Grist to the Mill

29 January, 2006

A Literary 'Yeah But No But'

Madame Bovary not Anna Karenina
Nabokov or Gogol not Bulgakov
John Donne not Andrew Marvell
TS Eliot not Ezra Pound
Emma not Pride and Prejudice
Swift not Pope
Mrs Dalloway not To the Lighthouse
Raymond Carver not Ernest Hemmingway
Hamlet not Lear, Othello, or Macbeth
King James version not New International version
The New Statesman not The Spectator
The Observer not The Sunday Times
The Mayor of Casterbidge not Jude the Obscure
A Passage to India not A Room with a View
The God of Small Things not Atonement
Adrian Mole not Bridget Jones
The Beano not Dandy, Whizzer or Chips
Large print Westerns not Catherine Cookson
Any diary not The Friendship Book of Frances Gay
Ted Huges AND Sylvia Plath

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