Pagosa Daily Post has a humorous holiday gift guide which includes a pair of ceramic bookends looking like classic novels:
As you can see, it appears to be a collection of seven classic books — Moby Dick, Jane Eyre, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Little Women, Frankenstein, A Tale of Two Cities, and Pride and Prejudice — all of which were extremely popular when they first came out, but have unfortunately become pretty much unreadable, thanks to the drastic decline in the average American’s vocabulary.
But place this gift on a bookshelf, and you will instantly appear to be unusually intelligent and interesting. (Or, at least, intelligent.) (Louis Cannon)
Cherwell discusses 'Female ambition in
The Queen’s Gambit'.
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the series features Beth Harmon, an orphaned prodigy determined to become the world’s leading chess champion. But before she can succeed, she must battle many personal demons. The first episode sees Beth, a strange and solitary child, climb down the musty basement stairs of the Methuen Home for Girls. There she finds its caretaker, playing chess alone at a dark little table. My first reaction: something terrible would happen between them. Fictional orphans seem doomed to receive unpleasantry (think of Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, or anything by Lemony Snicket). Maybe it was only the effect of the sinister institutional setting, but I wholly expected some twisted power play to unfold. Yet to its credit, the series doesn’t gratify any such macabre notions. While I would indeed describe what happens next as a ‘power play’, the only ‘twist’ is that Beth Harmon is in charge of the game’s every move. (Leona Crawford)
La scoperta della Terra desolata di T.S. Eliot, da ragazzo (insieme ai Quattro quartetti) è stato un vero detonatore. Da lì Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, precursori come Emily Brontë, poeti come Trakl e Celan. (Davide Brullo) (Translation)
SBS (Australia) recommends Neil Cross’s new show
The Sister.
Eerily stylish, The Sister is a fitting follow-up that turns the screw with aching suspense, as Nina Toussaint-White’s detective begins to spy a chink in the armour of old alibis. One-part procedural, there’s also a cold wind rustling the veil between life and death, like Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca or Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. (Stephen A. Russell)
7. Moore – think Wuthering Heights
We are all familiar with Heathcliff and the ‘moors’, which describes wide-open land or bog. That’s exactly where this name comes from because it was used to describe someone who lived in those areas. (Jade Poleon)
And finally today on TCM (20.00h ET), Jane Eyre 1944 will be broadcast, part of a Bernard Herrmann film series.
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