Classics Considered

by Marian H

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  • The Trial

    A good book, a bad book, a “love it or hate it” book.  It takes some willpower for me to review Franz Kafka‘s The Trial as objectively as possible, but I must give it a mixed-feelings rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars. I believe I began reading this book last fall, before putting it… Continue reading

  • From Eyre to Onegin

    After reading Eugene Onegin, it struck me that it shares several essential similarities with a more famous romantic classic, Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë). There’s the Gothic side, for example.  Jane Eyre is considered to be “Gothic”, and Eugene Onegin holds elements of it as well.  The letter-writing scene has a sense of gloom about it,… Continue reading

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  • Dracula

    By Adymark (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0-ro],  via Wikimedia Commons Young solicitor Jonathan Harker is sent on a business trip to Transylvania, where he must meet with an elderly count who has recently bought property in London.  So far so good, until Jonathan realizes there are some strange goings-on at Castle Dracula that defy both science and sanity. … Continue reading

  • Eugenics and Other Evils

    By LoKiLeCh [GFDL or CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Of G. K. Chesterton‘s several thousand essays, the one I stumbled across most suddenly on Project Gutenberg was Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State.  I do not go out of my way to read essays, but the topic had been on my… Continue reading

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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.

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