Virginia Woolf’s immensely influential long essay, A Room of One’s Own, originated from a pair of lectures she presented at two women-only colleges at Cambridge University in 1928. One of Woolf’s most brilliant and searing texts, it continues to guide and inspire women around the world.
"My 22-year-old face was far from craggy, but I did have long hair and a jacket just like McGuane’s. I would be a novelist." Robert Wilson's essay about the path to writing his first novel, was published yesterday in The American Scholar. Read it here: https://theamericanscholar.org/my-first-novel/
Murder, secrets, and suspense around every corner— in classic Christie fashion, The Seven Dials Mystery keeps you guessing until the very last page. Can you unravel the truth before the final twist?
On September 24, 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Today he is remembered above all for The Great Gatsby, a novel that continues to stand as one of the most incisive explorations of American identity and ambition.
100 years ago, Ernest Hemingway and a group of friends traveled from Paris to the Basque Country for the Festival of San Fermín. The week's experiences formed the basis of his legendary roman à clef, The Sun Also Rises, which he wrote and published shortly after his trip that summer in 1925.
Celebrating the brilliant Dorothy L. Sayers, born on this day in 1893 in Oxford, England.
The novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and creator of the indelible Lord Peter Wimsey gave us mysteries rich with wit and intellect. Sayers championed clear thinking, fierce faith, and the life of the mind.
Obsessed with the covers for our Warbler Classics editions of four Willa Cather Novels: O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Song of the Lark, and The Professor's House.
On this day in 1843, Henry James was born in New York City.
Considered among the greatest authors in world literature, James's titles with Warbler include: gothic horror story The Turn of the Screw and novel Washington Square.
