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Final Thoughts on Lord Jim
Note: Before getting into the review, I want to mention how disappointed I was by the Barnes & Noble Classics edition. There was an unnecessarily massive amount of footnotes, and one of the endnotes disclosed a major spoiler, long before I reached that plot twist! Normally I’d recommend B&N Classics, but this one I cannot. It’s Continue reading
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Romanticism in Lord Jim
Despite a bit of a guilty feeling – not having finished The Brothers Karamazov yet – I was really in the mood to read Lord Jim. This is my second or third attempt. Previously I could hardly get past three pages; now I’m nearly a third of the way through and have definitely put BK Continue reading
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Two short reviews
In the past, I have written these in groups of four, but today I only have two books to review. They each get 4 out of 5 stars, so perhaps there is still uniformity to this, after all? To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee It would seem I should have more to say about this Continue reading
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