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William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

April 30, 2026April 20, 2026 by Trevor Berrett

I had it on my shelf for nearly a quarter century, but I finally read Willam Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury . . . and I loved it.

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Henry Green: Living

August 4, 2017May 18, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Henry Greens second novel, 1929’s Living, a supreme novel of high British modernism.

Categories Book Reviews, Henry Green Tags 1920s, 1929, NYRB Classics 4 Comments

Vicki Baum: Grand Hotel

June 17, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel, translated from the German by Basil Creighton, with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Vicki Baum Tags 1920s, 1929, German 3 Comments
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