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In the six lectures of The Great Gatsby at 100, you will join Sheila Liming of Champlain College to revisit the context and culture of the Roaring ‘20s, which inspired the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his disastrous pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. As you’ll discover, while Gatsby is framed as a love story, it’s also a story of the American experience, revealing the unspoken rules of wealth and class and the false promises of self-made success in a world of Old Money privilege.

These short, vivid biographies offer quick insights, big ideas, and timeless inspiration. Explore the stories behind the storytellers: from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Hemingway, Emily Dickinson to Franz Kafka, Goethe to Jack Kerouac, William Shakespeare to Arthur Miller, Charles Dickens to Toni Morrison. Short and sharp audio biographies for lovers of words and worlds.

ربما كان الحديث عن أمين الريحاني هو الأصعب في تناول ما أنتجه النهضيون التنويريون لأن محيطه واسع ومتلاطم، فتحار من أين تتناوله، وهو الشاعر والروائي والقاصّ...

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this...

¿Qué le dijo Hemingway al soldado italiano, a quien salvó la vida en plena guerra mundial cargándolo sobre su espalda, antes de entregarlo a los aliados? ¿Qué pasaba por la mente de Juan Rulfo cuando, siendo agente comercial, viajaba por las interminables carreteras de México? Cuando la Academia sueca se negó a darle el Nobel a Jorge Luis Borges, ¿Cuál fue la reacción de un admirador del escritor? ¿Cómo fueron los últimos momentos de Horacio Quiroga o de Stefan Zweig?

The author of Midnight's Children discusses Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights with A. M. Homes. Rushdie's novel is a masterpiece about the age-old conflicts that remain in today's world, and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.