Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, is one of my favorite literary heroines. This is the 7th book in the series, which is set in England in the years following the Great War. Most of Maisie's investigations relate in one way or another to the war, and the stories beautifully illustrate the great, wounding effects that war had on all the British people. I haven't enjoyed all books in the series equally, but this one was definitely one of the best.
(On a side note, I have noticed that I rarely read old books. I think in the interest of rounding out my 52, I need to include some older classics. Any suggestions? I'm thinking pre-1950.)
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Here are a few of my favorites; they're all fiction.
* The Confidence Man, by Herman Melville (1857)
* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)
* King Lear, by William Shakespeare (1603)
* The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas (1845)
* Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand (1897)
* The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers (1895)
* The Odyssey, by Homer (~800 B.C.)
* The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene (1940)
* I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov (1950, right on the border)
* One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962, perhaps too new)
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