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The Age of Innocence

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Author: Edith Wharton First Published: 1920, in the Pictorial Review The first chapter of the Age of Innocence is one of those magical first chapters that contains the entirety of the book within it. In fact, it holds a single sentence that contains the entire book: He had dawdled over his cigar because he was [...]

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Jane Eyre

Friday, September 4, 2009

Author: Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell) First Published: 1847, by Smith, Elder, and Co. Poor Jane Eyre—the doormat of 19th-century literature. Everyone walks all over her, and her mistreatment by other characters throughout the novel is both infuriating and disgusting. From the Reeds and Mr. Brocklehurst in childhood, to the Ingrams and even her beloved Mr. [...]

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In Cold Blood

Friday, June 19, 2009

Author: Truman Capote First Published: 1965, in The New Yorker The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of Western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.” So begins, beautifully, Truman Capote’s meticulously-researched masterpiece about the brutal 1959 murder of the Clutter family in their home, and the pursuit and [...]

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