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Profits from Low Cost Editions Trollope cites Thackeray as one of his most admired contemporaries, and Esmond as the best novel of Thackeray’s work. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wmt/pegasus/ch5f.html I just chanced upon the above link, describing a publishers scheme to make larger...

Trollope & the History of Books (2 of 2) http://his.princeton.edu/people/e58/darnton_interview.html We might ask ourselves what impact someone like Trollope had on his times. Did his books change the world view of his readers? The above passage asks how the intellectual evolved, and the...

Trollope & the History of Books (1 of 2) As I mentioned in my previous post, my reading of Trollope's autobiography and his novel "The Way We Live Now", with the stress on the financial aspects of writing novels, had made me curious about the history of the rise of the literary agent...

The First Literary Agent My reading of Trollope's autobiography has made me curious regarding the history of literary agents. The following PDF is informative. I have included some other interesting links...

To paraphrase Viktor Frankl, in his book "Man's Search for Meaning", an account of his time spent in a Nazi concentration camp: "Our ultimate freedom, which no one can take from us, is our freedom to choose the manner in which we regard our circumstances, whether they be imprisonment or...

"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" by James Hilton http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/mrchips/tg_using.html

I have resolved to read through The Way We Live Now by Trollope in order to better understand his autobiography. Since Trollope states that Thackeray is one of the most accomplished of his contemporaries, I also plan to read William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair which is described as a...

Here is a charming sentence from the first page of The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: Trollope reveals in his autobiography that a prominent clergyman threatened to forbid his daughters from reading Trollope's novels if he were ever to write one in which a heroine contemplates...

Hi, I'm Sitaram. I rarely read lower case. Every cloud has a silver lining. If you ever have to sell your keyboard on Ebay, you can say that the shift keys were hardly used. As Spock might say, "Read much and prosper." V

I am pressed for time today, so I shall not quote the source in Trollope's autobiography, but he speaks of his unfulfilled ambition to write a history of the English novel. He proposed to start with Robinson Crusoe. This roused my curiousity. I know that Tales of Gengi is sometimes cited as...

What I heard is that Ang Lee will be the director, and the title will be "Atlas Sh@gged" (but this rumor has not been confirmed).

The best laid plans of mice and men aft glow in the dark. I remember some gossip about the name Chernobyl, meaning wormwood, and being mentioned prophetically in The Book of Revelation As usual, Wikipedia is an excellent resource http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl The late Rev...

Confucius say, "One link worth 1000 words" http://www.open.ac.uk/ (and his drycleaner says "No linkee no pagee")

Swimming Against Time An excerpt: http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/calvino/calvino3.html see also http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/calvino/

This certainly isn't some kind of contest for me. I simply like to think and write about such things. It is good exercise, and it forces me to search further and think harder. Sadly, I find very few people who have the attention span or discipline or inclination to follow anything or...

I find these several paragraphs from my essay Authorship and Social Responsibility useful to excerpt and repost here, in relation to what Trollope states about novels as sermons. I do hope my words will be taken in a purely literary context and not seen as religious or political statements...

Novels as Sermons CHAPTER XII ON NOVELS AND THE ART OF WRITING THEM http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/autobiography/chapter12.html The author must please his public, if he is concerned with sales. But, he must also please the king or government, and any...

We should really begin at the beginning, and discuss Aristotle's Metaphysics, where, on his first page, he points out that LEISURE (skolee, in Greek, from which we derive SCHOOL and Scholastic) is the prerequisite to philosophy and learning. It was only when Egypt developed enough prosperity to...

Oh, by the way, I think I read somewhere that James Joyce had a patron, a benefactor who provided financial support, and that he was one of the last artists to have such a benefactor. We should include in our discussion those centuries where a patron of the arts would alleviate the writer or...

That Portuguese Poet was Fernando Pessoa, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa