Well, if this is a novel for ‘grown-up people’ I don’t even want to grow up.
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Tag: genre: fiction – social commentary
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
My goodness, what a creepy and depressing piece of literature this is.
Continue readingTess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
This story is about oppression, double standards, and the cruelty of pitting strict social rules against the realities of nature. Tess Durbeyfield is essentially a sacrifice to the small god of Victorian values and progress.
Continue readingNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
TBH, getting through this novel was such a chore.
Continue readingWe Are What We Pretend to Be by Kurt Vonnegut
Overall, I’m glad I got a chance to read it and I wouldn’t be embarrassed to lend it out, but I wouldn’t recommend this to Vonnegut virgins as an introduction to his works.
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