A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
By no means the first time I’ve read this little book, and here’s a supplication to the Ghost of Christmas …
Category Archives: Classics
A year among the Janeites
I’ve read five Jane Austen-themed books this year, from memoir to mystery and beyond. What can I say? It was …
A Jane Austen Education – William Deresiewicz
When William Deresiewicz decided to pursue a Ph.D. in English literature, he had to read classics he’d previously managed to …
The Uncommon Reader: Alan Bennett
In January, I read James Mustich’s 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die—and Uncommon Reader was one of the thirty …
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Why did I delay reading this book for so long? I finally brought it to work, where it sat on …
Longbourn by Jo Baker
Longbourn opens with a detailed description of a housemaid’s early morning labors, fetching the water from the well for laundry …
Anna Karenina: The death of Nikolai Dmitrich
I’ve just left behind the chapters about the final illness and death of Nikolai Dmitrich, Levin’s wild, willful, radical half-brother. …
Anna Karenina: Passages
I highlight a striking passage in Anna Karenina, but put off posting it—then find another great passage, and so on. …
Fours books + blizzard = coincidental reading
Thanks to Blizzard Nemo, I’ve had the opportunity to curl up with four books, bouncing back and forth as the …
Anna Karenina: deceit and denial
Anna and Vronsky have an intense relationship that feels—at least to them—markedly different from the casually clandestine affairs that others …
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