Showing posts with label english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label english. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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Anne Bront ë’ s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a much-reviewed and well-known classic novel. So can a novel that is a hundred and fifty yea...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

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Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf is the author’s last novel. It is often described as a difficult read. And indeed, difficult it is, not b...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

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  Day by A. L. Kennedy is a complex at times perhaps over a complex novel about an individual’s experience of and response to war. It is set...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Anglo Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson

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This particular reviewer rarely writes a negative review. If it didn’t communicate with me, there ’ s no need to assume that it will not com...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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  Having never read it before, I decided that this must be the time. It is impressive, but it comes across like a middle-class Brookside. Th...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Crown of Blood, The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis

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When they advance, pawns become queens. But to advance, they usually need support from a bishop or a knight from behind the walls of a castl...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Scott-King's Modern Europe by Evelyn Waugh

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Scott-King's Modern Europe is a short, perhaps over-short novella by Evelyn Waugh. Written in 1946, it visits a fictitious part of Europ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Gainsborough, A Portrait by James Hamilton

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Gainsborough, A Portrait by James Hamilton is much, much more than a biography of a painter, though if it were only that it would still be ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

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Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen is a book that now comes free via Amazon Kindle, so there is absolutely no excuse for not reading it, esp...