Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bleak House, Boz, Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Mr Pickwick, Nemo, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, Phiz, Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Robert Seymour, RW Buss, Sam Weller, The Pickwick Papers on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836 – 1837)
better known as The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics, 804pp
Okay, my first admission. This is the first Dickens novel that I have read. As a writer, approaching the age of thirty, this is disgraceful. By now I should have read them all. Dickens is one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Haruki Murakami, Hashiru Koto Ni Tsuite Kataru Toki Ni Boku No Kataru Koto, Philip Gabriel, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hashiru Koto Ni Tsuite Kataru Toki Ni Boku No Kataru Koto (2008)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 180pp
Translated by Philip Gabriel
Haruki Murakami is one of Japan’s most celebrated novelists, and one whose novels I have yet to read, though I have After Dark, his 2004 novel in my ‘to-read’ pile. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alcemi, anglo welsh literature, border country, chekhov with chips, Chris Keil, cultural heritage, dorothy edwards, eve green, geraint goodwin, gomer, gwyn thomas, library of wakes, Liminal, niall griffiths, owen shears, raymond williams, ron berry, seren, susan fletcher, the dark philosophers, wales, welsh, welsh novels, y lolfa on April 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Dark Philosophers (1946)
Gwyn Thomas
Library of Wales, 295pp
Foreword by Elaine Morgan
In 2006 the Library of Wales was set up to reprint classics of Anglo-Welsh fiction, which is Welsh fiction written in English. The aim was to bring much neglected Welsh fiction back to the public, and included such authors as Geraint Goodwin, Dorothy [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy, Beth, childrens classics, friends, Jo, Little Women, louisa may alcott, Meg on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
Louisa May Alcott
Penguin Classics, 224pp
Finally I return to the Classics Challenge after a few months reading some modern fiction. After much trouble sourcing much of the full Penguin Classics list I have had to move onto the first one available to me, which was Little Women, [...]
