Literati.

Ok, this is the first posting on my blog. My intention is to write reviews of literature - mainly modernism, some obscure - but also some contemporary and 'forgotten' books as well. Just to get started though, I have decided to begin with a list of my favourite books, in no particular order:

1. Beyond the Glass, by Antonia White.
2. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster.
3. Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson.
4. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert.
5. The Sea House, by Esther Freud.
6. Jacob's Room, by Virginia Woolf.
7. Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf.
8. The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen.
9. Zofloya, by Charlotte Dacre.
10.The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
11.The Collector, by John Fowles.
12.A Life's Work, by Rachel Cusk.
13.Exposure, by Kathryn Harrison.
14.Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame.
15.Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.
16.Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh.
17.The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath.
18.The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene.
19.The Aspern Papers, by Henry James.
20.Collected Stories, by Carol Shields.


And favourite plays:
1. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (quite simply the best play ever written in the English language)
2. Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen.
3. A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen.
4. The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov.
5. An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde.

It is unlikely I will be writing here every day, but it is my earnest intention to post as often as I can. Watch this space for the first review of the Literature Advocate!