In `Terminus' a young woman hides in an empty Brighton hotel in `Thicker Than Blood' a man sits in a hot tub stalking his newly-married love on social media and in `A bird half-eaten' an amateur boxer prepares for a match. I Am Heathcliff edited by Kate Mosse ( Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte): 16 short stories by popular authors inspired by Cathy and Heathcliff’s love. Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale.
Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Forster): Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith ( Howards Endby E.M. Who can it be? Even if these crimes weren't of his choosing, can they have been by his hand? Someone is framing him, terrorizing him with cryptic notes and whisper campaigns. We feel the horror of lost time, the helplessness of knowing we are responsible for the actions of a body not entirely our own.
We watch Jekyll's high-class life at a remove, blurred by a membrane of consciousness. We tromp through the dark streets of Victorian London. We spin with dizzy confusion as the potions take effect. We join Hyde, awakened after years of dormancy, in the mind he hesitantly shares with Jekyll. As four days pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell the story of his brief, marvelous life. Jekyll's surgical cabinet, counting the hours until capture. Hyde by Daniel Levine ( The Strange Case of Dr. He embarks on a redemptive transcontinental journey that takes him from a doomed, whirlwind romance in Paris to the debauchery and violence of New Orleans. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Scott Fitzgerald): Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was in the trenches and tunnels of World War I. But all of the below novels are inspired by tales that stand the test of time and speak to different parts of the human experience. Some of these are straight retellings of the events of a classic tale in a modern time period, others show events through the eyes of another character, and some take a character outside the context of the story of the original. There are enough Austen retellings published in the last couple years alone for their own blog post, but I’ll limit this list to just one representation of each classic author. Greek tragedy, Shakespeare (whose plays themselves are retellings), and Jane Austen in particular are ripe for exploration because they deal with emotional universals that never go out of style. Nick got me thinking about all the other retellings in modern literature. Smith wrote this book years ago but had to wait until 2021 to publish it once the copyright on Gatsby expired and its contents became part of the public domain. Smith, which is the story of The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway before the events of that novel. February saw the release of the novel Nick by Michael F.
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