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Month: September 2024
Sherlock Holmes in 1924: A Centenary
Sherlock Holmes fiction probably conjures up images of fog bound London streets, hansom cabs and cosy scenes in 221b Baker Street with its Victorian décor. However, this year marks the centenary of the publication of three particular Sherlock Holmes short stories and it may seem strange to think of Sherlock Holmes in the 1920s. ‘The… Read More
David Stuart Davies (1946-2024)
Regular readers of our blog will be sad to hear that our old friend David Stuart Davies passed away in August. The association with Wordsworth of David and his wife Kathryn dates back to the late 1990s, the days of the £1 classic paperback, when Kathryn contributed an introduction to our edition of Agnes Grey, and David… Read More
Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’
‘The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations’ (Count Leo Tolstoy) In this final blog on a trio of great Russian novels, Sally Minogue suggests reasons for thinking that Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is the greatest of the three. The… Read More