Aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw raakt een man in Zuid-Frankrijk betrokken bij een vete tussen twee Siciliaanse families.

The violation of boundaries between the arts is often cited as a characteristic of modernism. Although Virginia Woolf's interest in painting is a well-established example, The Multiple Muses of Virginia Woolf offers new insight into the importance of Woolf's relationship with painters, their theories, and their works. The collection also reveals for the first time the great impact that the arts - photography, cinema, dance, and music - had on Woolf's writing. In these eight essays Gillespie has brought together some of the most exciting new scholarship in this area to show how similarities and differences among the arts helped Woolf define her own verbal experiments. Receiving formal inspiration, she nevertheless evolved ways to prevent form and, at the other end of the continuum, sentiment, from obliterating general emotion and, to some extent, social commentary. In all these other arts, Woolf found ways to challenge the largely masculine traditions of literature. She also discovered more indirect ways of creating characters in her fiction, particularly in depicting the complexities and ambiguities of ordinary people. As much as the volatility in the art world of her day excited her, however, and as much as the limitations of language sometimes frustrated her, Woolf consistently asserted the primacy and inclusive nature of her literary art. This collection of essays, which provides unique insight into the Bloomsbury Group, will be of interest to all readers of Virginia Woolf's fiction and to students of modernism as well.

Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they start an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.

Harry Potter ontdekt in zijn vijfde jaar op de Hogeschool voor Hekserij en Hocus Pocus dat de leerlingen steeds minder mogen en zelfs worden bespioneerd, maar hij wordt ook verliefd.

Stretching from the deserts of Morocco through central Africa to Malaya, the world of Islam is captured in portraits and landscapes by an acclaimed photographer

Publié clandestinement en 1903, ce journal d'une enfant vicieuse est incontestablement l'œuvre d'Hugues Rebell, l'auteur oublié mais jadis célèbre de La Nichina et des Nuits chaudes du Cap français. Voici un texte très rare. Je n'en connais pas d'autre édition que l'originale (réimprimée en 1909), sauf peut-être une édition de 1961. Le texte est en effet cette année-là condamné par la dix-septième chambre. Mais on ne sait pas (aucune description de l'ouvrage condamné !) s'il s'agit tout simplement d'exemplaires retrouvés des anciennes éditions. C'en est en tout cas la première édition depuis plus de quarante ans, et la première édition au format de poche. Les curieux et les quelques lecteurs actuels d'un auteur injustement oublié y retrouveront toutes les obsessions sexuelles - amplifiées par la clandestinité - de l'étrange personnage qu'était Hugues Rebell, de son vrai nom Georges Grassal, mort prématurément de ses débauches en 1905, à trente-cinq ans.