Portraits of the Authors as Young and Old (Wo)Men

July 5, 2013 by Christina

I had the fortune of the day off from my internship today and spent it at the National Portrait Gallery. In between exhibits feature the portraits of modern-day, common people, Civil War generals, and political figures were portraits of beloved (and not so beloved) American writers. Henry James, of course, being the exception to this having been born in New York City but becoming a British citizen the year before his death in 1916. I instagramed the eight that I […]

Categories: Bookish Notes • Tags: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgard Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Toni Morrison

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

June 23, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Penguin Classics, 2002. Originally published 1884. 368 pgs. Library copy. GoodReads tells me that I’ve tried reading this book a total of three times — once in June 2009, once in November 2010, and now again in June 2012. The first time I tried reading the novel in print form; the second time I nearly reached the end by listening to the audiobook before giving up to a less than engaging narrator. This is the first time […]

Categories: 101 Great Books, 2012 Reads, AP Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Fiction, North America, United States • Tags: Mark Twain