In his own words
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The Return of the Native
Review: Life on Egdon Heath. Learned about trades on the heath: You feel the moonlight, the desolation, the warmth of the firesides. The dialect is spot on. The life must have changed forever with steam power and machinery to reclaim arable land from the heath. Maybe someone wrote about that?? Very good read. Solid classic.…
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Review: Good. Proust always is. But it’s pretty clear that: Characters in this volume are fairly cut and paste: Maybe it’s the translation, but some of the phrasing is so, so convoluted I had to struggle to see what his meaning actually was. Great, but needed a good editor to cut out some stuff and…
