The little white attic

Before I decided to reread Persuasion , my friend Knulp mentioned that Captain Wentworth had some behaviour similar to Henry Crawford’s in ...

As the libraries are closed, I don’t buy books, and didn’t borrow enough before the lockdown, reading becomes a bit of an issue. I still wan...

I’ve finished reading The Age of Innocence . A magnificent novel. It must be Edith Wharton’s best book.  “… he had built up within himself...

Writing about Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf ponders, if she had lived longer:  “She would have devised a method, clear and composed as ever,...

Edith Wharton can sure write about passion. Look:  “"Then stay with me a little longer," Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just...

I have written before about the similarities and differences between Edith Wharton and Jane Austen , so there’s no need to write again. The ...

1/ At the beginning, The Age of Innocence has a harshness that can be found in The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country . I mean, l...

“No one will ever guess the burden of blame I carry on my shoulders; nor will they know that every day, haunted still by doubt, I ask mysel...

In my previous blog post about My Cousin Rachel , I wrote that Philip Ashley’s a naïve, inexperienced man, an easy prey for Rachel—she twis...