The little white attic

How many versions of King Lear have I seen?  If we exclude Ran (a loose adaptation) and the Kozintsev film (in Russian), 5: the Michael Bu...

1/ Now that I’ve finished reading David Copperfield after about 6 weeks (though I did take a break and spent a few days reading The Sorrows...

One of the best things about Dickens is his imagery, especially the way he uses imagery for characterisation. Sometimes it’s just an amusing...

There was a time when I, whenever ill, wondered if it’s some sort of divine punishment. Now that I’m sick the third time this winter, I see ...

I don’t have a lot to say about The Sorrows of Young Werther , my first encounter with Goethe. I’m a Jane Austen girl; Werther—what can I s...

As I was reading David Copperfield the other day, I was thinking that there’s a difference between prose originally written in English and ...

There’s a tenderness to David Copperfield that makes it feel quite different from some other Dickens novels I have read ( Little Dorrit , B...

Perhaps I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I can’t help thinking that chapter 18 of David Copperfield stands out as rather unusual.  ...

1/ Why am I in the 19th century again? You ask. Am I not supposed to be in the 18th century? I took just one book with me to Leeds, is my an...