One can learn a great deal about a society by understanding its literature - especially its popular literature, and of the Victorian Era, one could argue, that this book was perhaps one of the most popular. It was written at the height of empire - imperialism was not a dirty word, but was felt by all to be spreading modernity and civilisation across the globe. It was this sentiment that stood at the heart of the Victorian sensibility. King Solomon’s Mines similarly has this sentiment at its core.
Peter Goldsworthy is one of the big names of the Australian Literary Scene, however, it’s difficult for someone not subscribed to the major magazines to find any comment about his latest book - Three Dog Night. I just could not find any reviews at all through a search on google (as opposed to ‘The Bride […]
Whether or not the decision to publish this book anonymously was a genuine approach by the author to achieve authenticity of expression (as stated by the author) or merely a clever marketing technique designed to attract interest in the mystique of the author’s own personality (a mysterious leak to the press as to the true […]
It’s always with a certain degree of relief that I find myself coming back to Hemingway. I’ve usually read some impossibly metaphoric and muddied work beforehand - something that is always keen to tell you what to think, expositionally, and yet the clarity of such thought being far from adequate. The relief in Hemingway, at […]