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...Picking up in England, where James’s novel ends, Banville tells the story of his heroine Isabel’s journey to Gilbert Osmond in Tuscany, via London and Paris, where she encounters many of the original novel...
...Sykes/Alamy; Alan Williams; Jeff Gilbert/Alamy; Pawel Libera/Getty Images; Simon Groves; Peter Phipp/Alamy...
...Homer Simpson, American everyman and perhaps the greatest comic creation of the modern age, works in a nuclear power plant....
...Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic provided a brash, virtuosic frame. Still, the lines that separate the grand from the grandiose, the portentous from the pretentious, were oddly and sadly blurred....
...There’s a magical room of miniatures, another of blissful folk paintings, still others brimming with Winslow Homers and trompe-l’oeil spectacles by William Harnett and John F Peto....
...A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years By Diarmaid MacCulloch Allen Lane, £35 The provocative title reflects MacCulloch’s claim that Christianity began with Homer and King David – and...
...As Gilbert Murray pointed out, in the introduction to his translation of Aristotle’s Poetics, the Greeks used the term “mythos” in a perplexingly double sense....
...and Winslow Homer....
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