The little white attic

I took these photos yesterday afternoon, with my recently bought smartphone. No filter.  https://plus.google.com/photos/104156964467977244...

I haven't read The Professor , but Shirley is probably Charlotte Bronte's most political novel. The novel, set at the beginning of...

Some writers, such as Chekhov, Turgenev, Jane Austen..., keep themselves detached, hidden from view. To quote them, one must always be caref...

Photos taken by me.  I put this up again, now that the album is completed.  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.601974663269422.1073...

Some interesting bits in Daniel Deronda :  " Some readers of this history will doubtless regard it as incredible that people should co...

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

I finished reading Turgenev's Rudin (trans. David McDuff) some time around Christmas- confused and busy, I didn't know what to writ...

I've just got back from Paris (my 5th time, yes). Hence the absence. Was there from 23/12 to 2/1, I'm suffering from post-vacation b...

This year, to celebrate the bicentenary of Mansfield Park , Sarah Emsley has been organising a Mansfield Park party on her own site. The lin...

Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin, the "hero" of the story, at the beginning makes me think of Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park . Cha...