Review: Middlemarch, George Eliot
I should explain that this book has been my personal Everest. I have been planning to read Middlemarch for about the last nine years. Actually beginning the novel felt a little unreal […]
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Review: David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Described various as the novel which Dickens held as his ‘favourite child’ or his most ‘likable’ work, I have been meaning to get to it since I first saw the […]
Review: The Mysteries of Paris, Eugène Sue
Weighing in at nearly one and a half thousand pages, The Mysteries of Paris is an intimidating book by anyone’s standards. Serialised over a sixteen month period in the 1840s, it was […]
Austen in August – Review: Love and Freindship & Other Youthful Writings
Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings is a new paperback release from Penguin, offering an anthology collection of Jane Austen’s juvenilia, including snippets dating back to when the author was […]
Austen in August – Review: Persuasion, Jane Austen
For my second Austen in August post, I decided to re-read Persuasion, a task that is in no way onerous. I first read it aged twelve and have revisited it […]
Review: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Oh, Little Women, how I love you. My mother first read this to me when I was six. Technically this is my second review of it as I also used […]