and better conduct; and that so confidently, that we judge needless to deserve them. I think it improbable that I shall ever write like Shakespeare, [...]
The island and the wreck – Extract from The Wrecker
All hands were filled with joy. It was betrayed in their alacrity and easy faces: Johnson smiling broadly at the wheel, Nares studying the sketch chart of the island with an eye at peace, and the hands clustered forward, eagerly talking and pointing: so manifest was our escape, so wonderful the attraction of a single [...]