"Heart of Darkness" Review

"Heart of Darkness" Review

By 

James Topham

Updated on July 23, 2018

Written by Joseph Conrad on the eve of the century that would see the end of the empire that it so significantly critiques, Heart of Darkness is both an adventure story set at the center of a continent represented through breathtaking  poetry, as well as a study of the inevitable corruption that comes from the exercise of tyrannical power.

Book Review 050 / Virginia Woolf / 'Mrs. Dalloway' Review

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virgina Woolf

1925

The 100 best novels written in English / The full list

Book Review

The 100 best novels / No 50 / Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

Digested classics / Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

by James Topham
Updated March 17, 2017

Mrs. Dalloway is a complex and compelling modernist novel by Virginia Woolf. It is a wonderful study of its principal characters. The novel enters into the consciousness of the people it takes as it subjects, creating a powerful, psychologically authentic effect. Although quite rightly numbered amongst the most famed modernist writers--such as Proust, ​​Joyce, and ​Lawrence--Woolf is often considered to be a much gentler artist, lacking the darkness of the male contingent of the movement.