Thought reading – Calmgrove Books
View of the south side of Piccadilly beside Arlington and St James’s Streets, March 1923. ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ by Virginia Woolf, first published in The Dial, Volume LXXV…| Calmgrove Books
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925, Penguin Classics 2020) Since taking nearly two years to read Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu six years ago, I’ve had a classic slow-read on the go most of the time. When I’ve embarked … Continue reading →| Me fail? I fly!
Monday sees the launch of our 10th Anniversary Club Reading Week, where we’re focusing on the year 1925. It was a stellar one, which saw the publication of some classic books, and we’re very much looking forward to hearing about what you read. I will have a dedicated page on my site, and you can […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925, Penguin Classics 2020) I was listening to Christopher Lydon’s Open Source podcast when he interviewed Merve Emre, editor of The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (Ms Emre is from the US, so her book adds a period … Continue reading →| Me fail? I fly!
View of the south side of Piccadilly beside Arlington and St James’s Streets, March 1923. ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ by Virginia Woolf, first published in The Dial, Volume LXXV…| Calmgrove Books
El 80 aniversario de la editorial Paidós había que celebrarlo de alguna manera especial. Y la convocatoria de un premio destinado a reconocer un ensayo sobre| www.revistamercurio.es
Each was surprised. Heavy curls hung down on either side of Miss Barrett’s face; large bright eyes shone out; a large mouth smiled. Heavy ears hung down on either side of Flush’s face; his eyes, too, were large and bright: his mouth was wide. There was a likeness between them. As they gazed at each other each felt: Here am I— and then each felt: But how different! Hers was the pale worn face of an invalid, cut off from air, light, freedom. His was the warm ruddy face of a young animal; ...| yirt
‘We English,’ Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin allegedly remarked, following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, ‘hate fascism, but we loathe bolshevism as much. So, if there is somewhere where fascists and bolsheviks can kill eac [...]| Richard Baxell
