Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
John Bayley

Born: March 27, 1925
Died: January 12, 2015 (aged 89)
Bio: John Oliver Bayley was a British literary critic and writer. He was Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
Known for:
- Elegy for Iris (1999)
- Iris and Her Friends (2000)
- Widower's House (2001)
- An Essay on Hardy (1978)






