Have you read a classic that made you wish you truly were part of the world/time in which it was written? If so, what novel was it and why?
Have you read a classic that made you wish you truly were part of the world/time in which it was written? If so, what novel was it and why?
The shire, second breakfasts ?
Sound logic.
Definitely good reasoning.
Little women. Some tough times, but would have loved to be a part of that family ❤
I do look nostalgically back but I am also very keen on showering and that tends to trump the nostalgia.
Jack Finny’s ‘Time and Again’ New York. Late 1800’s.
The Tenant of Wildfel Hall made me want to live in the country, in a quieter and more civilized time.
All Jane Austen novels leave me feeling that way!
Your comment sums up, for me, why I chose a book based in a quieter place and in a more courteous time. I love the kind, loving, creative side of me, and by avoiding the nuttiness of our world that side stays dominant. But I, like every human, have a Mr Hyde lurking in me that appalls me. What’s my answer? I guess it’s to be an introvert.
Thanks.
All books by Thomas Hardy, Gone With the Wind and Harry Potter
I liked the books by John LeCarre and the spyworld Smilely lived in. Also, I liked the books by Wilbur Smith, all of them, though some people think it’s immoral to like his old books. I don’t know what he does now but I think he is still writing. I don’t know what though.
@Martha when I was 16 back in the 1960’s my uncle gave me The Train from Katanga for Christmas and I was mesmerized by it. Also, my same uncle, In the 80’s, taped and watched and loved Smiley’s People.
I love classics, so whichever one I am reading at the moment. Currently reading one by Henry Fielding Tom Jones, written in the late 1700’s.
This enjoyable classic has me reading at a snail’s pace, however I am so enjoying Fielding’s writing style. Looking back to page 236, the author is discussing drunks…..
“To say truth, nothing is more erroneous than the common observation, that men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when they are drunk, are very worthy persons when they are sober: for drink, in reality, doth not reverse nature, or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason, and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many, when sober, have art enough to conceal. It heightens and inflames our passions, (generally indeed that passion which is uppermost in our mind) so that the angry temper, the amorous, the generous, the good-humoured, the avaricious and all other dispositions of men, are in their cups heightened and exposed.”?
Jane Austen, great for People Watching and all that flirting and Smouldering men who profess to having no interest in the female protagonist whatsoever!! Who are you kidding Mr. Darcy?