“Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.” FeelsFormValuesNovelBalanceConcernedFundamentalsWineDryNeverthelessSentimentalGrocers Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.” IfsShouldReasonPlayFallNovelDrinkWineFalling In LoveDinnerReason WhyNo ReasonStatisticsLeisureGood WineInfluenza Author:Jerome K. Jerome
“I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.” KindCoursesFantasyNovelStandardsWineWestMythologyRemarkablePalmsStandard English Author:William Golding