As human beings with our wired type brains & aging bodies, we are
condemned ever to look forward.
Ravi, did you say you would like to read The Virginians or would try
another long novel by Thackeray. Let me respond, it's only my new
condition that makes me have to do less in literature so as to get to
all I want to.
I don't know if this would satisfy Tyler, but I am willing to read
more of the non-novels, the shorter books and sketches more in the
spirit of Vanity Fair
The trouble is access. I own quit a number because years ago an older
Victorian scholar gifted me with his 1909 set of Thackray's works --
the one edited by his daughter. Immense volumes of several works in
some of them, with all his illustrations. But some is online as
Gutenberg texts, and better some is i print in Everyman, Penguin used
volumes. If anyone is interested, I'm game. These include his Shabby
Genteel Story, Catherine, 18th century semi-history. I'll type out the
titles of texts included. I have 3 such small volumes.
Out of left field, I'm feeling bad the Walter Scott course at OLLI at
York has only 3 people (not me), about to be cancelled. So I think I
might really enjoy rereading Ivanhoe. I have a good paperback edition.
It's been many years.
After The Moonstone, anyone game for Scott's Ivanhoe?
Jane Austen would have loved it, says she to Janeites too
Ellen
Ellen Moody