“... was restless and throbbing with movement; streams were gliding forward filled with a longing for unknown waters; winds were moving to and fro with the indecision of homeless wayfarers; leaves were dropping from the brown branches, falling down the curves of the wind silently and slowly to the great earth that whispered out the secret of everlasting ...”

“... and lest we should miss the point, ‘Hail, divine innocence!’ growls the author. In ‘The Unknown Woman’ (a tale which Raitt considers misogynistic, though if we are to read it in that way it is better termed misanthropic), the heroine, cut off from ordinary life by deafness – and by superiority of sensibility – tells her would-be lover, himself ...”

“... would be if Max Ophuls had decided to make a film of it, as he did of Zweig’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’. Zweig’s text unites perfect narrative control with exceptional psychological subtlety. But it also shows an extreme attention to visual detail – never the set-piece description but the kind of ‘close-up’ at a moment of high drama which ...”

“... in the proper style, ‘down through a seam in the mantle of darkness that covers the face of the unknown, down into the depths of my subconscious’ – hallucinations and a giddying amnesia take him over without his knowledge. The most frightening part of the book is the queasy middle section, where hypnotic regression therapy (in which Gregory is ...”

“... it was a male passion. In the touching novelette Sleeping Fires, a father is united with his unknown son in Athens; the agent of reunion is a Classics don who is ‘bear-leading’ the young man. In this Classical setting, a natural sympathy declares itself between father and son: it would have been impossible for Gissing to imagine anything of the kind ...”

“... the impossibility (because of the fear of a new pain) of turning over on my right. Waking at some unknown hour to find a West Indian staff nurse standing at the bedside, gazing down at me, and hearing her whisper: ‘I frightened you.’ My wish to tell her that nothing could have been further from the truth – how could I have been frightened by so intent ...”

“... in the 19th century, he spent the rest of his working life. This sort of thing was not totally unknown. Both Mills had sojourned in the India Office. But it was not truly what Arnold wanted, although his mother wanted it, and after Kay-Shuttleworth’s departure from the education office he came under less obliging heads. Ralph Lingen, who remembered him ...”

“... did so with skill and endless enthusiasm. His review of Where Angels Fear to Tread gave a new and unknown author ‘a chance of reaching a public’, and Forster was always grateful for it. Reviewing Forster’s second novel, The Longest Journey, Garnett quoted a remark of Agnes in the book. She asks Rickie why he can’t make his stories more ...”

“... a sensitive introduction linking the Disciple and its crazy ‘true history’ of journeys to unknown islands with myth, popular culture and the land of Cockayne. The Disciple de Pantagruel was seized upon by Rabelais, who put it to good use in his Quart Livre. It plays the role of an Ur-Hamlet to Rabelais’s longest Chronicle. But it is worth reading ...”

“... the various methods used to free the hostages, the broadcasts put forth an impressive amount of unknown material, and there were moments when unconscious and deep-seated attitudes were suddenly illuminated. One such moment occurred when Christian Bourguet described his meeting in late March 1980 with Jimmy Carter at the White House. Bourguet, a French ...”

“... hammer yet another nail in the coffin housing the strange thesis that marital affection was unknown in England before the 18th century. Above all, the correspondence gives an extensive and splendidly clear view of what the facts of place-hunting, favour-hunting and royal patronage – those desires and ambitions by now widely recognised as the essential ...”

“... such thing, since not only is his motive non-thieving but he is unaware of his own actions, being, unknown to himself, drugged by opium. My hypothesis is that, by a refinement on Collins. Dickens used the present tense in Drood for chapters where something is seen to happen and can be vouched for in good faith by the narrative and yet is not what really ...”

“... matter it dropped by the edge of the ocean, Cocooned in unconsciousness and grass, An existence unknown to itself, Waiting to be spun by nimble tongues into languages. Let us conciliate the powers by giving them names. Let us swallow the worm. Let us tame the world by taking it into ourselves. Art The dragons and the lions are furious. They would like to ...”

“... especially with Dodsworth’s Hamlet Closely Observed, that the fruitfulness of delaying is not unknown, since this is a book that has clearly taken years of thought and work. It is fastidious, slightly cliquey (in its references to other commentators), and meticulous. It seeks to avoid the rhetoric that may be said to come from over-identification with ...”

“... in Woolf’s writing interaction takes place at the level of the individual, or of multiple unknown individuals. She shows no interest in the idea of the state. The charge that used to be brought against Virginia Woolf was that she was not political. Leonard Woolf contributed to this myth both by saying that she was the most unpolitical person he had ...”