"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an art critic, editor, and novelist from the US who created Philo Vance, apparently one of the defining amateur detectives of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Vance series ran to twelve
This is the third collection I read from these charming little light-blue books with the golden pages, and they’re uneven at best. Once again, as such, I have mixed feelings about this collection and I’ll have to proceed scientifically to give a rating, so here
In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it’s even seasonal, in the middle of a
S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an art critic, editor, and novelist from the US who created Philo Vance, apparently one of the defining amateur detectives of the Golden Age of detective fiction. The Vance series ran to twelve
This is the third collection I read from these charming little light-blue books with the golden pages, and they’re uneven at best. Once again, as such, I have mixed feelings about this collection and I’ll have to proceed scientifically to give a rating, so here
In 1947, British-American poet W.H. Auden published The Age of Anxiety, a long poem subtitled “A Baroque Eclogue”. In a nutshell, four strangers meet in a bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan, on All Souls’ Night, so it’s even seasonal, in the middle of a
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MicSottocolle
Posted at 15:08h, 16 AprilCarissima, forse scendo domenica pomeriggio. Cmq ti farò sapere tramite sms a Tato.
La foto è esaustiva da quanto stai male. Povera; il metodo Cotton l’hai riprovato? Ciao MS
sbrect
Posted at 07:32h, 20 Apriloi, come va? si è abbassata la temperatura?
Shelidon
Posted at 16:17h, 22 AprilMah, ora sta sui 38.
Oloreheri
Posted at 18:44h, 22 AprilOh, Shelly! Sorellona mi dispiace…
Con quell’illustrazione mi vien paura °_O
Shelidon
Posted at 18:54h, 22 AprilTranquilla, sorellina, in questo blog siamo avvezzi alle rappresentazioni iperboliche. L’ultima volta che avevo fame ho postato il Divoratore di Mondi.