A novel that does what it says, painting a portrait of an ambitious and charming young woman as she seeks to experience all life has to offer.
Tag: Classics
The best books I’ve read 2020
The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Review: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
A dreamy, mirage-like novel where things change shape before your eyes.
Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.
Review: Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
A short and brutal dissection of societal sickness.
Review: Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A story of love and war in Nigeria in the 1960s, Half Of A Yellow Sun reaches outwards through history.
Review: A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
A strange, meditative and watery novel.
Review: The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
While the story of The Odyssey is familiar, its narrative still feels more inventive than most contemporary novels.
Review: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Grapes Of Wrath remains a bracingly strange novel about ecological crisis eight decades after it was published.
Review: The Plague by Albert Camus
The Plague is understandably back on best-seller lists: the parallels with our current situation are striking.
