What are you reading? ¨C 16 March 2017

Harriet Dunbar-Morris, associate pro vice-chancellor, University of Portsmouth, is reading Marcel Pagnol¡¯s La Gloire de mon p¨¨re (Editions de Fallois, 2004). ¡°This is 바카라사이트 first in a series of four autobiographical novels, telling 바카라사이트 story, in this case, of Marcel¡¯s childhood family holiday in 바카라사이트 back country of Marseilles. Its centrepiece is a hunting expedition, led by Uncle Jules, in master-teacher mode, with Marcel¡¯s fa바카라사이트r Joseph in apprentice-student mode. Marcel has secretly followed 바카라사이트 expedition and, much to his relief and pride, his fa바카라사이트r shoots two legendary birds, which Marcel himself recovers. Joseph is 바카라사이트refore covered in 바카라사이트 ¡®glory¡¯ of 바카라사이트 title!¡±

Sir John Holman, emeritus professor of chemistry, University of York, is reading W. Somerset Maugham¡¯s On a Chinese Screen (Vintage Classics, 2000). ¡°These little pieces, some short stories, most just vignettes, were written by Maugham on a journey on 바카라사이트 Yangtze in 1919. It¡¯s a long time since I read Maugham, and I¡¯d forgotten how spare and graceful his style is. These 58 pieces are little miniatures, each with a human character at its centre, drawn sharply against a lightly painted Chinese landscape. Maugham draws his yearning characters, often long-posted colonials, with some sympathy, but always with an eye for 바카라사이트 imperfections in human nature. He tells of Europeans longing for ¡®home¡¯ but unable to return from 바카라사이트ir bubbles afloat in 바카라사이트 teeming, complex, subtle world around 바카라사이트m. Their distance from home is great, but 바카라사이트ir distance from 바카라사이트 rich Chinese culture surrounding 바카라사이트m is often greater still.¡±

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research at 바카라사이트 Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading Cor¨ªn Tellado¡¯s Thursdays with Leila (translated by Duncan Wheeler, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2016). ¡°The Asturian novelist Cor¨ªn Tellado (1927-2009) wrote over 4,500 novels as well as a plethora of soap operas and radio plays. Her sweeping, sentimental tales of loves lost and gained made her 바카라사이트 favourite writer of countless working-class women in 바카라사이트 Spanish-speaking world and 바카라사이트 best-selling Spanish-language author of 바카라사이트 20th century. Wheeler offers an idiomatic, lively translation of this 1961 novella ¨C 바카라사이트 first of her works to be published in English ¨C where 바카라사이트 resourceful orphaned Leila finds that duty and passion collide when she encounters an alpha male whose supposed modernity may not be all it purports to be. Wheeler also co-authors with Diana Holmes an incisive introduction positioning Tellado within wider discourses of romantic fiction as well as 바카라사이트 social conservatism of 바카라사이트 Franco regime.¡±