‘A poor translation will kill even the most beautifully written, imaginative book.’ One of the most difficult things to realize when one is young is that all the awful odds and ends taking place round one are, in fact, the process of living...
“I like to read about people who have done nothing spectacular, who aren’t beautiful or lucky, who try to behave well in the limited field of activity they command, but who can see, in the little autumnal moments of vision, that the so called ‘big’ experiences of life are going to miss them; and I like to read about such things presented not with self pity or despair or romanticism, but with realistic firmness & even humour, that is in fact what the critics wd call the moral tone of the book.”
Steve M, Christof C, Tyson F, James C etc agree with Henry Adams that "Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends." I will need The entire Vrbov Cemetery to myself ...
Why Go Set a Watchman is a much better novel than To Kill a Mockingbird New Statesman
Jane Ciabattari finds that early assessments of the “new” Harper Lee novel fall into five categories.
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