Lettres, agendas

This e-book is part of the Ulysses’ Shelter project started in 2017 with the objective to build a network of exchange literary residencies aimed at young writers and literary translators. The second …

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837–1887) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1880. Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit …

Guido Reni (1575 – 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style and popular religious works and critically acclaimed mythological scenes. He was a quintessentially classical academic but he was …

The Pompeian Styles are many and different from the periods distinguished by the German archaeologist August Mau. All that is now to update. This book shows a big part of interior decoration destroye …

‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a ‘vulture eye’. The murder …

Tiziano Vecellio (known as Titian) was the greatest representative of the Venetian School and he was recognized as a genius in his own time. He has been an inspiration to artists like Rubens, Velazqu …

Francis Barlow (c. 1626 – 1704) was an English painter, etcher, and draughtsman, mainly of animal subjects, known as ‘the father of British sporting painting’. He painted numerous large canvases for …

I have published some nice poems to this poetry book. Writing these poems, I got enjoyment. I hope, readers will also get enjoyment by reading these poems. …

Honoré de Balzac’s ‘Letters to Madame Hanska’ offers readers a glimpse into the passionate and tumultuous relationship between the esteemed French author and his beloved Ewelina Hańska. This collecti …

The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occ …