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LitStack Review: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

Published on : 11 January, 201611 January, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

Career of Evil Robert Galbraith Mulholland Books Release Date: October 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-34993-2 Career of Evil, the third book in the crime thriller series starring private detective Cormoran Strike, is the grittiest one yet. It’s no wonder that author J.K. Rowling stuck to her non de plume of Robert […]

On this day, May 6, in 1861, Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India. A poet, writer, composer and painter, he reshaped the literature and music of the Bengali region of what was then-colonial India. Supporting independence, espousing humanism and embracing simplicity, he turned his back on the rigid traditions and forms in Indian literature; his own works were celebrated for being both idealistic and accessible while still beautifully lyrical. In 1913 he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; he was knighted in 1917 but repudiated it two years later in protest of British actions in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. He died in 1941, at age 80.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

LitStack Review: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

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