The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
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The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Thanks, Idril, for that assessment of The Eustace Diamonds - it's the only Trollope I've ever tried to read. My English master at school gave me the run of the English department stock cupboard (I think he was delighted to have a voracious reader in his class!) and there was a whole set of that book, so I think it must have been a set book for some exam one year. I couldn't get into it, he was very disappointed because he was a great advocate of Victorian fiction, but there were so many other books in that dusty little treasure room that I never went back to try Trollope again. But as so many Forum folk seem to enjoy him, I'll give him another go. I've seen BBC versions of his books - Alan Rickman was Slope, one of his first OTT slimey characters, wonderful! There was a very good version of The Way We Live Now recently. I think I may even have a Trollope or two in my Books-To-Read-When-I-Retire box, come to think of it!
Hi all you Trollope fans. Idril, I have read a few of the Palliser novels, in fact, they are the ones I was collecting, in very expensive Folio editions, but the cost became prohibitive. I loved "Can You Forgive Her?", which I think is the start of them, and I love the way he questions a woman's place in society in those days. He is very sympathetic overall, and doesn't really judge. If you like Vanity Fair by Thackeray, you may like The Eustace Diamonds, as I agree, Lizzie Eustace is a bit of an immoral character. He Knew He Was Right is an excellent portrayal of a man obsessed, at the cost of his family, his life, and everything. The Beeb did a wonderful production of it a few years ago, which I am now going to buy, as I've been reminded of it by discussing Trollope. Oh dear, more to add to my never-ending wish list! ;)
Arthur Ransome's Old Peter's Russian Tales. Time to re-live my childhood!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Peters-Russi...3027719&sr=8-3
Time to pass my father's most enduring gift on to my children.
"The Kingdom of God is Within You." Leo Tolstoi
Oh, KC, how pleased I am to know this is still in print! I listened to the stories on the radio on Children's Hour back in the fifties and my mother took me to the one and only book-shop in town so that I could buy a copy. I think it may have been the first book I bought for myself, other than the Riley Classics that were available in Woolworths for 2/6 (12.5p), certainly the first time I discovered it was possible to order a book if it wasn't in stock. I still have the copy and used it in every class I taught.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam first and fifth versions translated by Edward Fitzgerald.
Alice's Adventures Under Ground (The Facsimile) by Lewis Carroll
The Power of Myth and Myths To Live By by Joseph Campbell
Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche
A collection of short stories by Tolstoy.
I liked Anna Karenina. I like Tolstoy's style.
Well, this was actually a gift, but When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race
Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest and Other Writings
1) Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
2) An Irish Mystery by Cora Harrison
3) East Of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
I just bought three books by Agatha Christie:
The Murder on the Links
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four