Manuscripts Don't Burn: The Master and Margar...

In 1899, twenty-three years after her people were declared ‘extinct’, Fanny Smith made a revolutionary recording where she announced to the world that she was The Last Tasmanian. Far from ‘extinct’, she was a proud Aboriginal woman raising her eleven children and publicly singing ...  Show more

A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of war 

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, which tells the fantastical story of a visit of the devil to the Soviet Union, is considered to be one of the most successful Russian novels of the 20th Century. Written in secret in the 1930s when Stalinist repression of the arts was ...  Show more

As well as a philosopher, Fyodor Dostoevsky is most popularly known as a Russian novelist. His works explore human psychology in the troubled socio-political atmosphere of 19th century Russia. His novels had a great impact on psychology, especially of people who lose their reason ...  Show more

Not even imprisonment could stop the Marquis de Sade from writing his insanely intense, unrelenting erotica - and not even Sade's eventual death could stop his secret manuscript, temporarily hidden in a Bastille wall to protect it from looters and revolutionaries, from haunting i ...  Show more

Au XIXe siècle, les écrivains romantiques développèrent un véritable goût pour l’Histoire. Ce fut le cas d’Alexandre Dumas qui, petit-fils d’une esclave haïtienne, devint bientôt l’un des plus grands écrivains français. Ses romans feuilletons tenaient au fil des épisodes leurs ...