Monday, July 14, 2008

The End of the Bronte's, The Start of Chateaubriand

I finished reading Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, which I liked for its satirical age and modernity. That means I have now read all the novels of all the Bronte's. I found them excellent in general, and their life stories very sad. All in all, I was impressed with their realism.

I also read Chateaubriand's Essai sur les revolutions anciennes et modernes. What erudition there was in that century, what knowledge of Antiquity in all the writers.

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