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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
My main exposure to Sleepy Hollow has been through the Disney animation, a yearly viewing tradition in my family. Bing Crosby—my favorite old-time crooner and Washingtonian celebrity—narrates and sings the whimsical musical version of Washington Irving’s stately tale. In it, the hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane is thwarted in love and money by his archrival Brom… Read more >>
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Sharpe’s Eagle (1993) – and some unnecessary yet unrestrainable comparisons to Hornblower…
Recently I found myself in a hotel room with nothing to do and a modestly sized TV playing lots of oldies. I was tickled to see that the Richard Sharpe series was on (all evening, at that). Being a Horatio Hornblower fan—which exists more or less in the same cinematic universe, i.e. the Napoleonic Wars… Read more >>
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The Ice Palace: Tarjei Vesaas’s Peculiar Parable on Grief
The Ice Palace first crossed my path in 2023, and I was instantly reminded of it after reading Anna Kavan’s Ice a year ago. This Norwegian novel was absent from my American libraries, but fortuitously, I was able to find it after moving to the UK. In The Ice Palace, we meet Sissi, a young… 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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