When Carson McCullers was a teenager, she came to New York City to study piano at Juilliard. She never matriculated; she lost the purse with her tuition money in it. Such small, unredressed tragedies
Awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, Midnight\'s Children is Salman Rushdie\'s most highly regarded work of fiction, though not his best known. That distinction belongs to The Satanic Verses, the 1988 no
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce\'s Dubliners and