Tag: Classics

• Pulp Fiction – Classic Covers!

  While trawling around the internet I came across these… Classic novels and plays with pulp fiction covers!!! They’re not necessarily to my taste (I lust after those wonderful old Virago Modern Classics, with the dark green spines and paintings on the covers) but they are great fun. They’re bright, brash, colourful, lurid, gaudy, garish… even…

  chrisharding53

  July 3, 2015

  book covers, Classics, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, pulp fiction, Pulp! The Classics

• Castle Rackrent

  Before reading Castle Rackrent my knowledge of Maria Edgeworth was limited to the fact that she is reputed to have been Jane Austen’s favourite author, and that Sir Walter Scott admired her. This was the first time I’ve read any of her work, and it’s been an interesting experience. She was the eldest daughter of…

  chrisharding53

  January 22, 2012

  Castle Rackrent, Classics, Irish, Maria Edgeworth