Definitely very different sets of fairy tales. I started reading F. R. Kreutzwald's Old Estonian Fairy Tales, took a break in the middle to read Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates, and then finished the Kreutzwald. I decided to wait and do them together. I'm not sure how … Continue reading Two Books of Fairy Tales
A Tale of Two Cities
Obvious courtesy: spoilers. First thing is just that Dickens is a beautiful writer. Older English writers really did know what they were doing. It would be hard to read for a learner of English. I met a Spanish girl last weekend who said she had tried to read Virginia Woolf and been discouraged. I did … Continue reading A Tale of Two Cities
