Some I've read, some I've loved, one I can't stand (Wuthering Heights) and a couple to look out for. Particularly happy to see Autumn Journal on your list, so much beautiful poetry..from memory 'September has come, it is hers whose vitality leaps in the Autumn, whose nature prefers trees without leaves and a fire in the grate'. Also 'all of London littered with remembered kisses...' wonderful stuff, thank you.
O Caledonia is one of my favorite novels, and I just finished The Vet's Daughter. Both excellent autumn reads. Quartet in Autumn is on my TBR, and I wasn't familiar with that Hardy, but it looks great!
Rebecca is a *perfect* autumn read, in my opinion. I’m working up the gumption to start in on Kristen Lavransdatter this fall…it’s (very) long, but I’ve heard so many good things about it that I’m quite looking forward to it.
What a terrific list! The Barbara Comyns is brilliant (as are all her novels), I'm currently reading a biography of her by Avril Horner, which is so fascinating.
I love Barbara Pym and Quartet in Autumn is one of her best - slow, perfectly observed,, with the spikes of humour she does so well.
I don't know Lolly Willowes but that sounds right up my street so I shall look for it this week. Also the MacNeice.
The Woodlanders - almost drove me mad. Too long. Too 'Hardy'.
Wuthering Heights - more for winter in my opinion. So histrionic, all that flouncing (Cathy) and all that head-banging, Heathcliffe. But such a complex, dark story with few redeeming characters.
Some I've read, some I've loved, one I can't stand (Wuthering Heights) and a couple to look out for. Particularly happy to see Autumn Journal on your list, so much beautiful poetry..from memory 'September has come, it is hers whose vitality leaps in the Autumn, whose nature prefers trees without leaves and a fire in the grate'. Also 'all of London littered with remembered kisses...' wonderful stuff, thank you.
so many here I haven’t read and need to! big fan of Rebecca and The Scarlet Letter - not so much anything from a Bronte.
O Caledonia is one of my favorite novels, and I just finished The Vet's Daughter. Both excellent autumn reads. Quartet in Autumn is on my TBR, and I wasn't familiar with that Hardy, but it looks great!
Rebecca is a *perfect* autumn read, in my opinion. I’m working up the gumption to start in on Kristen Lavransdatter this fall…it’s (very) long, but I’ve heard so many good things about it that I’m quite looking forward to it.
I tried KL earlier this year. It was a bit of a trial and I didn't finish it.
Thank you for the recommendations! Some number of them are new to me—always looking for those.
What a terrific list! The Barbara Comyns is brilliant (as are all her novels), I'm currently reading a biography of her by Avril Horner, which is so fascinating.
I love Barbara Pym and Quartet in Autumn is one of her best - slow, perfectly observed,, with the spikes of humour she does so well.
I don't know Lolly Willowes but that sounds right up my street so I shall look for it this week. Also the MacNeice.
The Woodlanders - almost drove me mad. Too long. Too 'Hardy'.
Wuthering Heights - more for winter in my opinion. So histrionic, all that flouncing (Cathy) and all that head-banging, Heathcliffe. But such a complex, dark story with few redeeming characters.
The others I have read and enjoyed.
A great list - thanks again.
Thank you Henry. A couple of London novels there that I haven’t read. Thanks for the succinct summaries.