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Aug 12, 20161 min read
424. Ivan Turgenev - Fathers And Sons
This is a lot easier than Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky; a quite light social comedy on the surface, although the central figure Bazarov...
Jul 3, 20151 min read
319. Émile Zola - The Fat And The Thin
Zola’s books can be hard work. This is no.3 in the Rougon series; another completely different set of characters. This is set in the...
Jun 17, 20151 min read
315. Émile Zola - The Fortune Of The Rougons
The first in the huge cycle of novels about this family and their antecedents. Thematically, this is the end of republicanism and...
Dec 22, 20141 min read
271. Émile Zola - Germinal
Possibly the best book I have read this year. Zola completely turns 19th century fiction on its head and writes a book in which the...