No spoilers here. Just a reaction. It's been years since I read The Moonstone and The Woman in White. It seemed like time to revisit the other two Wilkie Collins books that are most often recommended: Armadale and No Name, so I'd added them to my Book Jar. Last Sunday, I pulled out the slip for...
Trollope seems to be having a lot of fun in this second novel of his Chronicles of Barsetshire series making it an entertaining, almost light, book for this reader in spite of the length and the somewhat heavy issue the plot revolves around--the heated battles between England’s low and high church c...
the pedestrian three stars rating for this book.it's rather confusing who this book is aimed to. not people who just started getting interested in reading novel, it's not really novel reading for dummies. perhaps for novel reader veteran who has already clocked hundreds of novel? just for them to ha...
bookshelves: published-1866, classic, victorian, autumn-2013, picaresque, gothic Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Wanda Read from July 28 to September 15, 2013 TO JOHN FORSTER. opening: It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad.The evening shadow...
UnCorrected Proof from NetGalley and Yale University PressLet me say straight off that whosoever says they have been listening to Desert Island Discs for fifty years, as this author states, is mighty fine with me.John Sutherland introduces us to myth, and the emergence of the literary epic and the G...
A dense read at times but I loved all the different characters. Lizzie Eustace is one of the nastiest, most scheming "stab-you-in-the-back-while-wearing-a-smile" women I have read in years! I guessed the ending pretty early on but because the characters were so well written, it kept me reading. When...
Disclaimer: Read via Netgalley. I’m tempted just to give this a 4.5 rating simply because the line about the English Football team sent me into the zone of can’t stop cracking up. Fortunately, for non-football (you know, the REAL football) fans, this book has several other things going for it. You ...
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