In July 1872, 23-year-old Edmund Gosse set out for Copenhagen. His goal? To meet eminent writers, and to become one himself.
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Father and Son,” by Jonathan Raban; “24/7 Politics,” by Kathryn Cramer Brownell; “Witness,” by Jamel Brinkley; and “The Details,” by Ia...
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I think everything I mention here is worth your time. Father and Son by Edmund Gosse This is a completely wonderful book: touching,...
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GOSSE, Cyril – (Ottawa Valley Shrine Club, Masonic Lodge & Order of the Eastern Star; Retired, Canadian Armed Forces and Owner/Operator of...
76 months ago

Like the first lunar missions, the PM's 'Operation Moonshot' to combat Covid-19 is an ambitious plan that could easily fail.
51 months ago

In 1857 Charles Darwin wrote to the distinguished zoologist Philip Henry Gosse to request information about “crustacean battles”,...
265 months ago

The author of High Fidelity and About A Boy revisits six titles that he enjoyed as part of his popular "Stuff I've Been Reading" column.
75 months ago

After Henry James's death 100 years ago, his relatives were at pains to remove any hints of his sexuality from his letters and biography.
106 months ago

On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist's deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.
142 months ago

EDMUND GOSSE. A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928. By Ann Thwaite. Illustrated. 567 pp. Illinois: The University of Chicago Press. $25.
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