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Tag Archives: Frankenstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley: “My custom is to undress and sit on the rocks, reading Herodotus…”
Oh, is it, Percy? Is that your custom? I mean, HONESTLY. …and the nights are for ever serene, and we see a star in the east at sunset–I think it is Jupiter–almost as fine as Venus was last summer; but … Continue reading
Mary Shelley: “What terrified me will terrify others.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’s physician Dr. John Polidori sat around one rainy summer night in 1816- they were neighbors in Switzerland – I mean, damn, I want to be at one of … Continue reading
“this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature”
From Frankenstein (which I read over this past week – being pretty much unable to put it down): I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in … Continue reading
The Classics Challenge
I shall participate in the 2007 Classics Challenge. Read 5 classics in the month of January and February. I’ve been meaning to get on this anyway, so this’ll be fun. It’s great to look at the books everybody is choosing, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Evelyn Waugh, Frankenstein, Gulliver's Travels, Scoop
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alice in Wonderland, Amongst Women, Animal Farm, Annie Proulx, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, At Swim-Two-Birds, Atonement, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Don DeLillo, E.M. Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna O'Brien, Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frankenstein, Franny and Zooey, George Eliot, George Orwell, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, Handmaid's Tale, Herman Melville, House of Leaves, Hunter S. Thompson, Ian McEwan, In Cold Blood, J.D. Salinger, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Ellroy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Lord of the Rings, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mary Shelley, Master and Margarita, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Notes From the Underground, Possession, Pride and Prejudice, Primo Levi, Sexing the Cherry, Stephen King, The Catcher In the Rye, The Country Girls, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Passion, The Shipping News, The Things They Carried, Thomas Mann, Tim O'Brien, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Ulysses, Underworld, Vladimir Nabokov, Wuthering Heights
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