No blog is an island, and this online atoll has played host to creators, characters and creatures aplenty.
Creators (Books)
A
William Allingham, Anonymous (The Arabian Nights), Aristophanes (Clouds)
B
R.M. Ballantyne (The Coral Island), Homi K. Bhabha (The Location of Culture), Roy Bridges (proposals, plans and presentations, thesis topic, visit to Britain), Hilda Bridges (proposals, plans and presentations, thesis topic), Anthony Burgess (Inside Mr Enderby)
C
Susannah Centlivre, Winston Churchill, Captain James Cook (Journals), A.J. Cronin (A Song of Sixpence)
D
Robertson Davies, Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe)
E
Albert Einstein, T.S. Eliot (free verse, ‘The Wasteland’), Epictetus, George Essex Evans (‘The Sword of Pain’)
F
John Fentress Gardner, Richard Ford (The Sportswriter), Sigmund Freud
G
Geoffrey of Monmouth (History of the Kings of Britain), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
H
Thomas Hardy (Mayor of Casterbridge), Ernest Hemingway, Johann Herder, Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley), Homer (The Iliad), John Hooker (Our Jack & The Bush Soldiers), A.D. Hope (The Wandering Islands)
J
Clive James (Unreliable Memoirs), W.E. Johns (the Biggles Books), James Jones (The Thin Red Line), James Joyce (Ulysses)
K
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr (Les Guêpes), Omar Khayyam (Rubaiyat), Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon), Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions)
L
David Lodge (A Man of Parts, The Art of Fiction), Lennie Lower (Here’s Luck), Malcolm Lowry (Under the Volcano)
M
W. Macneile Dixon (The Human Situation), Thomas Mallon (A Book of Their Own), David Malouf (Johnno), Thomas Mann, Prof. Muir, Robert Musil (The Man Without Qualities)
N
Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
O
Ovid
R
Frederic Raphael (The Glittering Prizes), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), Derek Robinson (Goshawk Squadron), Heather Rose (Bruny)
S
William Shakespeare (As You Like It, King Lear, modern-day novelist, Sonnet 12, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida), George Bernard Shaw (‘What Is Wrong With Our System of Education’), Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mikhail Sholokhov (Harvest on the Don), Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle), Socrates, Charles Spurgeon, Madeleine St John (Women in Black), Anthony Storr (The Dynamics of Creation)
T
William Pearson Tolley (The Adventure of Learning), Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
W
Peter Watson (Ideas), Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited) H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde (Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray), P.G. Wodehouse (Blandings Castle, The Girl on the Boat)
Creators (Movies & Music), Characters and Creatures
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