Hints and tips:
...But a word to the wise: think carefully about your choice of classic, and how much time you actually have on your hands....
...Turner suggests that Alison of Bath is not just the first realist woman in English literature but its first fully realised literary character: fallible, wise and humane....
...Matthew Briers has quit as chief financial officer of London-based fintech Wise to “focus on making a full recovery” after being run over by a bus while cycling last year....
...Poignant, thoughtful and emotionally wise....
...That may be wise....
...Then she sinks like water down a drain. ★★★☆☆ To January 5; joyce.org...
...Among others, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Keats, Shakespeare, Dickens and the un-English Rainer Maria Rilke, walk and talk in her pages — while James Joyce is present through Smith’s heady addiction...
...Recommended reading Who knew James Joyce was a political dog whistle for elites?...
...Wise words from a senior estate agent on the only properties he can shift in South Kensington....
...The book has something wise or funny on almost every page, and one only wishes that the publishers had thrown the cat a goldfish and included an index....
...In decades past, it has failed to give prizes to towering literary figures including Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce....
...Only Demeo and Sovich strike a hackneyed note with wise-guy bravado that sounds like warmed-over Scorsese....
...Did he have any wise words to help us? “I don’t. I wish I did.” He pauses for a moment. “What I see is the destructiveness of the forced politics of identity....
...Imagine James Joyce’s “The Dead” transposed to a Bucharest flat. Generations meet to mourn a deceased paterfamilias and to re-pick old domestic or dynastic wounds....
...But the government would be wise to brace itself for putting a bill through parliament. It might still win this appeal but it would be prudent not to assume so....
...In her last novel, Wise Children (1991), Angela Carter described London as “two cities separated by a river”, and London novels have always been as much about what divides Londoners as what unites them....
...Perhaps the style, all “surging urgings” and “swooping swallows of sensual scents”, is meant to invoke James Joyce or Ted Hughes....
...To February 22; joyce.org...
...The Caffé San Marco, with its ornate Vienna-style interior — a favourite of James Joyce during his time in Trieste in the early 20th century — retains its Mitteleuropa nostalgia with decorations such as...
...As long as we live in a culture that holds these things dear, it will be wise to buy books.”...
...But James Joyce? He earns a nod via an excursion Frayling makes into the influence of music hall traditions on early 20th-century authors....
...www.joyce.org...
...This unlikely pilgrimage serves as the plot of Joyce’s gentle but excellent debut novel....
...Alan Joyce, Qantas chief executive, has embarked on a five-year plan to restructure the airline, focusing on its lossmaking international business....
...“Someone has said to me that children who are adopted often feel the need to prove to their parents that their parents made a wise decision in taking them on....
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