![]() ![]() Nor does he engender his heroes with abandon and ennui, as do his near contemporaries Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov. His genius does not dwell in philosophical dialogues, allegory, or involved interior monologue as do the realist novels of the latter half of the century. Gogol focuses his major creative occupation on the manners of his characters his creative energy is nowhere more apparent than in the “mannerizing” in which he describes and characterizes. These petty clerks, all socially dysfunctional in some major respect, nevertheless explore the great depth of the human soul and exhibit certain personality traits characteristic of the greatest heroes in literature. His heroes of the “little man” variety imprinted the most profound impression on his readers and critics alike. Frequently, the supernatural or some confounding coincidence plays a major role in his works. ![]() He captures the “real” against the background of the imagined and, in the estimation of at least one critic, the surreal. ![]() ![]() He bridges the period between Romanticism and realism in Russian literature. Nikolai Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) combines the consummate stylist with the innocent spectator, flourishes and flounces with pure human emotion, naturalism with delicate sensitivity. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The characters Morris creates really do come alive on the page as well, making for some highly effective protagonists. Transporting her readers, she also provides a clear message through her writing, offering something deeper in the process. Delivering on every single level, she crafts effective narratives that really elevate her audience, allowing them to relate to her work as well. Taking genre fiction in new and exciting directions, she really understands where she’s taking her writing, as she says what she wants to say. Hugely imaginative, she creates rich and expansive worlds, really allowing the reader to explore and get lost in them fully.Ĭreating many different series, too, she keeps the reader coming back for more, as her worlds continue to grow. She’s also written historical novels in the past too, making her a more than versatile author with something important to say. Not only that but she’s also made a name for herself as a defense analyst, authoring non-lethal weapons as a concept for the US military. American author Janet Ellen Morris is well-known for her science-fiction and fantasy novels, taking her readers on a journey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to have one last perfect week with their friends, Harriet and Wyn strike a deal: They’ll put aside their differences and share one of the cottage’s guest bedrooms. The cottage is tragically up for sale, and Harriet and Wyn, while outwardly still a perfect couple, have yet to tell their friends that they broke up five months ago. Things are a bit different this time around, though. that will have you squealing in delight and sighing dreamily in equal measure.Īlternating between past and present timelines, Happy Place explores a tightly knit group of friends who have spent each summer together at a cottage in Maine. Equal parts sweet and spicy, her latest novel, Happy Place, is a second-chance romance with a plethora of classic tropes - fake dating, there’s only one bed, etc. ![]() If Riley Sager is the king of summer thrillers, then it’s fair to say that Emily Henry, with titles like Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation already under her belt, is the uncontested queen of summer romance novels. Image: Berkley Books Happy Place by Emily Henry ![]() ![]() ![]() And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour. “I let my brother go to the devil in his quaintly own way.” In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say. But he had an approved tolerance for others sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. He was austere with himself drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse backward in sentiment lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. ![]() You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() ![]() ![]() Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly convincing and surprising to the end. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox-his partner and closest friend-find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. RTEs new big-budget crime series based on the hit novels of author Tana French will hit TV screens in the autumn and run for eight episodes. ![]() Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. French’s first novel, In the Woods, by contrast, is notoriously easy to figure out if you think the point is to determine who killed the 12-year-old girl whose corpse is found in a forest at the. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. ![]() |