Category: Short Stories

• Gogol

  Gosh, where do I start on this one? First, a huge thank you to Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings for introducing me to Nikolai Gogol, who I thought would be ‘difficult’ and well outside my usual comfort zone, but turned out to be enormously enjoyable and very accessible. The five short stories gathered together in…

  chrisharding53

  March 14, 2020

  Short Stories

  19thC literature, And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon, Gogol, Russian literature

• The Blush

  Here we have another Virago (after all, LibraryThing’s All Virago All August is still running). The Blush, is a collection of 12 short stories by Elizabeth Taylor who, unlike Lisa St Aubin de Teran in my last post, could never, ever be accused of melodrama, although she can, on occasions, be much darker than you might expect.…

  chrisharding53

  August 9, 2016

  20thC, Short Stories, Virago

  Elizabeth Taylor, The Blush