Overall I enjoyed this book. While I didn’t agree with all of Worsley’s assertions, on the whole it does make me rethink another book I read about Austen.
Jane Austen at Home
Tag: biography
The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
The description of this book talks about the summer Mary spent with Percy and Byron, but it covers her whole life.
The Black Count
I found this book by Tom Reiss when it was on display at my local library for African-American history month (which just goes to show how long it took me to get around to reading it and then writing this blog post). I had never heard of it, although the cover informed me it had …
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton’s life was so full of action and intrigue that it easily fills more than 700 pages without dragging.