Hermione Lee
Birth date: February 29, 1948
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I am so glad that this French classic has been re-released to give others like myself who had never heard of this very interesting novel a chance to read it. Extremely well done, a quality that is both dreamy and surrealistic. So many strange elements all set in or near a boy's school. A fete given ...
bookshelves: radio-4, published-2013, london, lifestyles-deathstyles, lit-richer, books-about-books-and-book-shops Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 30 to December 06, 2013 BOTWBBC Description: Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, o...
"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton is a surprisingly raw tale of an independent woman and her descent into desperation and public humiliation. It is a poisonous portrayal of a woman's complete helplessness in a class society. While I found the novel to be perfectly clear on its subject and its mo...
Virginia Woolf's article "On Being Ill" is paired with her mother's guide to amateur nursing, "Notes From Sick Rooms." Hermione Lee and Mark Hussey provide wonderful accompanying essays on the context in which these pieces were written and the interesting ways in which reading them together assists...
Although this isn't my favorite Willa Cather book, I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it. This was a bit darker compared to a number of her books.
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