The little white attic

1/ Now that I have got acquainted with the fathers of the English novel (Richardson and Fielding), it’s natural that I get to know the mothe...

1/ Himadri (Argumentative Old Git) has written at length about the characters in The Member of the Wedding and the themes of loneliness, i...

(Drawing of Parson Adams, by Thomas Rowlandson)  1/ In an earlier blog post, I wrote that Joseph Andrews , like Vanity Fair over a century l...

As I wrote in the earlier blog post about Joseph Andrews , Henry Fielding takes from Don Quixote the picaresque form: two—and later three—c...

What’s up with me and lists these days? I don’t know. Getting listless, I guess. But once in a while, I think it’s good to look at some list...

I personally detest (identity-obsessed, anti-white) BookRiot. I also don’t like the phrase “people of colour”, especially outside the West—a...

The 1899 list yesterday made me want to look again at a more modern list of greatest novels of all time.  So below is the list from The Guar...