EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN The large glass windows, the white marble display cases, the gleaming scales, the gilded brass taps, the wood-paneled ceiling, the banquettes lined with plush, green Utrecht velvet, the sparkling tins of canned food stacked in pyramids, the ripe pineapples and bananas triumphantly arranged.| The Common
When my dear friend Janakay suggested that we read a 19th century novel together and after contemplating several possibilities of novels we had not yet read, nothing really excited us. Personally, I was after being totally wowed. After our reading of Rachel Cusk’s essay on Wharton, in her essay collection called Coventry, and even though […]| Silvia Cachia