Wanting
ISBN:
9781848870727 (1848870728)
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Australia,
Post Colonial,
Tasmania,
Victoriana
You see, reason, gentlemen, is a fine thing, that is unquestionable, but reason is only reason and satisfies only man's reasoning capacity, while wanting is a manifestation of the whole of life.-- Fyodor DostoevskyI’ve rarely read anything as compelling and heartbreaking as Flanagan’s description of...
Charles Dickens in London was struggling with his inner self. His wife and children do not appear to satisfy him any longer. Everything at home irritated him and he longed… oh, he longed for something…’The way we are denied love,’ he [Dickens] continued, and she, along with the audience, could hea...
I read this shortly after reading Drood and The Terror by Dan Simmons, and there's a good deal of overlap in characters and themes (Sir John Frnklin, Charles Dickens). That being said, this book is nothing like those.
The war had ended as wars sometimes do, unexpectedly. Page 198 - It was 1844. The last pair of great auks in the world had just been killed, Friedrich Nietzsche born, and Samuel Morse sent the first electrical communication in history. It was a telegram that read: 'What hath God wrought'.
I renewed this three times, which is the limit for my local library. I got less than 1/3 of the way through it in that time. The book had some interesting things to say about racism and the way some cultures (primarily white cultures) try to impose themselves on others, Unfortunately, I don't know w...
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