By Viola van de Sandt Today, it is exactly ninety years ago that E.M. Forster published his final novel, A Passage to India, on 4 June 1924. In honour of the occasion, Interesting Literature presents five fascinating facts about the author and the book that would ensure Forster’s eminence for […]
Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June in 1840. (Seventeen years later to the day, composer Edward Elgar would be born.) Let’s raise a glass of something (cider?) to one of the great poets and novelists of English literature. 1. Much of the common perception of Thomas Hardy is incorrect, […]
You can quote us on this: G. K. Chesterton – or Gilbert Keith Chesterton, to give him his full name – was born on this day in 1874. What better reason could one want for proffering ten of his finest one-liners? We hope you enjoy these marvellous Chestertonian quotes. There […]
Regular readers of this blog may know that we at Interesting Literature are rather fond of the following story about the genesis of To Kill a Mockingbird. The story goes that Harper Lee’s friends gave her a year’s wages for Christmas, on condition that she give up work and write. By any standard […]
Here are ten of our favourite quotes about books, from those who should know them pretty well – writers themselves. The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde Why can’t people just sit and read books and be […]