Posted in Uncategorized, tagged edwin a abbott, flatland, jasper fforde, Rosemary Jann, the well of lost plots, victorian novel on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)
I must admit some reticence towards this book. I had read only a summary of it and was uncertain how a novel told from the point of view of a square could possibly work. I think I might have been expecting twee, or a work flawed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Edward Abbey, face of another, kobo abe, penguin classics, review, woman of the dunes on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As this is a fluid process there will always be factors unconsidered that come into play. Today I have found one: where as I have been able to source most of the books on this list a certain few are proving difficult to find, particularly the two Kobo Abe novels: Woman of the Dunes and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bridget jones, classics, Dickens, Diderot, Edward Abbey, madame bovary, penguin classics, Stefan Zweig on May 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The challenge: To read the classics from A to Z.
It is a challenge I have long thought of undertaking, and now with my life in a state of flux, where almost everything seems impermanent, transitorily temporal, to read the classics seems a grounding idea, a rooting force.
It is also a challenge born out of [...]
