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4 days ago · I admit I was glad that Mam wasn’t in the room, as, powered by this intensity of the new age, we pondered over the virtues of Margaret Drabble versus John Fowles, of John le Carré versus Sylvia Plath.
3 days ago · True or false: Antonia Susan Byatt, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Possession"(Booker Prize 1990)is the sister of Margaret Drabble, author of "The Millstone" (1965). Answer: True Byatt was born in 1936; Drabble in 1939.
2 days ago · This month’s #6Degrees, hosted by Kate from Books are my Favourite and Best starts with Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann.. This week is NAIDOC week, so I thought that I’d use First Nations books to riff on the meaning of the word Kairos — which Google Translate tells me means ‘weather’, or, according to the University of Louisville, more elegantly, ‘the ...
3 days ago · Chaque livre a fait l’objet de discussions chaque fois enrichissantes et passionnantes. Le cycle commencé par un livre de Margaret Drabble s’est terminé par le récent ouvrage de Jonathan Coe « Le royaume désuni ». Un grand merci a été fait à Sylvie mais aussi à Annie pour leur accueil constamment convivial et chaleureux.
3 days ago · Claim: The fiancée of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was named Margaret Hello, and this led to the customary use of the greeting “hello” in phone calls. Rating: FALSE
2 days ago · Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction , nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels , and a number of small press editions of both ...
3 days ago · t. e. Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and ...
