The little white attic

- 10 favourite novels (updated): Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Pnin by Vlad...

I've just come across a blog post suggesting that readers intimidated by "long, challenging, and/or depressing classic novels"...

Page 193 of Middlemarch : "These were actually Lydgate's first meditations as he walked away from Mr Vincy's, and on this gro...

European languages, you see, can have different variants of the same names, like Natasha in Russian is Natalie in French, Pyotr in Russian i...

Anna Karenina (Lev Tolstoy) War and Peace (Lev Tolstoy) Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov) Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) A Hero ...

http://thelittlewhiteattic.blogspot.com/2014/04/russian-literature-2014-im-participating.html I managed 11 books, or 12 if Pnin counts. L...

I've finished reading another book by Gogol. This one is a collection of short stories, translated by Mary Struve, consisting of "O...

I've just read Nabokov's lecture on Dead Souls in Lectures on Russian Literature .  It will not be summarised, and should be read ...

Tom (Amateur Reader) at Wuthering Expectations describes  Dead Souls as overpopulated . That's very true. A few days ago I wrote that ...

Chapter 5, a scene of Chichikov escaping from Nozdryov's home. He already turns chicken. "... 'Say what you like', he sai...

Lately I've been reading Dead Souls , translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Writing about a book that has so much in it...