Category: Cover Collection
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Cover Collection: Lady Audley’s Secret
Tuesday was one of the most disappointing days of my life – not to mention heartbreaking, maddening and sickening. But after a couple of days of mourning I finally feel somewhat fine thanks to chats with sympathetic friends, intelligent and realistically wary articles (like this one) and just knowing that I am not alone – that…
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Cover Collection: Mansfield Park
Yesterday I bought a Jane Austen themed coloring book and I’ve been having so much fun coloring scenes from all of her novels, choosing colors for Elizabeth Bennet’s dresses, Miss Bates’s ribbons, and Fanny Price’s wallpaper. This diversion reminded me that Mansfield Park is the last of Austen’s novels I have left to read. Though…
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Cover Collection: Emma
I started reading Emma on Thursday night out of sheer desperation. I’m suffering from the reading blahs right now and can’t find anything to hold my interest or anything that doesn’t sound like something else (why does so much historical fiction have to employ the dual narrative these days?) so I thought I’d try a…
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Cover Collection: I Capture the Castle
I started reading I Capture the Castle yesterday and so far find it thoroughly charming. I have seen the film, but I think the book is probably infinitely better as the film wasn’t very good, even not knowing the story beforehand. The copy I own and am reading is quite ugly and not very representative…
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Cover Collection: Testament of Youth
1. Virago Press // 2. Virago // 3. Weidenfeld & Nicholson // 4. Penguin Classics // 5. Phoenix //6. Penguin Books Ltd. I’m in the midst of a small reading slump – I just haven’t found anything lately that ticks all of my boxes or even makes my heart race with pleasure. Thank goodness I…
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Cover Collection: Emma
1. Penguin Threads // 2. Pocket Penguin Classics // 3. Vintage Classics 4. Headline Review // 5. Everyman’s Library Classics // 6. Oxford World’s Classics I’m slowly reading Emma, or trying to, as I am in the most major, epic reading funk of my life. I would say I’m probably in a life funk as…
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Cover Collection: Frankenstein
1. Penguin Classics // 2. Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics // 3. Penguin Classics // 4. Oxford World’s Classics // 5. Vintage // 6. Everyman’s Library // I have read Frankenstein one time in my life and it was not a happy experience. I read it for a British literature class in college and I…
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Cover Collection: Possession
All covers from Vintage Possession by A.S. Byatt is one of my favorite books and one of the only novels that I’ve read more than once over the years. I last read it two years ago and, though it didn’t have the same hold over me as it did when I was 20, it was…
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Cover Collection: Northanger Abbey
1. Penguin Clothbound Classics // 2. Vintage Classics // 3. Everyman’s Library // 4. Vintage Classics // 5. Signet Classics // 6. Headline Review Sunday’s and Nicola’s recentish posts on Northanger Abbey triggered memories of the only time I have read this lovely novel. I was just out of graduate school, living with my parents…
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Cover Collection: War and Peace
1.Oxford World’s Classics // 2. Vintage Classics Hardback // 3. Pocket Penguin Classics 4. Penguin Classics // 5. Random House // 6. Modern Library Classics I have never read War and Peace, but these covers are incredibly enticing and make me want to. I love how ornate and beautiful they are, even the simple Penguin…
A Certain Fondness 