Beston felt that “the world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things.” This statement, penned almost one-hundred years ago, I believe, holds true today. This classic of American nature writing highlights our need for nature, in its most wild and pure.
Read MoreI love Victorian ghost stories because they embody one of my favorite storytelling elements–the past haunting the present. In addition, the function of most Victorian ghost stories was to produce the pleasurable shudder, another of my favorite things.
Read MoreMany claim Charles Dickens invented Christmas. And there’s a reason why. Click on the link for my full review.
Read MoreThis collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of wind, or by a passing ghost.
Read MoreHenry David Thoreau is the giant of American nature writing, known for his masterpiece, Walden. But he wrote so much more. And this book includes all his significant works.
Read MoreThings do not go as planned for the novel’s protagonist, Pip, in his quest to rise socially. And since this is a Dickens novel, rest assured, there are lessons to be learned.
Read MoreRomance, passion, vengeance. Wuthering Heights has it all. And there’s a reason it has not been out of print in over one-hundred and seventy years.
Read MoreReading this book is like having your own personal tour of ten famous houses in literature, such as: Rebecca’s Manderley, Great Expectations’s Satis House and Jane Eyre’s Thornfield Hall.
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