Our friends at Flavorwire published a pretty cool post on some of the strangest, most bizarre fairy tale adaptations. These certainly aren’t your granny’s fairy tales; these are out-there literary adaptations of fairy tales (which, let’s be honest, started out pretty strange in the first place) to add to your […]
Over at Flavorwire, they’ve published their picks for some truly remarkable literary fantasy fiction that we think will have you heading off to the bookstore regardless of your taste in genre. Check out some of our favorites that made the list and the full post here. Source
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.