The little white attic

Tom has just written about dialogue in The Portrait of a Lady .  There is lots of dialogue in it, perhaps too much, but do you realise how ...

The Portrait of a Lady has interesting and intriguing metaphors. Generally the metaphors and images and associations are not "random...

Last week I wrote about time in The Portrait of a Lady . I've been reading, and thinking more about it. Henry James skips a few things, ...

It is perhaps considered backward and narrow-minded, even sexist, to speak of the gender of a writer and of their creations, as though the d...

After about 300 pages of foreshadowing... bang! there comes the news of Isabel's marriage to Gilbert Osmond. We all know what to expect,...

Apologies to everyone I've been "ignoring" lately. I've been busy, with studies, work (4 days a week) and personal matters...

Bill Kenny and Ella Fitzgerald. 

Sweet Charity helps one appreciate better the original Nights of Cabiria . By that, I don't mean that Sweet Charity is inferior- of ...

As I'm reading The Portrait of a Lady (behind almost everyone else in the read-along I organised myself), a question arises: Would I hav...

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...