Kafka "toyed" with death to the extent that his great writings may be seen as a sort of highly imaginative rehearsal for the end of all things: little suicides, if you like.
There are few insights into human behavior found in religion that cannot also be found in the great writings of Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, Hume, Kant and Mill (to name a few), which are as much a cornerstone of our civilization as our religions.
THE SONG THAT GREAT WRITING TURNED ME ON TO Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone (1964) I was reading Dorian Lynskey's amazing 33 Revolutions Per Minute book, and I went and investigated this song because he'd written about it.
If you're an especially well-read person, you might be tempted to gather insights from the world's greatest writings and then jot them down together with observations from your own experience.
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain: Writings 1989-2009.
When the Swedish academy made its award, it announced that it was for her "great, epic writings centring on the effects of race relations in her country".
In their illuminating book, Great Shark Writings (2000, first published in 1978 as Great Shark Stories), Valerie noted that there had been, by the 1970s, only five recorded deaths caused by great white sharks in Australian waters.
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain: Writings 1989-2009 by Ian Jack 325pp, Jonathan Cape, £18.99 "The best Sunday morning of my life", reports Ian Jack, took place in June 1970, as he walked across Hampstead Heath after a successful job interview with Harold Evans, editor of the Sunday Times.
Among others, an anthology of great mathematical writings published by Elsevier and edited by historian Ivor Grattan-Guinness describes the studies set out in the work "[occupying] mathematicians throughout 18th and 19th centuries"—an influence lasting three centuries.
If Britons have heard of Martha Stewart it is more for her dodgy financial dealings than for her gingerbread.Britain and America are the two great cookbook-writing nations, which is not the same as being nations of great cooks.
It's sad that a potentially great crime-writing career was ended almost before it began, but at least UK readers can enjoy this and look forward to the succeeding two novels in the trilogy.
