Book World: Our readers recommend light classic novels to lift your holiday spirits
Stephanie Merry, The Washington Post
Dec. 22, 2020
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Love in a Cold Climate/The Enchanted April/Diary of a Provincial LadyVintage/New York Review Books Classics/Macmillan Collector s Library - handout
Critic Michael Dirda has found the antidote to the winter blues, and it should surprise none of his readers to learn the cure involves cracking open a book from a time gone by. In a last-ditch effort to regain what is usually called the holiday spirit, he wrote in a recent column, I ve taken to fleeing the present, at least now and then, and reading my way into another era.
My plan for fending off the holiday blues? Escaping into light fiction from another era washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Book World: Books from another era can act as an escape
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki/The Young Visiters/Queen Lucia & Miss MappWordsworth Editions Ltd/Chatto & Windus/Vintage - handout
Like many people, I ve spent much of the past four years suffering from mild but persistent depression, but the recent weeks of post-election chaos, shamefully incited by a spiteful crybaby and his toadies, have been almost more than I can stomach. In a last-ditch effort to regain what is usually called the holiday spirit, I ve taken to fleeing the present, at least now and then, and reading my way into another era.