Stay Home | Read Books | Eat Cake
Stay Home | Read Books | Eat Cake
Another book in my classics reading exercise, amazingly enough a lot of the books I’ve read whilst doing this are from Vintage Books. Not only are the editions well-translated or adapted they are beautiful having wonderful covers. Invisible Cities is a fictional set of conversations between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, where Marco Polo is …
In 2018 (and still continuing now) I had set myself a challenge to read more books that were seen as classics (or by authors who are seen as authors to read) and more books that had been translated into English. The Book of Imaginary Beings fits nicely into both categories. Ostensibly a short survey of …