Aaron, Moses
Aaron, Ron
Adesida, Dotun
Al-Assady, Abdul-Settar
Banerjee, Arunabh
Baraka, Ahmed
Beal, Mark
Binx, Eugene
Bisht, Pushkar
Brown, Dr. Glen
Buck, Gail
Chambers, Eric
Chambers, Lesley
Chappel, T. A.
Chi, Anson
Coakley, Mark
Coelho, Paulo
Culling, Peter
Diwivedi, Tripuresh Dhar
Dufort, Mike
Ebony, Ojo Iredia
Falit, Joseph E.
Fawcett, Shaun
Fitzgerald-Clarke, Michael
Fleming, Suzanne
Fries, Todd
Gheorghiu, Cristache
GOrDon, Gregory
Huchu, Tendai
Izuogu, Victor
Jacobsen, Heidi
King, Nigel
Kumar, G. Ram
Lake, Gina
LaRocca, Kay
Lay, Vicheka
Litt, Dr. Jerome Z.
Majumdar, Pritis Chandra
McCulloch, Iain
Merrow, Liz
Miller, Harley
Maffey, Laura
Maffey, Riccardo
Milazzo, Ronald
Minya, Dzimba
Nath, Bhasurananda
Neo
Nirmala
O'Brien, Benjamin
Okonkwo, Ikechukwu
Patterson, R.J.
Purcar, Gabriela
Ridner, Melanie
Rinaldi, Jacquie
Roberts, Ella
Rutz, Gary
Sharp, Ian
Sooriyarachchi, Janaki
Spudich, Giulietta
Ştef, Dorin
Stull, Blaire
Taylor, Roy
Thomas, Dennis
Thompson, Tantse
Turley, Keith
Vine-Knight, Leo
Watson, Rob
Wear, Milt
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Laura Maffey, a British national of Italian origin and a member of the Fabian Society, has been doing research on Sigmund Freud's metaphysics for quite a few years without failing, in spite of the present outwards-expanding environment, to look after her house and garden...and her husband. In the past she pursued interests as diverse as interior decoration and the voicing of educational programmes for publishing houses and literary commentaries for broadcasting stations, including the Radio of the Daily American. After completing the Open University Mathematics Course (and passing the exams) she read Health and Social Care and Psychology, but decided not to work for any qualifications in the belief that any formal training puts orthodoxy before learning, hindering the individual from his cultural development.
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The milieu of the poor writer, admirably sketched in the eighteenth century by the satirist Tobias Smollet, relives more than a hundred years later in George Gissing's fiction. Another place, another time…and yet his masterly work resembles a media scenario of our own day, with the same contrast between the idealist and the pushy, the romantic and the cynic, the generous and the selfish, the thoughtful and the flippant, the stylist and the pedantic. Yes, its players seem to anticipate the main ingredients of the present literary world, from the brutality of the market to the hardship of intellectual life to the poverty of mass taste to such controversial issues as women's rights. No wonder George Orwell regarded Gissing as one of the most fascinating Victorian novelists and New Grub Street as one of most poignant novels in the history of English literature.
 
Everybody is a conformist of some conformity, and so were the English upper class in the thirties as the winds of change challenged the dogmas of the Empire. A story of individual emotional struggle within the impositions of society towards the end of the Forsyte saga. A plot of love and conflict revolving around a Great War veteran and poet, his adoring fiancée, and a bigoted dandy: the unconventional Wilfrid Desert, the son of a lord, a loner who renounced Christianity for Islam when Arab fanatics threatened him at pistol point; the charming Dinny Cherrell, a patrician girl who loved him and was prepared to defy her world's moral code for him; and the elegant horse breeder Jack Muskham, a formalist sticker who used all plausible means to ostracise him for bringing the country into disrepute.
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