The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen began as a 1958 novel, then a 1960 British film, which inspired a comic book series from 1999-2019, and another film in 2003. It might be set to return to the screen in the future. Let’s go back to the beginning before we go back to the future. British author Bertram…
Category: Book Review
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Book review of a lesser-known novelist of the 19th century
The Gentleman in the Parlour by Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham writes of his travels in 1922 to Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia
Letters to His Son by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Letters from a father to his 14-year-old son, written in 1746, on becoming a man of the world and a gentleman …
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A fictional story of Count Rostov under house arrest at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow
Have you reached adulthood?
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett documents decade-long research of 18-29 year olds on emerging adulthood
A Retired Gentleman by Issa J. Boullata
A Retired Gentleman and Other Stories (2007) is a collection of 8 short stories in an 106-page booklet. The author, Issa J. Boullata, is a former professor and translator of Arabic literature, who has written a novel and a biography of Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab. ‘Without a Court Trial’ is about two friends, Abdallah…
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
The Measure of a Man is the autobiography of American actor Sidney Poitier