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The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
Author: Alice Munro Publisher: Penguin Books © Copyright Penguin Books It is said that life is a journey of self-discovery. One of the most important themes in Alice Munro’s The Moons of Jupiter is the...
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A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Author: Virginia Woolf Publisher: Penguin Books © Copyright Penguin Books Written in 1928, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own deals with the relationship between women and literature: how women are...
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The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York,...
Author: Daniel Defoe Publisher: Penguin Books © Copyright Penguin Books The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner is a rich and complex tale of self discovery. It...
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The Gunslinger (1982)
Author: Stephen King Publisher: Penguin Books © Copyright Penguin Books My years spent as a library clerk, manning the counter, smiling to a public ravenous for the latest bestsellers, and restocking...
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The Drawing of Three (1987)
Author: Stephen King Publisher: Penguin Books © Copyright Penguin Books Upon closing The Gunslinger, I needed a breather, I admit, from a type of prose that offered a bit of disappointment for every...
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The Drawing of Three: A Look at Time
© Copyright Penguin Books A series thirty years in the making, Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has sparked the imagination of an entire generation. Along the way, it’s also inspired an inevitable cottage...
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As I Lay Dying (1930)
Author: William Faulkner Publisher: Vintage International © Copyright Vintage International Words are merely symbols for the notions they designate. Depending on our respective experiences and...
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The Hunter (1962)
Author: Richard Stark Publisher: University of Chicago Press © Copyright University of Chicago Press Despite having passed away in 2008, American mystery writer Donald Westlake still enjoys a fair bit...
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The House of Mirth (1905)
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: Oxford University Press © Copyright Oxford University Press Aristotle defines the literary genre of tragedy as “an imitation of serious subjects in a grand kind of...
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
Author: William Blake Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks © Copyright Oxford Paperbacks William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell stands out for its unorthodox perspectives and its combination of genres...
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The Children of the Night (1897)
Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson Publisher: Nabu Press © Copyright Nabu Press Here’s what you need to know about Edwin Arlington Robinson’s The Children of the Night. The 1897 collection includes...
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Dancing Girls (1977)
Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: Seal Books © Copyright Seal Books Reviewing short story collections presents a particular challenge in that each chapter carries its own point of view, characters,...
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Heart of Darkness (1902)
Author: Joseph Conrad Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. © Copyright W. W. Norton & Company Inc. The 1997 edition of the Nelson Canadian Dictionary defines irony as an “incongruity between...
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Lady Oracle (1976)
Author: Margaret Atwood Publisher: Seal Books © Copyright Seal Books Much like The Diviners by Margaret Lawrence, Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle depicts the life of a writer trying to find her place in...
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The Diviners (1974)
Author: Margaret Laurence Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc. © Copyright McClelland & Stewart Inc. What is an artist? What is his or her role in society? According to the 1994 edition of The...
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Jane Carver of Waar (2012)
Author: Nathan Long Publisher: Night Shade Books © Copyright Night Shade Books Here’s my theory about parodies and their appeal: we crave, above anything else, to belong to the secret club that gets...
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Two Solitudes (1945)
Author: Hugh MacLennan Publisher: Stoddart Publishing © Copyright Stoddart Publishing As I’ve mentioned twice now in my reviews of Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle and Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners,...
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767)
Author: Laurence Sterne Publisher: Penguin Books © Copyright Penguin Books Time is a perpetual movement, that of space itself. Like every movement, time has a direction, a focal point toward which...
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Diamond Grill (1996)
Author: Fred Wah Publisher: NeWest Publishers Limited © Copyright NeWest Publishers Limited An American couple adopts a one-year-old baby from Canada. In the months that follow, they spend all their...
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The Stronger (1889)
Author: August Strindberg Translators: Edith Oland and Warner Oland Publisher: Methuen Drama © Copyright Methuen Drama When speaking of people and personalities, it’s difficult to assess who is...
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