the bookshop reader

Blurb :  Middlemarch  is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the ...

Blurb :  At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve th...

Blurb :  In this portrait of a "young woman affronting her destiny," Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, a...

Blurb:   Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the K...

I've noticed, although I am slightly reluctant to admit it, that talking with people here I write with a slightly different 'face...

In response to the this month's Classics Club meme, I'd definitely say early twentieth century modernism. This can almost 100% be a...

Looking though this blog, I've realised that there are almost as many posts apologising for not blogging or setting out new reading reso...