The little white attic

1/ Prejudice against novel readers:  The prejudice that we care more about books than about life and live too much in the mind. The prejud...

Henry James doesn't only show. He tells. He tells a lot. What can we say about Isabel Archer after 9 chapters? Unexpectedly pretty, cha...

Looking back, I realise that this year I've done lots of things for the 1st time: getting a smartphone, buying things on Amazon, writing...

I’ve just started reading The Portrait of a Lady . My intention was to make it a read-along, with an announcement and all that, but I won’t...

The film opens with a couple. The scene shows the woman, played by Giulietta Masina, standing by the river, looking happy and swinging her p...

1/ Middlemarch (Kerry McSweeney): - p.3: Caleb Garth, like Adam Bede, is based on George Eliot's father. - p.7: "It would be of ...