Thanks for that - I will need to read it again with a commentary to understand a lot of the details. There are places where I know what Joyce is talking about, but only enough to skim the surface, and others where it is clear that he is alluding to *something* but I have no idea what that might be.

I will bump her up the list! I have been trying to catch up on older writers on the e-reader via Project Gutenberg - I started reading Edith Wharton a few years ago and enjoyed her work far more that I expected to.

I've just ordered that from the library - it sounds very enticing.

I have never actually read anything by Gaskell (one of many lacunae in my reading), except this wonderful abridgement of North and South "with the important bits left out" - of which your post has just reminded me! edwardpicot.com/and/index.html

It must be like the 'good china' - looking all classy and fancy in the cabinet but never taken out for tea! I'll see how I get on.

I'm full of good intentions, but you know what they say about the road to hell...

I have never come across Kahanovich before, but now my curiosity is whetted. You have managed to diminish my ignorance and add to my TBR list in one short post.

Good morning, & happy Monday!
Joyce's 'Ulysses' (book book) & E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The Serapion Brethern' (e book). I started Ulysses before but didn't finish it - nothing against the book, just got derailed by practicalities & never picked up on it again. Finally repairing a large gap in my reading.

Our landscape and ecosystem has been severely damaged for generations and the process by which it occurs is encouraged and subsidised by the State and the EU, initially to meet self-sufficiency needs, but now in the main because of export profitability. A country as an open air cow factory.

Good morning! I hope your week has got off to a good start.
I am re-reading David Herter's On the Overgrown Path, and musing yet again on the mystery of why some excellent books & authors are relegated to obscurity while others enter the collective consciousness
www.amazon.co.uk/Overgrown-Pa...