Ernest Hemingway is one of those big-name authors that I’ve never previously read. Truth be told, I’ve always assumed that I wouldn’t like his books, and that’s only partly because he seems so unlikeable as a person. When I think| Stuck in a Book
In Vicki Baum’s novel, we see post-WWI Germany facing economic decline. The upper class is slowly coming down, the working class is almost out on the streets. The novel opens in a house shared by two such families: the Burthes and the Schliepkes. Geheimart Burthe lives with his wife, his daughter Charlotte, and his son, … Continue reading #WIT #Classics Club: Feme/ Secret Sentence by Vicki Baum (1926)→| a hot cup of pleasure