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London, 1984. Democracy has given up the ghost. England's ruler is randomly selected, and this year it's Auberon Quin, a clerk with an odd sense of humour. Quinn mandates that each borough of London become an independent neo-medievalist state, complete with costume and armoury. The city bears his practical joke with varying levels of patience - except Adam Wayne, an earnest young man from Notting Hill, who takes his sword in hand and the joke ...

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Sembrano lontani i giorni di Londonderry, della Domenica di Sangue, quelli in cui i pub di Londra saltavano in aria col loro carico di odio irlandese verso il tiranno britannico. E sembra addirittura quasi spenta l'eco della Rivolta di Pasqua, di Michael Collins, dell'lRA, se non ci fossero una mitologia rock o il cinema hollywoodiano a mantenerla viva e toccante nella memoria del pubblico occidentale. Le "Impressioni irlandesi" dello scrittor...

Auguste Dupin è, in assoluto, il primo detective letterario, nato dall'immaginazione dello scrittore americano Edgar Allan Poe, Sherlock Holmes, creato dalla penna dello scrittore inglese Arthur Conan Doyle, è sinonimo del giallo e dell'investigatore per antonomasia, infine, l'anomalo detective Padre Brown è la più fervida creazione di Gilbert Keith Chesterton, maestro indiscusso della crime story. Tre racconti, tre classici per altrettanti in...

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Excerpt from William CobbettIn one sense, of course, Cobbett has never been neglected. He has only been admired in the way in which he would have specially hated to be admired. He who was full of his subject has been valued only for his style. He who was so stuffed with matter has been admired for his manner, though not perhaps for his manners. He shouted to the uproarious many, and his voice in a faint whisper has reached the refined few, who...

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Excerpt from What I Saw in AmericaTravel ought to combine amusement with instruc tion, but most travellers are so much amused that they refuse to be instructed. I do not blame them for being amused it is perfectly natural to be amused at a Dutchman for being Dutch or a Chinaman for being Chinese. Where they are wrong is that they take their own amusement seriously. They base on it their serious ideas of international instruction. It was said t...

Excerpt from TennysonThere may seem to be some alxilogy'necesm'for adding to the vast volume of Dante literature. It is true that there is no lack of Essays on isolated points, general lntrfxluctions and detailed Commentaries but of simple and popular Exposition, of the Guam-did, canto by canto, there exists very little in our language. 'to present such an eslmsition, bringing out the general bearing and scope of Dante's ethical teaching, is t...

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative, " for instance-across a wide variety of avenues: he was a literary critic, historian, playwright, novelist, columnist, and poet. His witty, humorous style earned him the title of the "prince of paradox, " and his works-80 books and nearly 4, 000 essays-remain among the most...

The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is the oldest remaining major work of French literature. It exists in various different manuscript versions, which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in the 12th to 14th centuries. The oldest of these versions is the one in the Oxford manuscript, which contains a text of some 4, 004 lines (the number varies slightly in different modern editions) and is usually dated to the middle o...

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