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Joseph Mallord William Turner ,  known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner,  was an English  Romantic landscape ...

Here   you can find an introduction to the Modern novel. Here are some interesting websites about Modernism and the Modern novel:...

"When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away." Sarah Helen Power Whitman

Harry Potter’s creator  J.K. Rowling , born on July 31, 1965, turns 53 today. Before becoming the first writer-billionaire ever...

Emily Brontë was born on 30th July 1818, the 5th child of the Reverend Patrick Brontë, a stern Evangelical curate, and his wife Maria. ...

Here you can read an interesting and comprehensive article about finding your style of studying.

Jane Austen died this day in 1817.  She left her home at Chawton for the last time on the 24th May 1817 in ord...

Mary Shelley  is a 2017  romantic   period-drama film directed by  Haifaa al-Mansour  and written by Emma Jensen. The plot follows  Mary ...

“Désirée’s Baby” is Kate Chopin’s short story, set before the American Civil War, about a baby and a racial crisis between a husband a...

"That beautiful season the Summer! Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; And the landscape Lay as if new created in al...

Extreme adjectives are words that mean extremely + adjective.

Here you can find a website which contains all sorts of short stories. Simply great! 

Today  my students of  5^C  Liceo Linguistico  took an English test on the day of their II Prova Scritta. As usual, it consisted of a t...

Here  you can read about Jack Kerouac,  a pioneer of  the Beat Generation.     His method was greatly influenced by the prolific ex...