We were at a reading by JM Coetzee at the University this afternoon.
Coetzee’s early life was in South Africa. In the early sixties he lived in England, working as a computer programmer while doing research for a thesis on the English novelist Ford Madox Ford. Later in that decade he was in Texas studying for [...]
One of the colleges here is offering a course on the five saddest books ever written. If you believe it, they are:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Awkward Age by Henry James
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
To The North by Elizabeth Bowen
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Perhaps it’s supposed to be the five [...]
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