This is a guest post written by Hannah Gillow Kloster. Franz Kafka’s The Trial is one of those perennial works that everyone has heard of, and "read". Well, I bought the book four years ago (I wrote my name and the year in the copy, thinking to impress my future self by remembering I was "only" 19… Continue reading The Trial by Franz Kafka (Guest Post)
Category: Fiction
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Guest Post)
This is a guest post written by Meg Hayes Fisher. I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. Having been a thoroughly invested fan of Sylvia Plath’s poetry since I first came across my mum’s battered copy of Ariel, I was apprehensive about… Continue reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Guest Post)
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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (Guest Post)
This is a guest post written by Hannah Gillow Kloster. As a huge fan of Jeffrey Eugenides' previous works, I was looking forward to reading his latest major novel, The Marriage Plot. On its blurb, the book purports to be about an English Major writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, whilst around… Continue reading The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (Guest Post)
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Snowdrops by A. D. Miller
The Man Booker Prize has been increasingly 'controversial' over the years and many claimed that 2011's shortlist contained several texts that did not quite live up to expectations. First time novelists were the most questioned entries, particularly as veteran Alan Hollinghurst was not included in the shortlist. One of these first time novelists was Brit… Continue reading Snowdrops by A. D. Miller
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Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier
For his first novel, originally published in Germany in 1995 and only now being published in English, Pascal Mercier chose the academic world of linguistics as the background for the story. More specifically he chose a small group of professors meeting for a conference on the Italian east coast, in a seaside town not far… Continue reading Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier
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Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (2011)
Stella Tillyard is primarily an historian; it is therefore unsurprising that Tides of War, her debut foray into fiction, encapsulates every aspect of the Peninsula War of 1812 – 1815 from the social impact in England to the daily life of the soldiers fighting in Spain. The novel’s title is extremely fitting, though at first… Continue reading Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (2011)
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