This sluggish camper hitched a ride on our car in Slovakian Tatras. This is my response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
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This is my response to Weekly Photo Challenge: Between…
You have probably seen this bunch before in B&W 😉 P.S. I really hate the look of the new audio player :(. Remember that elegant, discreet button I used to have above my photos? Well, it has been removed only to be replaced with this long black monstrosity. I have already complained on WordPress forum, but they are not going to…
Sometimes a woman must make an extra effort. That’s exactly what Maggie Verver did after having discovered a betrayal by her husband and her step mother. Determined to save her marriage Maggie convinces her father to leave England and to return to the States with his young bride. In the course of the novel (“The Golden Bowl” by Henry James) we see Maggie transform…
Kate Croy is a poor girl who wants to marry a poor boy. Her aunt wants her to marry a Lord. To get her way, Kate needs money. She meets a rich American orphan named Milly Theale, who has a fatal disease, and has come to Europe to live before she dies. Milly likes Kate’s poor boy, whose name is Merton Densher. Slowly,…
This Sunday I was thinking about making some opium poppy tea. 😉 Fancy a cup, anyone? When I look at a delicate crimson poppy flower I tend to forget that its capsule contains seeds used to produce the most potent analgesic and the most addictive narcotic in the world. Here are a few facts about the opium poppy: It was first grown in…
Some of you might remember a close-up photo of Estella bellow; the other two have never been shown before… To see other entries click here.
Today, I give you the sexiest in my porcelain doll collection, a doll made after the prostitute character in Emile Zola’s novels, famous Nana. If you have any black and white photos you wish me to check out and link to my Black & White Sunday, please leave me a link. You can also grab the widget: This post is related to the Cardinal’s Greek…
Jane Eyre In 1847 using the pen name of Currer Bell, Charlotte Brontë published one of the most influential novels in English literature which she entitled Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. It is an important book about growing up i.e. a “Bildungsroman”, but also a Gothic novel, a romance and a social commentary. It is a novel that many consider to be ahead of its time given Brontë’s views…
Recently, I got a nice collection of porcelain dolls made after famous female literary characters (some of you have already met my Madame Bovary) and among them there was Estella from Great Expectations, my favourite novel by Charles Dickens. Who is Estella? Estella is a little heartless bitch that was raised to break men’s hearts – in this case Pip’s. Did she succeed to…
