Classic Writers and Everyday Life in the Historical UK
I always find it interesting how through reading fiction written by authors at about the time that the story is set, or shortly afterwards, you
I always find it interesting how through reading fiction written by authors at about the time that the story is set, or shortly afterwards, you
I have just started re-reading ‘The Go Between’ by L P Hartley. I last read it longer ago than I care to admit – in
I first read Anne Brontë’s ‘Agnes Grey’ a long time ago – in my early twenties – about the time that I first read ‘The
The literary critic Graham Handley writes of the difficulty of creating a character who is very good: ‘It is a strange but true fact that
I have often thought, on and off, what a shame it is how few anti-heroines there are in both traditionally published and self published fiction.
I finished this on Halloween – highly appropriately, as I don’t think it will be writing a spoiler to say that this is a
I first read HG Well’s ‘The Time Machine’ in my early twenties, more years ago than I care to admit. My impression of it then
‘ ‘To remark on the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and
Germinal is Émile Zola’s masterpiece, and I am fairly typical in thinking (and I have only read it in translation) that it contains his most
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