Fascinating – thank you! I have yet to enjoy “everything that W.W. Jacobs has written” (quite a lot, by 1919 judging by his Wikipedia article), but have enjoyed as much as I’ve read, so far: ditto Puck of Pook’s Hill, Karamazov, The Young Visiters (two votes!), The Wind in the Willows (jolly Swinnerton reply!), The Diary of a Nobody, assorted Thomas Hardy (almost everything Wikipedia lists of prose fiction is pre-1900), shorter Henry James works, Ethan Frome (assigned book in high school!), The Column of Dust (interesting to see it next to Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, which was interesting enough as a taste of his longer fiction), my only Compton Mackenzie novel so far (Water on the Brain (1933) – interesting to see two others of his). Lot of unfamiliar stuff which this makes me wonder if I should try…
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Fascinating – thank you! I have yet to enjoy “everything that W.W. Jacobs has written” (quite a lot, by 1919 judging by his Wikipedia article), but have enjoyed as much as I’ve read, so far: ditto Puck of Pook’s Hill, Karamazov, The Young Visiters (two votes!), The Wind in the Willows (jolly Swinnerton reply!), The Diary of a Nobody, assorted Thomas Hardy (almost everything Wikipedia lists of prose fiction is pre-1900), shorter Henry James works, Ethan Frome (assigned book in high school!), The Column of Dust (interesting to see it next to Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, which was interesting enough as a taste of his longer fiction), my only Compton Mackenzie novel so far (Water on the Brain (1933) – interesting to see two others of his). Lot of unfamiliar stuff which this makes me wonder if I should try…
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