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| | | | The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Volume Five, 1960 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis (and published in 1983) has me nearing the end of the famous literary correspondence I began reading back in 2018. George Lyttelton had been publisher Rupert Hart-Davis' schoolmaster at Eton; when the two men met as adults, the retired Lyttelon lamented that there was... | |
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| | | | I must admit that, fan as I am of Jane Austen (of her wit and clear-eyed observation of humanity), I have sometimes been conflicted about whether she is, as this post title asks, conservative or progressive. She was innovative in terms of the history of the novel - her sure use of the third person... | |
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| | | | I am a fan ofEdith Wharton and have read around seven of her novels, some of which are part of my personal canon. However, I have only read a couple of her short stories, and she wrote quite a few of those too. In fact, she was a prolific writer. And so, when last week's... | |
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| | The narrator of this novel is, like its author, a middle-aged Swiss writer named Christian Kracht. His mother calls him urgently to Zurich, which is a stifling place for him: Zurich was claustropho... |