bookshelves: e-book, gutenberg-project, published-1815, satire, britain-wales, amusing, re-visit-2016, regency-romp1811-1820, winter-20152016, lit-richer-jan-2016, lit-richer, radio-4x, play-dramatisation, under-100-ratings, philosophy Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from October 04, 200...
BLUF: Good concept, but the relationship is overly idealistic and keeps the reader at an arm’s distance.In hindsight…I chose this book to fulfill the “classic romance” portion of my 2015 reading challenge. I don’t really know what a classic romance is, but most books on the classic romance list were...
My second Peacock and if it's as darkly funny as Nightmare Abbey I will be best pleased.In one of those beautiful vallies, through which the Thames (not yet polluted by the tide, the scouring of cities, or even the minor defilement of the sandy streams of Surrey,) rolls a clear flood through flowery...
The ambiguous light of a December morning, peeping through the windows of the Holyhead mail, dispelled the soft visions os the four insides, who had slept, or seemed to sleep, through the first seventy miles of the road, with as much comfort as may be supposed consistent with the jolting of the vehi...