Sweetness and light among shame and confusion. The greatest of all novels is Leo Tolstoy's final novel, Resurrection. Its effect upon a reader is immense and immediate.
Independent
My all-time favourite is Resurrection. Its themes of social injustice and personal redemption resonated in the Seventies, when I first read it. This, I thought, is what all books should be like: serious, comm ...
Howard Jacobson, Guardian
In Resurrection … the return to the land, as the physical correlative to the rebirth of the soul, is beautifully rendered…The sun glimmers on the river, the colt nuzzles, and the pastoral scene enforces on Ne ...
George Steiner
Sweetness and light among shame and confusion. The greatest of all novels is Leo Tolstoy's final novel, Resurrection. Its effect upon a reader is immense and immediate.
Independent
My all-time favourite is Resurrection. Its themes of social injustice and personal redemption resonated in the Seventies, when I first read it. This, I thought, is what all books should be like: serious, comm ...
Howard Jacobson, Guardian
In Resurrection … the return to the land, as the physical correlative to the rebirth of the soul, is beautifully rendered…The sun glimmers on the river, the colt nuzzles, and the pastoral scene enforces on Ne ...
George Steiner
Sweetness and light among shame and confusion. The greatest of all novels is Leo Tolstoy's final novel, Resurrection. Its effect upon a reader is immense and immediate.
Independent
My all-time favourite is Resurrection. Its themes of social injustice and personal redemption resonated in the Seventies, when I first read it. This, I thought, is what all books should be like: serious, comm ...
Howard Jacobson, Guardian
In Resurrection … the return to the land, as the physical correlative to the rebirth of the soul, is beautifully rendered…The sun glimmers on the river, the colt nuzzles, and the pastoral scene enforces on Ne ...
The singer-songwriter has been a lifelong bookworm. Here, she reveals the titles she keeps going back to and just how she manages to read six books at once.
