An ideal library

Literary Critic has got hold of Henry Miller's list of his ideal library.

Miller compiled this list of greatest literary works for the book Pour une Bibliothèque Idéale, edited by Raymond Queneau.

Only one Brontë novel made its way into it. Which one is it?

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.

Henry Miller was not the only American writer to highlight Wuthering Heights. William Somerset Maugham also devoted a whole chapter to Emily's novel in his book Great novelists and their novels (1948). A new edition in Spanish appears these days (Diez grandes novelas y sus autores) and is reviewed by El País (Spain) and La Prensa (Argentina). If you are fluent in Spanish we recommend the last one, because it's almost entirely devoted to the chapter on Wuthering Heights.

The Times Online has an article on classical music and its appeal. To illustrate his point, Howard Goodall uses Jane Eyre - quite fittingly we think.

Just because a teenager doesn’t like Jane Eyre, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t like reading; Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman or Tolkien will do fine. Charlotte Brontë’s always there for later in life.

That's the great thing about Charlotte Brontë and the rest of the family - they are always there, whenever one chooses to discover them :)

And on a very different note, The Sun Chronicle has an article featuring Ray Tameo, a wildlife carver. The reson for this mention on this blog is not that he could have liked Bewick's engravings as much as the Brontës.

The artist also paints and has captured on canvas places of interest and classic homes, such as the old homestead from Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights."

We do wonder whether he knows about Bewick now...

It's always nice to post about visits to Haworth and the moors. Morning Glory in Sunday Afternoon Drive pots about her recent trip to Haworth with lots of pictures:

In West Yorkshire in England there is a charming village called Haworth. My husband and I had our first of two visits there 16 years ago when we decided to go to England for our 20th anniversary. Being a fan of "Wuthering Heights" and "Jane Eyre", both written by two of the Bronte sisters, we included a sightseeing tour of this area with my husband's brother, D, who lives in Manchester. We were not disappointed.

And finally a reminder that Elizabeth Gaskell died on a day like today in 1865. A good tribute would be reading something by her today, or simply this.

Categories: In the News, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Haworth