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Book World: Our readers recommend light classic novels to lift your holiday spirits Stephanie Merry, The Washington Post Dec. 22, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 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 ta...

Book World: Books from another era can act as an escape Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Dec. 16, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 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 take...