Byline: JEREMY HODGES Balamory (BBC2); Hidden Treasure Houses (C5) FOR centuries the aristocracy have been custodians of Scotland's heritage, accumulating great quantities of artefacts. Some are also keen amateur historians and can display considerable erudition when talking about their ancestors. Other...
Balamory (BBC2); Hidden Treasure Houses (C5) FOR centuries the aristocracy have been custodians of Scotland's heritage, accumulating great quantities of artefacts. Some are also keen amateur historians and can display considerable erudition when talking about their ancestors. Other aristos have preferred less...
On a good day, you can squint at the four Democrats seeking to be the next Mayor of New York and the fifth Democrat trying to hold onto that job, and see a group worthy of the world’s greatest city. There’s the up-by-his bootstraps Latino...
Why has John Fowles grown so slowly? What can explain the combination of conceit (the publication of his personal philosophy in The Aristos and, worse, of his poetry) with the insecurity shown by post-publication revision? (The Aristos … appeared in first and revised editions [as did The Magus].) The answer seems to lie in Fowles's inability to reconcile his intellectual beliefs about what men and novelists should be with his own strongest instincts and abilities. Evident in his works are two ...
