Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield”

enter site Well, surprise surprise, I mentioned somewhat earlier in this catalogue that I strove mightily to use only one representative novel for each author, so as to include more authors and more of a variety of authors, but that in two instances I just couldn’t limit their contributions to lovable English language novels and had to… Continue reading Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield”

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Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House”

https://www.elevators.com/dkfci82p Charles Dickens is the most prolific and popular novelist of Victorian England, and it would be impossible to conceive a list of the great English language novels without considering his contribution. But oh my, what a plethora of choices! One could simply yield to the temptation of picking a novel that everybody already loves—to pick,… Continue reading Charles Dickens’ “Bleak House”

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Wilkie Collins’ “The Woman in White”

https://purestpotential.com/o8fhgvi7qij Wilkie Collins was a struggling young Victorian novelist and playwright until 1851, when he met Charles Dickens and his life changed. Dickens became his close friend and literary mentor, and began publishing some of Collins’ efforts in his own periodicals. Particularly in the period from 1859 to 1869, Collins put out his best work, including… Continue reading Wilkie Collins’ “The Woman in White”

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J.M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians”

here J.M. Coetzee is probably less well known than he deserves to be because he deliberately avoids publicity and keeps a low profile.  But he is one of the most acclaimed living writers in the English language, having won the 2003 Nobel Prize in literature after previously winning the Booker Prize twice and the CNA Literary Award… Continue reading J.M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians”

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