Dear readers
On the east coast, it is in the middle of the cold wave. I put a hot water bottle at my feet wearing socks under the stacked blanket, wear a sweater, a scarf, and a hat, and write this manuscript. Yes, as John Steinbeck wrote in “Journey with Charlie,” “What is useful if the warmth of summer is not sweet in winter?”
I think some people evacuate to a more sunny literary location facing the blast of the Arctic and the soybean ice that cannot be shaped. But I doubled.
– Sedi
“It was dusk, winter dusk. The snow was shining white on the hills of the folds, and the ice pillars were hanging from the trees in the forest. There was snow on the dark road across Willby Wald, but from the dawn of dawn. The men were cleaning up the snow and the hundreds of them were wrapped in a group of wolves and were frustrated.
I ordered this childhood favorite book, if not very old for my son, to read it to my son. It is — -Ken's language is that Bronte and Dickens are soaked in, and on the several pages we read out, the Podium Entrance, Huidenish, Pelisse, and Petcoat of Petcoat. It was necessary to stop frequently to explain the frills. (I rely on Google.) But that night I picked up this book again, and I was absorbed in reading this book for the first time when I was 9 or 10 years old. I noticed that I was.
Aiken's first novel was an introductory book for me for me. This is a luxurious pettish where your cousin Bonnie and Sylvia are chased by thrilling villain adults and friends with Simon living underground, from a magnificent Willoby Chase to the primitive punk of steam punk. There is an underground cave and interacts with animals. (He returns to the sequel with the heroine of the book after Eiken, the brave cockney, Did Touwight.)
I remember that the first hardcover cover I owned has an advertising complaint, and I was angry that a book reviewer described this book as a “very interesting book.” It was not interesting! It was terribly dramatic. When I feel the fear of the orphans, read the story of greedy wolves throwing myself on the train window, stopped breathing, and seemed to be ready to win the evil tutor Miss Slikp. I was really sad.
As an adult, I can see that this book is intentionally gorgeous, skillfully incorporating all the customs of this genre and exaggerating. Edward Gory's cover is equal to tribute and riffs and perfectly matches the text. But that emotion is also real, and my version contains a short preface by the author's daughter who talks about this. Liza Eiken wrote that what began as an architized parody was aside when his father had died, his mother had to feed a young family, and had to send out children. “It's true that she enjoyed the melodram I read as a child, but now I have experienced tragedy and poverty, and I was able to write about melodrama with authority.”
I agree with another modern book review. As the time magazine says, this book is a “small masterpiece”.
Please read if you like: “Jane Air”, “Oliver Twist”, “Little Princess”, “Hugo Cabre”.
Included: It's not out of print, so it's easy to get (you can order from a publisher at most bookstores), but there are many affordable used hard cover, so I think it's a book you want to inherit.
“Radetsky March” by Joseph Ross
Fiction, 1932
A few months ago, my friend and I found this book at the museum shop. When I knew I had never read the book (or I just read it in a way that was too young and checked on the list when I was college when Michael Hoffman was translated. She claimed to buy a book. Copy on the spot. It was one of the great gifts.
“Radetsky March” (named after Johann Strauss's work), which is the most highly valued in Roth's works, is a metaphor of the fate of the Austrian -Hungarian Empire, where the story of a family is often covered with snow. It is a story of multiple generations. In 1859, Lieutenant Trotta, a humble born, saved the lives of the emperor Franz Joseph in a battle, was destroyed by a baron, dragging him into a upstream society. Unfortunately, his courage is distorted and athlast, the truth of the case becomes ambiguous, leading his family in a dangerous direction.
“Before retiring every night and every morning, he repeats his new class and new status in his heart, as if his life was exchanged for a new heterogeneous life manufactured in the workshop. Walking towards the mirror, despite the fact that the fate of the siblings was the same, and so far. Despite his own wasteful efforts to meet anyone without being shy, he seemed to be losing equilibrium for a lifetime. I felt that I was chased by a secret story, and was sentenced to a slippery ground while waiting for a shyness. “
Later generations (currently claiming to be the Von Trotta family) do not share any ambiguous emotions or social anxiety like the baron at all, and the empire is prosperous and makes it easier for the nobleman's privilege and rights. Inherited. Even if each generation falls into an incompetent, they feel that they are a member of the great military dynasty.
The “Radetsky March” (and its wonderful sequel “The Tomb of the Emperor”) is ambitious in that range, and it is wonderful, but the genius of Roht is patience. It is strong, skeptical, but not inhumane. It evokes a rich detail of food, texture, and costumes, which characterize his evolution of his world. I understand that Ross, who fled from Nazism and died in Paris in 1939, was commenting on his moment. It seems obvious that his work, which skillfully analyzed the dangers of power and the vulgarity of the empire, continues to be as meaningful as before. See. In this book epilogue, sugar is given to Canary after the funeral. “” It's going to live longer than us, “said Trotta.” Thank you! “
Please read if you like: “War and Peace”, “Leopard”, “Buddenburg”, Austrian expression.
Acquired location: A good indie bookstore can be ordered from Overlook. Here is my thing from here.
Why don't you do it …
Do you make it a family problem? Reading “Willoby Chase”, I fell a little into the hole of Joan Eiken's rabbit. I have read a few books for her adults (I strongly recommend “A Touch of Chill: Tales for Sleepless Nights”, but it will take a lifetime to read all her works). On the library bookshelf, her American father, Conrad Aken, has an autobiographical novel “Ushianto”, and in this novel (even in other truths), his parents' murder suicide, his three marriage, TS Elliott. And the friendship with Ezura is talked about. Pound (irony, disguised as “Rabb Ben Ezura”). It is a historical drama that focuses on symbolism rather than a 2025 must -read book, but is still attractive.
Do you forge until you succeed? GROLIER CLUB has a nice exhibition and can be viewed online. – “Fantasy book: Lost, unfinished, fictional work that can only be found in other books.” Curator's lead buyers will exhibit 100 books created and reproduced, such as unfinished books, fictitious books (books in other novels and dramas), lost books. From “I found the labor of love” (sequel to Shakespeare), the Wood House's Gebus (“Brave Women”) and the AS Baiat “Possession” (“Landolph Henry Ash” “Including”) From mentioned novels to Confucian textbooks where no wreckage remains. This project is wonderful, beautiful, fun, and reminiscent of human curiosity. Please check it out.
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