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Book excerpts: The Lake District, An Anthology compiled by Norman Nicholson

The Lake District An anthology compiled by Norman Nicholson. Penguin Books. 1977.   This delightful composition of prose, poetry and essays, some of them in the Cumbrian dialect,  contains such nuggets  as the ones reproduced below.  Gentleman in a hurry It was customary, I am told, to dash by them (i.e. the Lakes) with an…

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Book review: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Eligible: A Biased Review Eligible  is  American author Curtis Sittenfeld’s re-telling of that much loved classic  Pride and Prejudice. To  take on a work, any work of Jane Austen (even when commissioned to do so, as part of the Austen  Project) is one brave thing to do, and inevitably, for every two people who liked   Eligible, four…

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