The Fourth Pig was originally published in the 1930s and is a reflection of the tense economic/political climate of the late interwar period. Although I had never heard of her, Mitchison’s writing was well known and popular in the 1930s. Her personal history as related by Marina Warner in the introduction marks her as an unusual woman for her time and quite outspoken in her political views. Given her leftist leanings, it is perhaps not surprising that this work in particular faded into obscurity after […]
. . . And I feel fine. . . .
I found this book through a book I read last Cannonball – Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which I didn’t really like. BUT – at the end were a few bonus chapters of another book written by the same author. I was totally sucked in, and bought the whole thing. Hank Palace always wanted to be a police detective, and he recently achieved his goal, which is fantastic. That’s really the only good thing, though. Because a huge asteroid is heading this way. It is […]
Some places are still fighting the Civil War
Horwitz asks penetrating questions without being confrontational, and is honest about his place as a Northerner and a passionate student of the conflict itself.