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Thursday, June 20, 2013
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Famous Last Lines in Literature
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It is important to have the last word, may be not in life, but definitely in print. Often when we read a book, the essence of it lingers with us, more so if it has been captured in a fitting parting line. Here we have collated a popular list some of the most famous last lines, which have been immortalised over time. It is a bit haphazard, not going by either time frames or genres in literature. We are sure there are hundreds more…see if you have a favourite last line of your own.
"With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them." - Jane Austen, 'Pride and Prejudice'
"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Geoffrey Chaucer's sloppy scrivener unmasked after 600 years
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After more than 600 years, his handwriting that gave him away. The identity of a medieval scribe - who until the last weekend was known to literary history only as Adam the scrivener - and whose carelessness was the cause of such vexation for Geoffrey Chaucer that the poet threatened to curse him with an outbreak of scabs, was discovered through some extraordinarily alert academic detective work.
The sloppy copyist of the words of the father of English literature was revealed to be one Adam Pinkhurst, son of a small Surrey landowner during the 14th century.
The revelation of his name and some of his background, announced by Cambridge University, has caused intense excitement and admiration among specialists in the subject. It indirectly helps to authenticate the two most authoritative texts of Chaucer's great work, the Canterbury Tales, the first long poem written in an approximation to modern English.
It also discloses the scribe as the writer of an elegiac reference in the text of the tales to the fact that Chaucer had died before completing them.
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Caine prize winner announced
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This year's 'African Booker' has been won by Brian Chikwava from Zimbabwe, it was announced today. He is the first writer from the country to receive the award.
The Caine Prize for African Writing, which is worth $15,000 (£9,000), is awarded to a short story published in English by an African writer whose work has reflected African sensibilities.
Chikwava's story, Seventh Street Alchemy, was praised by the judges' chairman, Alvaro Ribeiro, as "a triumph for the long tradition of Zimbabwean writing in the face of Zimbabwe's uncertain future."
He added that the story was marked out by "a very strong narrative in which Brian Chikwava of Zimbabwe claims the English language as his own."
The 32-year-old writer and musician was born in Bulawayo but grew up in Harare, where he performed regularly at the Book Cafe's poetry evenings and discussions. He studied at Bristol University and currently lives in south London.
Chikwava said he was very pleased but also surprised at his win. "I'm in shock," he said. "A few months ago it was not something I had in my blood at all. My head is spinning - it's very exciting.
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