Victorian-era – Reading Along

Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome

ByMichael March 25, 2020March 25, 2020

Young heroes J., George and Harris take a boating holiday along the Thames to escape the weary workaday world and improve their health, but they are ill prepared for the various escapades, difficulties and vicissitudes that they encounter along the watery way. Author Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an…

Non-fiction

Parallel Lives – Phyllis Rose

ByMichael March 21, 2020March 24, 2020

In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot–née Marian Evans. Published by VintageOct 12, 1984 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN…