Monthly Archives: January 2017
Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish. Her family escaped anti-semitic persecution from the Russian government during the 1917 revolution. She relocated to France, and after being arrested in 1942 died in the concentration camp Auschwitz at the age of thirty-nine. ★★★★★ Read Review
Night Falls on the City is the first book of a trilogy that takes place in Austria during the years 1938 through 1945. It is a realistic tale of the pain, sorrow, and loss suffered by a beautiful and famous Austrian theater actress and her Jewish husband. ★★★ Read Review
Forster’s A Room With a View is a turn of the century love story about a young woman from England who feels trapped in a relationship with a man she doesn’t love. Rated number 79 on the Modern Library list of best 100 novels of all time. ★★★★+ Read Review
E. M. Forster’s Howards End, written in 1910, is about the ever present class struggle – the transition of British society from the elite living on inherited wealth to the merging class of self-made millionaires. A fairytale disguised as literature. ★★★ Read Review
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Double and The Gambler present richly crafted, intensely dramatic character studies. One novella involves the actions of a man deeply troubled and confused, and the other novella explores the personality and actions of a compulsive gambler. ★★★★★ Read Review
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