Judging a book by its cover: The Great Gatsby

Judging a book by its cover: The Great Gatsby

The original cover for The Great Gatsby features a pair of droopy blue eyes and bright red lips placed in the midst of dark night sky arousing the overwhelming sense of foreboding. Evocative of sorrow and decay, these faceless eyes are the central symbol of Fitzgerald’s novel.
Nabokov's prose style

Nabokov’s fancy prose style

Vladimir Nabokov had synesthesia, a harmless neurological condition which causes mixing of sense. His writings are famous for descriptions in which sounds, shapes and colors are intermingled in order to form a powerful sensual effect.

Getting rolled?

           Nothing is worse than getting rolled, oh you don't know what getting rolled means? Everything will be clear after this, although another element is missing…
Re-Joyce!

Re-Joyce!

Upon reading Joyce’s Ulysses, his contemporary T. S. Eliot observed: “I wish, for my own sake, that I had not read it… Joyce has single-handedly killed the 19th century.”

Chasing Fall

It was on the corner where I noticed Fall for the first time. I was walking back, and she was standing at the corner, leaning on the wall of the…

Under-where?

How come superheroes get away with this? How come you see Superman zooming around town, and you rejoice and cheer but nobody is asking the obvious question. How come if…

Book?

When they tell you to read something, you automatically presume that you need to find it on the Internet, well, what if I told you that you can read a…