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Selected Essays, 1917–1932 is a collection of prose and literary criticism by T. S. Eliot. Eliot's work fundamentally changed literary thinking and Selected Essays provides both an overview and an in-depth examination of his theory. [1] It was published in 1932 by his employers, Faber & Faber, costing 12/6 (2009: £32). [2]
Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1917. January Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona.; Philosopher Hu Shih, the main advocate of replacing scholarly language with the vernacular in Chinese literature, publishes an article in the magazine New Youth (Xin Qingnian), "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", offering eight ...
The first of two novels to be written from a woman's perspective, as well as the prequel to a later novel (The Haunted Bookshop), Parnassus on Wheels was inspired by the novel The Friendly Road by David Grayson (pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker), and starts with an open letter to Grayson, taking him to task for not concerning himself (except in ...
"A Report to an Academy" (German: "Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917.In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.
Baree, Son of Kazan is a novel about a wild wolfdog pup sired by Kazan (1/4 wolf, 3/4 dog) and born of blind Greywolf (pure wolf). It explores Baree's survival after he is separated as a young pup from his parents. He eventually is cared for by Nepeese and her father Pierrot, a trapper. [1] He bonds with Nepeese, and the novel develops from there.
Reepicheep is described as a "gay and martial mouse", [1] about two feet high when standing on his hind legs, [2] with ears "nearly as long as (though broader than) a rabbit's"; [1] small Talking Beasts in Narnia are very much larger than their "dumb" counterparts. [3] He speaks with a shrill, piping voice. His fur is very dark, almost black.
Her 1929 essay A Room of One's Own contains her famous dictum "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". [ 20 ] In the 1930s W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood co-authored verse dramas, of which The Ascent of F6 (1936) is the most notable, that owed much to Bertolt Brecht .
Moonchild (a.k.a., Liber LXXXI [Book 81], or The Butterfly Net) is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians , led by Simon Iff , and a group of black magicians , over an unborn child.