Monday, November 15, 2010
Crimes Against Brevity
Robert McCrum notices that the trend for longer books, fiction and non-fiction, goes against the contemporary desire for brevity in TV, film, and so forth. He offers up his own list to counteract the long-winded tomes. A few of these I have yet to read.
1. George Orwell: Animal Farm
2. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One
4. Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
5. RL Stevenson: Treasure Island
6. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
7. Marguerite Duras: The Lover
8. F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
9. Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
10. Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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