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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Book - The Hobbit (part 2)

Book - The hobbit
Score : 10/10* 

 The adventures of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit with much promise, on a quest to retrieve gold from a dragon, will face, alone or with a company of dwarves, many challenges and dangers.

The only downside of this wonderful book is that JRR didn't include female characters apart for some creatures... otherwise, his talent at story telling is tremendous and you don't want to put this book down, ever.

Initially intended as a children's novel, The Hobbit turned out as one for the entire family, but also studied by many scholars around the world, along its sequel LOTR. The narrative is one of the most inventive, especially for its days (1930's!) I could tell that Tolkien chose very carefully his wording, his sentences, and I learned to appreciate the poetic language he uses to describe actions, landscapes, or just about anything, really.

Alan Lee's illustrations accompany the story for a little visual relaxation - and you see why he'd get to work on the 6 movies derived from The Hobbit and LOTR - I think he really pinpointed what can be envisioned from Tolkien's writing, thus revealing a tremendous talent.
 
Score 10 for story telling, 9 for forgetting women exist?




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