A Brief History of the Novel – Part Two

December 19, 2013 · by Eve Shulmister | in The Story of Books | tagged 19th century serialized novels, Dark Romanticism, Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, Harriet Beecher Stowe, House of the Seven Gables, journalists turned novelists, Madame Bovary, Nathaniel Hawthorne, novels of reform, Puritan influence on American Literature, Realism, Romanticism, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Werther Effect | 5 Comments

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini In Part One I defined the novel as a book-length narrative in prose that connects fictional events and characters who evolve. I traced the origins of the novel to 10th century Japan, and from there described […]

Literary Travel

February 8, 2013 · by Andrea Carpenter | in Field Trips | tagged " Author's Ridge, "The Red Pony, Andalusia, Concord, daffodils, Dove Cottage, English Romantic Age, Flannery O'Connor, Galiban Mountains, John Steinbeck, Lake District, Lake Grasmere, Literary Travels, Literary Vacations, Romanticism, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, St. Oswald's Church, Sunnyside, Washington Irving, William Wordsworth | 3 Comments

Almost thirty-five years ago, a vacation trip to California provided the genesis of a hobby that is now a source of infinite pleasure for me and often for my friends and family as well. Bob, my first husband, was driving as I navigated. As I studied the map, the old-fashioned kind that I still prefer […]