In September, I read two books, vastly different from each other, but both had at their core, the relationship between men and women, specifically between a husband and wife. In Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim, young Lucy Entwhistle, in a shell-shocked condition after the death of her father, meets Everard Wemyss. Everard, himself, is trying … Continue reading Two Classics about Man-Woman Relationship: Vera (1921) and The Stepford Wives (1972)
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Forgotten Book: Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
One of the pleasures of reading vintage fiction is the sudden encounter with a forgotten figure. Ghosts who now flit only in dusty archives stand in front of you as warm living presences. Thus it was that in Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow that a character mentioned Mrs. Besant and suddenly Annie Besant (whom I must … Continue reading Forgotten Book: Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
