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Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs
Having no experience whatsoever with Sarah Orne Jewett I took her book off the shelf with only mild interest. I have a Dover Thrift edition, which weighs nearly nothing and could be easily mistaken fo… more →
Incurable Logophilia
Random Facts about the Victorian Era
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jackthevampire wrote 1 week ago: From this weeks Jam Cellar email, a swing dance newsletter I write: Random Facts about the Victorian … more →
Discussion Post: Uncle Tom's Cabin
KT wrote 2 weeks ago: Welcome to the Uncle Tom’s Cabin discussion post! Remember, those interested in entering the d … more →
Dying
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Max Cairnduff wrote 1 month ago: I’ve read two Arthur Schnitzler’s now, first his 1924 novella Fraülein Else and now his … more →
Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs
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verbivore wrote 1 month ago: Having no experience whatsoever with Sarah Orne Jewett I took her book off the shelf with only mild … more →
a few words on Vanity Fair
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verbivore wrote 2 months ago: Although it gets a bit baggy for about 150 pages in the middle (which is not much when you consider … more →
Book Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte
wolfshowl wrote 3 months ago: Summary: Cited as the feminist antithesis to her contemporary Austen’s romantic 19th century r … more →
19th century comedy, and a WWJED bracelet...
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kwilder wrote 3 months ago: Kimberly writes: I long to blog more here at Georgiana Circle. Time and other blogging responsibilit … more →
Jane Austen - Emma
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verbivore wrote 4 months ago: Last week, after snatching it off the shelves of my favorite second-hand book shop, I sat down and r … more →
Quote of the Day: Fyodor Dostoevsky
santitafarella wrote 5 months ago: From Notes from Underground : “I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a sc … more →
Anton Chekhov - The Shooting Party
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verbivore wrote 5 months ago: Over the weekend I read Chekhov’s only novel, The Shooting Party, which was originally published in … more →
Jules Verne
srscribe wrote 6 months ago: Just recently finished Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth and started Twenty Tho … more →
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
lostspook wrote 6 months ago: Title: A Rose and a Thief Author:vvj5 Rating: All Ages Word Count: 1705 Characters: Rose Tyler, Serg … more →
This made her look so charming that even a husband could hardly remain unmoved
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Max Cairnduff wrote 6 months ago: There are few things less romantic than a French novel about love. A slight Misunderstanding, a nove … more →
George Eliot - Silas Marner
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verbivore wrote 6 months ago: Silas Marner is so different from Adam Bede. I wonder if I had read them blind (not knowing the auth … more →
Gottfried Keller - A Village Romeo and Juliet
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verbivore wrote 6 months ago: When a very nice person from Oneworld Classics contacted me and offered me the chance to review one … more →
thursday reading notes
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verbivore wrote 6 months ago: This week finds me several chapters in to a variety of books – Silas Marner, Experiencing Narrative … more →
no more kittens
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verbivore wrote 7 months ago: If George Eliot refers once more to Hetty Sorrell as a kitten, or describes her kitten-like qualitie … more →
Book Review ~ 'North and South' by Elizabeth Gaskell [with special thanks to Richard Armitage]
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Janeite Deb wrote 7 months ago: I think I must be the only costume-drama-loving-female in all of America who did not see the 2004 (2 … more →
Austen on the Block ~ the Results, May 6, 2009
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Janeite Deb wrote 7 months ago: The results of the Bloomsbury Auction that took place on May 6, 2009 in New York have been posted on … more →
