tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post9076339719033350106..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The Golden Age of Scottish fiction - Scott, Galt, Hogg, and Ferrier, plus CarlyleAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45947949101366896202010-01-26T13:22:35.694-06:002010-01-26T13:22:35.694-06:00Well, I've taken the Complete Walter Scott ont...Well, I've taken the Complete Walter Scott onto my Kindle (starting to get very addicted to the Complete Works of every- classic-writer-known-to-history for 2.99 on my Kindle...I'm carrying several roomfuls of powerful lit around with me at all times - how reassuring). Will start with Waverly and keep going.<br />Found The Entail, not on Gutenberg, but through Google Books...strange.verbivorehttp://incurablelogophilia.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-46827694375485679882010-01-26T11:44:30.304-06:002010-01-26T11:44:30.304-06:00The best reason to read Waverley before Old Mortal...The best reason to read <i>Waverley</i> before <i>Old Mortality</i>, besides a chronological neurosis, is that you will then appreciate how Scott fixes some of the flaws of <i>Waverley</i> in the later novel.<br /><br />So, yeah, since <i>Old Mortality</i> and <i>The Heart of Midlothian</i> are maybe as good as Scott gets, start there.<br /><br /><i>all challenges should be run like yours</i><br /><br />Ha ha ha! Yes, oh yes. This idea is going to spread like wildfire, I'm sure.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-63052391035414890542010-01-26T06:18:55.766-06:002010-01-26T06:18:55.766-06:00You convinced me on Galt a long time ago so I'...You convinced me on Galt a long time ago so I'm signing on for The Entail. And I've never read Scott, which seems like a crime (atleast my Scottish born and bred father would say so!) so I'm adding The Tale of Old Mortality to the mix (unless you convince me to read Waverly first).<br /><br />and I think all challenges should be run like yoursverbivorehttp://incurablelogophilia.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-36844166366943539502010-01-23T19:36:05.351-06:002010-01-23T19:36:05.351-06:00it might be a while before I get to it
Good! Tha...<i>it might be a while before I get to it</i><br /><br />Good! Thanks! I do want to read <i>Marriage</i>, but two or three or four months from now sounds about right.<br /><br />I do like that people are unable to restrain themselves to one book. I'm only committing to one (each)! I feel that my work on the reading lists is paying off.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-4502048631380410942010-01-23T13:21:52.980-06:002010-01-23T13:21:52.980-06:00OK, I've downloaded Ferrier's Marriage fro...OK, I've downloaded Ferrier's <i>Marriage</i> from Project Gutenberg for my first choice--though with all the other things I'm reading (or supposed to be reading) in the next 2-3 months, it might be a while before I get to it. Next up I think I'll reread <i>The Heart of Midlothian</i>, since it keeps coming up in discussions of <i>Adam Bede</i> and it has been maybe 12 years since I last read it through. And then, <i>The Perpetual Curate</i>--because I've liked the other Oliphant novels I've read. Also, you should read her <i>Autobiography</i>. It's odd, but remarkable. The Broadview edition is good.Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47672710590485997942010-01-23T10:40:12.068-06:002010-01-23T10:40:12.068-06:00A little Sartor Resartus readalong, all right. By...A little <i>Sartor Resartus</i> readalong, all right. By the way, Brian, I've been enjoying the <a href="http://fivebranchtree.blogspot.com/2010/01/kangxi-emperors-southern-inspection.html" rel="nofollow">Louise Glück posts</a>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-51890569060485743762010-01-22T12:01:34.627-06:002010-01-22T12:01:34.627-06:00I've been meaning to read Sartor Resartus for ...I've been meaning to read Sartor Resartus for years.... now I will. Maybe more Carlyle as well.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11632328198420140293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-50233401545502108222010-01-22T10:29:06.930-06:002010-01-22T10:29:06.930-06:00Stefanie, Carlyle will definitely keep the brain i...Stefanie, Carlyle will definitely keep the brain in shape over Spring Break! <br /><br />litlove, thanks for that recommendation. It's just the sort of thing I'm likely to miss. There seem to be two versions of the Elizabeth Grant memoir floating around, the original version, which was an abridgement, and a much-expanded Canongate Classics edition. <i>Scotland's Books</i> says good things about her.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-28348667732127523972010-01-22T09:01:18.539-06:002010-01-22T09:01:18.539-06:00I'm loving all this. I had no idea there was s...I'm loving all this. I had no idea there was so much. I'll read Galt someday and Scott too, but since Carlyle made it fourth on your list and you do seem excited to read him again, I'm going to aim for taking him up the end of March between school quarters. A nice rest for my brain. Ha!Stefaniehttp://somanybooksblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-32464464975305340792010-01-22T02:14:35.518-06:002010-01-22T02:14:35.518-06:00I was reading over your challenge and thinking I d...I was reading over your challenge and thinking I didn't possess any book that would do for it, when it occurred to me that I was given for Christmas the memoirs of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, who wrote up her life from 1845-1854. I don't suppose it's litt-ra-chure in the same vein as Waverley, but it might do, perhaps?litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-9042605614137899552010-01-21T19:08:12.598-06:002010-01-21T19:08:12.598-06:00Someday I'll try Galt because of your recommen...Someday I'll try Galt because of your recommendations but I think I'm more likely, from this list, to tend toward Sir Walter Scott who is new to me.Rebecca Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06062252252301802298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-78481514867214270972010-01-21T15:02:56.328-06:002010-01-21T15:02:56.328-06:00Richard, which challenges cover The Provost? What...Richard, which challenges cover <i>The Provost</i>? Whatever they are, I'm all for them. I plan to read <i>The House with the Green Shutters</i> sometime, myself.<br /><br />LRK - thanks for the recommendation of the Allingham book, and the note about Ferrier. The one Edgeworth novel I have read (<i>Castle Rackrent</i>, of course) is pretty focused, but I know it's not typical Edgeworth.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-52483071723305833002010-01-21T13:17:09.871-06:002010-01-21T13:17:09.871-06:00Oh, I forgot - I'd still say Susan Ferrier (or...Oh, I forgot - I'd still say Susan Ferrier (or "Marriage" rather, as it is the only one I've read) is more like Maria Edgeworth than Jane Austen - she isn't quite as focused in her story-telling as JA.<br /><br />LRKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79220189312665447922010-01-21T13:14:59.734-06:002010-01-21T13:14:59.734-06:00If you are interested in Carlyle's "Remin...If you are interested in Carlyle's "Reminiscences" (now that I know of its existence - thank you! - I am), you might also be interested in William Allingham's "Diaries". He was a friend of Carlyle's (among other celebrities he also knew Lord Tennyson), and it has quite a lot of Carlyle-anecdotes - and since it is a diary and not memoir, they are all "fresh off the press", so to speak.<br /><br />LRKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-72087279834530497152010-01-21T12:42:05.534-06:002010-01-21T12:42:05.534-06:00I might read The Provost, because it also would fi...I might read The Provost, because it also would fill a couple of other challenges I'm in. I also was thinking of "The House With the Green Shutters."Richard LeComtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13986639064661051138noreply@blogger.com