The ancestor of crime and detective novels The Woman in White, written in 1859 by Wilkie Collins, was a hugely successful novel. It first appeared in a serial form in the All the Year Round, a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, Collins’ friend, boss, and mentor. The serial’s success was…
Walk the streets of Geneva in Switzerland to discover the answer Life was complicated for Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and everybody else around her. Mary Shelley (née Godwin) was born in London in 1797. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. Her father, William Godwin was a journalist, novelist and…
After Douglas Adams destroyed Earth for a hyperspace bypass, he allowed Arthur Dent a few hometown memories The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy takes us to far away places following the destruction of planet Earth by the Vogons. Places that leave Arthur Dent all at sea as he adjusts to being the last remaining human in…
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In search of tranquillity, dragons and ancient aliens A one week vacation in the mountain air of Beatenberg, in the Bernese Oberland, in a charming chalet in the middle of pristine alpine meadows with an uninterrupted view of the Swiss Alps would be anyone’s idea of bliss. Then there are some remarkable facts about Beatenberg. Three…
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