Book
Company
Legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective
Akenfield
Film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe . Blythe himself has a cameo role as the vicar and all other parts are played by real-life villagers who improvised their own dialogue
Molloy
Irish surname, anglicised from Maolmhuaidh, maolmhuadh meaning ‘Proud Chieftain’
The Decameron
Collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio . The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city
Ficciones
Collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, produced between 1941 and 1956. The English translation of Fictions was published in 1962, the same year as Labyrinths, a separate compilation of Borges’s translated works
Madeline
Media franchise that originated as a series of children’s books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, an Austrian-American author
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Biography of English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya