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Tag Archives: The Age of Innocence
Clichés abound : “the first step in a thousand miles” …
My favourite person of the female sex (never let it be said that am not keeping up with the world in terms of political correctness) will be turning 18 next September. Over recent months she has started tackling some of … Continue reading
The Guardian’s 100 Best Novels by Robert McCrum, August 2015: two years in the making, 400 years in the writing…
Still feeling bereft at having finished “Middlemarch” and determined to go the whole hog with more of those classic reads, when along comes another grandiose book list. Will this one stop the Sunday Times’ list from resting … Continue reading
Posted in Book Lists
Tagged Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, David Copperfield, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Taylor, Emma, George Eliot, Graham Greene, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Middlemarch, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, The Age of Innocence, The End of the Affair
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“Middlemarch” by George Eliot (1871) – joining the mile high club…
Deep rapture, euphoria, beatitude and other superlatives. Veneration, wonderment and general doffing of caps. Have finally joined the several mile high crowd of fan club of all things Mary Ann Evans, and what’s even better is that there is still … Continue reading
Literary Trail III – books based in and on the Big Apple
Simone de Beauvoir is apparently often quoted for maintaining that “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless“, while Groucho Marx infamously declared that “Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book – … Continue reading
Posted in Book Lists, Literary Trails
Tagged Americanah, Brooklyn, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin, Colum McCann, donna tartt, Edith Wharton, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Let the Great World Spin, Matthew Thomas, Nicole Krauss, The Age of Innocence, the goldfinch, The History of Love, The House of Mirth, We Are Not Ourselves
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The “Sunday Times 100 Books to Love” list
Another British list, compiled by the Sunday Times and faithfully recorded on Good Reads at the end of 2013. Curiosity killed the proverbial cat, though – by whom was it compiled?? – thoughts at end of the hundred-strong list. … Continue reading
“The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton (1920) – book review
Oh, what a discovery! Initially, found the book so sluggish, especially of course as nothing much actually happens in these aristocratic circles. Then, out of the blue, the pace quickens, the characters evolve (oh my gosh, May!!) and the whole … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, books, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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