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Kafka’s Copperfield in Amerika
“My intention was . . . to write a Dickens novel, enriched by the sharper lights which I took from our modern times, and by the pallid ones I would have found in my own interior.” – Diaries (1946), qtd. in “Amerika (novel),” Wikipedia. It is rarely my choice to read Franz Kafka all the… Read more >>
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Wieland
When I chose Wieland: or, The Transformation for my history class, I was not expecting a masterpiece of plot, philosophy, or characters. I did expect a good old-fashioned Gothic tale with a dash of melodrama, an eerie edifice, and maybe a ghost or two. Sadly, this is the third book connected to my class that… Read more >>
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The Prairie
Chronologically last in James Fenimore Cooper‘s Leatherstocking series, The Prairie follows the wagon train of Ishmael Bush and his family, who are journeying into the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase. The Bushes make their own laws and shun society, even that of an old, solitary Trapper who stumbles across their campsite. He does not fail to… Read more >>
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Paris in the Twentieth Century
This is a remarkable book with an even stranger setting – written in 1863, set in 1960, and not published till 1994. It’s not such a stretch, however, to include it in the Turn of the Century Salon, as Jules Verne was writing novels up through the early 1900s, and he is always associated with… Read more >>
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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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