The term unreliable narrator was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction: a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. Narrators can be unreliable in a variety of different ways: narrators purposefully hiding essential truths without technically lying, child narrators whose inexperience impairs their judgement, or narrators whose delusion is so engrained in their consciousness that can’t tell the truth because they themselves don’t know it. Here’s a list of ten of our favorite novels featuring unreliable narrators: 1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Image Via Pascal Olivier Humbert Humbert, the main character and narrator …
People are stealing books, but not just any books, specifically “paperbacks by a handful of writers, all of them male, 20th-century, and counter-cultural”. It’s a problem Dina Mardell, owner of Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, knows well. Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac novels, among others, disappeared so often her staff set up a display of “Most Frequently Stolen Books” in a prominent part of the store. Thieves undeterred, Mardell removed titles likely to be swiped from shelves entirely and instead displayed them behind the sales counter, below the watchful eyes of John Wayne. Image Via the Boston Globe Beat writers are …
How do you celebrate back to school season? HuffPo Comedy took to Twitter to play a fun game of #MakeClassicNovelsModern, which started trending pretty much immediately. Here are our favorites. Waiting for Godot…he’s my Uber driver…It’s been like 20 minutes #MakeClassicNovelsModern @HuffPostComedy — Johnny Taylor, Jr. (@hipsterocracy) September 5, 2017 Alexa, Tell Me About Two Cities#MakeClassicNovelsModern — Corey Miller (@StopEatingBees) September 5, 2017 #MakeClassicNovelsModern A Midsummer Night’s Meme — Chris de Mello (@Its_The_Mello) September 5, 2017 Tess of the d’Uberdrivers #MakeClassicNovelsModern @HuffPostComedy — Richard Jeter (@MilesToGo13) September 5, 2017 As My Phone Lay Dying #MakeClassicNovelsModern @HuffPostComedy …
DC Creatives, a husband-and-wife team of MIT-trained engineers, have harnessed the magic of the Weasley’s clock and made it a reality. The Eta Clock (pronounced ate-ah) works with a different kind of magic. Imagine Find My Friends if Find My Friends was less…creepy. / Image Via the Verge Kristie and Eric D’Ambrosio-Correll challenged themselves to combine the best of modern and nostalgic engineering, and I’d say they achieved their goal. At just over twenty-four hours live, the Kickstarter has already raised 15% of its goal. Running until October 21st, you can get an Eta Clock for a backing of $350, $150 less …
Trying to read full-length books online can be frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be. We’ve put together five of the best websites to read full-length books online! 1. Project Gutenberg Image Via Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works and “encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks”, is the granddaddy of eBook publications. Started in 1971 with the digitization and online publication of the first “eBook”, Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, Project Gutenberg has become the standard, as many sites that offer free eBooks gather titles from the public domain, …
