Welcome to a small world in which “a world in which everything was fierce and piercing, everything charged with strange emotions, clothed with extraordinary mysteries, and in which I myself seemed to exist only as an inner core of palpitating fire.” Isn’t that a place you want to go? I happened across this slim novella by chance in the classics section of a nearby indie bookstore. The author’s surname caught my eye, and I did a quick search to see if she was related to […]
“She had lifted me to her star…”
Olivia by Dorothy Strachey