The cliché is of the artist starving in his garret. Be it poet or author it seems romantic but lacks somewhat in the comforts and quality of life.
Somewhat better then to live and write in perhaps the Classical Cultural centre of the world; Italy. A gloried land that sates the appetite yet something increases its ambition and its yearning for further reach. Being an English author in a new and different culture seems to work its magic when these two are placed together in the same spot with a rich vocabulary; ideas seem more fully formed and characters have another edge to their existence. For the outsider looking in, more can be revealed and shared with ourselves.
01 - Short Stories Set in Italy - The English Language in a Foreign Land - An Introduction
02 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton
03 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells
04 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells
05 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
06 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee
07 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee
08 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather
09 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards
10 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton
11 - A Tale of Negative Gravity by Frank R Stockton
12 - A Wicked Voice - Part 1 by Vernon Lee
13 - A Wicked Voice - Part 2 by Vernon Lee
14 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
15 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford
03 - Alexander the Ratcatcher by Richard Garnett
17 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford
18 - Caterpillars by E F Benson
19 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards
20 - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
21 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee
22 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee
23 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
24 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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