![]() ![]() I liked all of that – a lot actually – it was only in the end that it sort of dropped off a bit. ![]() As someone who never spent time with literature before it’s all a bit of a brave new world and he enjoys seeing what he missed. ![]() Over the course of the months that follow he not only learns more about his ancestor but the literary greats themselves. A retired bank clerk finds a cache of letters from his great great grandfather from Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, etc and enters into an email correspondence with Christie’s about selling them. “…in that it’s an epistolary novel about books but it’s much more informative. You can blame this list on Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray, who recently compared John Hall’s Correspondence to 84, Charing Cross Road: The old-fashioned kind, with paper and stamps and fountain pens, even scratchy-nibbed ones. ![]()
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