Posts from the ‘1001 Books To Read Before You Die’ category
This book published in the late 19th century (1885) is listed as part of the 1001 Books To Read Before You Die, which is how I came across it. The book like so many others is in the public domain and accessible through Project Gutenberg.…
As a bibliophile (not yet to the point of bibliomania — then I guess if I thought I was it would be like thinking everyone was out to get to me when probably no one was), I embarked on the quest to read the books…
Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is the story of an idealistic young man who finds that he is trapped by society’s conventions (1870’s N.Y upper crust). He marries not for love but because of convention. It reminded me of Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abby except…
You might ask what Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Seven Summits by Dick Bass and others have in common. It is that human beings have to have a purpose; otherwise, they rot and die. In Ethan Frome, Zenna’s purpose is to care for people.…
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