classics Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/classics-2/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:52:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg classics Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/classics-2/ 32 32 38398750 The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-scandalous-confessions-of-lydia-bennet-witch/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-scandalous-confessions-of-lydia-bennet-witch/#respond Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:53:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18801 If you’ve read the Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice or seen the movie you know that Lydia Bennet was one of the most annoying little sisters in the fictional world, nearly bringing down her family’s reputation with her foolish behavior and hasty decisions. But what if there was more to her than that? Melinda […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/11/the-scandalous-confessions-of-lydia-bennet-witch/feed/ 0 18801 Mrs. Osmond by John Banville https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/mrs-osmond-john-banville/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/mrs-osmond-john-banville/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2017 08:47:42 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9769   “You seem to me, Miss Archer, a person possessed of a large potential; do be careful not to underspend your resource.” I read Henry James’s Portrait of Lady a long time ago, but still remember how bad I felt for its heroine, Isabel Archer. She’s a young American who goes to England and comes […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/12/mrs-osmond-john-banville/feed/ 4 9769 Sometimes a Great Notion https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/sometimes-a-great-notion/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/sometimes-a-great-notion/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:26:59 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=461 When I learned that Ken Kesey grew up in Oregon I thought I was long overdue to read one of his books. I had seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and didn’t think I needed to revisit that subject so I opted for his second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion. The story is set in Oregon logging country in […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/sometimes-a-great-notion/feed/ 4 461 The Way We Live Now https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/07/the-way-we-live-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/07/the-way-we-live-now/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:54:25 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4 I just finished The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (like he didn’t catch shit in school) and while you might think 738 pages is a slog far too great for any book that isn’t part of the The Girl series it’s not for this one. My biggest complaint is that as I read […]

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