It is always difficult to come second and later. When writing a biography, it makes your job as a writer that much harder and your research must be more thorough than that previously done. Still, the outcome might be a book that contains nothing new over what has already been written. It ends up being a rehash of well known and acclaimed books with no merit of its own.
The blog for book reviews to accompany my history blog which also contains book reviews that deal with history.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013
High Literature: Being Politically Incorrect
Being offensive is an easy thing to do and something most people are quite good at; doing it intelligently, though, is a literary achievement. Auberon Waugh was a master of this craft and excelled at finding a hornet’s nest where none existed before. Enter the world of political incorrectness with me.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Little Prince: 70 Years After Publication
The Little Prince has grown big over the years, really huge, since its first double publication (French and English) in New York in 1943. There are few other books that have been translated into over 200 languages. Some of these languages have otherwise only ever seen the Bible translated before. This book can therefore be said to have been and still being a huge success. But what makes it so special?
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