Literature
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everything has been said about this most revered novel. From its famous beginning about the "truth, universally acknowledged, that a single an in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" to its happy ending. So, for my (fourth? fifth?) rereading of P&P, I didn’t wish to add another serious approach [...]
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
I am at the moment trying to catch up with classic authors I am not yet familiar with: Charles Dickens is one of them. I must have read a couple in a French translation when I was a teenager: Oliver Twist I have read for sure. However, I had never read Great Expectations, which is [...]
Jane Austen, Persuasion
I have read Persuasion for the first time many years ago, just once (not several times, like Pride and Prejudice), and what persuaded me to read it again was my recent reading of Carol Shields’s biography on Jane Austen. When I was studying English lit. in college, explaining a text through biographical elements was frowned [...]