A rather moody enigma with a plethora of fascinating interests.
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In The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1, 1940-1956, we discover the art of Plath's …
Just borrowed from the library and this is a 1,300 page monster of a tome. I'm looking forward to it immensely though.
Just borrowed from the library and this is a 1,300 page monster of a tome. I'm looking forward to it immensely though.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, …
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris …
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second …
Get Shorty is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard. In 1995, the novel was adapted into an eponymous …
"Published in their entirety for the first time, Sylvia Plath's journals provide a portrait of …
An utterly excellent look behind the scenes of one of the 20th century's most intriguing poets. True, it is not for everyone as these are indeed, her journals. Never intended for publication, they are a hodgepodge of topics, styles, and times that are maddeningly inconsistent. That said there is no finer way to catch a glimpse of the woman behind the poetry.
The single most frustrating aspect of the Journals is what is glaringly missing. Her final two journals were destroyed after her death and it is these that cover the time when she was crafting the poems that made up the collection contained in 'Ariel'. How wonderful it would have been to see how she created and polished those! Alas, we will never know.
An utterly excellent look behind the scenes of one of the 20th century's most intriguing poets. True, it is not for everyone as these are indeed, her journals. Never intended for publication, they are a hodgepodge of topics, styles, and times that are maddeningly inconsistent. That said there is no finer way to catch a glimpse of the woman behind the poetry.
The single most frustrating aspect of the Journals is what is glaringly missing. Her final two journals were destroyed after her death and it is these that cover the time when she was crafting the poems that made up the collection contained in 'Ariel'. How wonderful it would have been to see how she created and polished those! Alas, we will never know.
I would call this more of a skim than a read.
"A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in …
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris …
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris …
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second …
