TITLE: The Count of Monte Cristo AUTHOR: Alexandre Dumas TRANSLATOR: Robin Buss DATE PUBLISHED: originally 1844 (Penguin edition 2012) FORMAT: Hardcover EDITION: Penguin Classics (Clothbound), complete and unabridged ISBN-13: 978...
Human beings tend to cling to convenient obliviousness – ‘I haven’t seen it, so it can’t really exist!’ – in spite of embarrassing, burgeoning bodies of evidence to the contrary. In order for this comfortable bliss of ignorance to be maintained, it follows that any flagging up of the problem will be...
"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad, that, however, isn't the point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the m...
Way back in the late 20th century when I was a teenager and the genre fiction 'industry,' with its absurdly blood-soaked TV tie ins hadn't been invented, I (and many others my age) slumped on the sofa with the novels of DH Lawrence - yes, really- with EM Forster, Emile Zola and of course, a bit of ...
The story of The Plague covers approximately one year in the 1940s, starting in spring. Before jumping into matters a nameless narrator describes the city of Oran at the Mediterranean coast in great detail and declares his intention to chronicle the events that he witnessed there. The main character...
"Treeless, glamourless, soulless, the town of Oran ends by seeming restful and, after a while, you go complacently to sleep there." The Plague is set in Oran, a city in Algeria that experiences a breakout of the Bubonic plague, and is soon placed under quarantine. We witness the changes among this c...
Wait, is this the same Emile Zola who wrote Germinal? Unlike that title, I found this to be repetitive, overly dramatic junk. Completely skippable. I would have tossed it, but it was the only book I had with me on a long flight with a stopover.
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