The After House
Fiction1914
“A yacht should be a pleasant workplace. Rinehart makes the cramped social arrangements feel wrong very quickly.”
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Fiction1914
“A yacht should be a pleasant workplace. Rinehart makes the cramped social arrangements feel wrong very quickly.”
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Fiction1924
“Anne being impatient for adventure makes the opening delightful. She's not waiting to be appointed someone's assistant.”
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“Griffin's practical problems are more interesting than the power fantasy. Being invisible doesn't make ordinary life easy.”
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Fiction1906
“The comet changes the story's social argument as much as its atmosphere. Wells isn't only interested in an object in the sky.”
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Fiction1924
“D-503 writing everything down to celebrate his society is a brilliant way to show it coming apart for him.”
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Fiction1865
“The gun-club members treating a moon shot like an engineering problem is wonderfully deadpan.”
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Fiction1867
“The descent is better than the destination. Every practical difficulty makes the next impossible thing feel a little more believable.”
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1800
“Carton's weariness gives the grand historical plot a human scale. The courtroom and street scenes are wonderfully crowded.”
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Fiction1910
“The argument about who gets a home is much sharper than the country-house title suggests.”
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