Don't think Chinua Achebe would have liked this if he did not like Heart of Darkness.
Don't think Chinua Achebe would have liked this if he did not like Heart of Darkness.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
Is this an essay or a novel? Can you give us the title, kev?
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
It's a novel, well boys' story, set in southern Africa. It's a little bit old-fashioned in its attitudes, if you know what I mean. It reminds me a lot of those 1930s Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
The book may not be very progressive racially speaking, but it is surprisingly homoerotic for a C19th boys' adventure book.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
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