This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.
Tag: Classics
Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.
Review: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by David McDuff)
A deep dive into the glorious decline of Russian society.
Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
There’s something haunted and occult about this otherwise godly classic.
Review: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
It’s about whales.
Review: Light by Eva Figes
A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.
Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler
An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.
Review: An Episode Of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
A novel about gardening that is also what it takes to rebuild.
Review: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
An intriguing fantasy drawing on forest myths that is burdened by an unfortunate attitude to women.
Review: The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Light Years is the perfect novel for a society sleep-walking towards disaster.
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