Items30The creator’s order
  1. 1The Shipping News (1993)The Shipping News (1993) 7.9/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1993Newfoundland's coast determines how people work, travel, tell stories and endure the weather. Quoyle's arrival with his daughters brings a damaged family into a community whose knowledge is practical as well as picturesque. Proulx makes the newspaper, the harbour and the exposed family house part…0
  2. 2NW (2012)NW (2012) 6.9/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2012The distances between a childhood council estate, a private house and a public park measure more than success. Smith follows four north-west Londoners whose routes through the same city reveal unequal access and persistent attachments. Different narrative forms make the urban experience restless…0
  3. 3The Hungry Tide (2004)The Hungry Tide (2004) 8.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2004Tides repeatedly erase the apparent boundary between land and water in the Sundarbans. A visiting dolphin researcher, a translator and a local fisherman bring different forms of knowledge to that unstable ground. Ghosh connects ecological richness to the difficult terms on which people make a…0
  4. 4Housekeeping (1980)Housekeeping (1980) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1980The lake beside Fingerbone holds family history as well as the reflection of the town. For Ruth and Lucille, the house and their aunt Sylvie's unsettled habits make shelter an increasingly complicated idea. Robinson's descriptions attend to water, light and the porous boundary between domestic…0
  5. 5Mrs. Dalloway (1925)Mrs. Dalloway (1925) 7.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1925Walks through London, the sound of clocks and a series of passing impressions connect lives that remain socially separate. Woolf lets a June day carry the pressure of class, memory and the aftermath of war. The city feels shared without being experienced on equal terms by Clarissa Dalloway and the…0
  6. 6The City & The City (2009)The City & The City (2009) 7.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2009Two cities occupy overlapping physical ground, while their inhabitants learn to disregard what belongs to the other jurisdiction. A murder investigation makes this arrangement both a practical obstacle and an unnerving account of trained perception. Miéville gives anyone interested in urban space a…0
  7. 7Wuthering heights (1848)Wuthering heights (1848)Published 1 Jan 1848The exposed moor and the very different households at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange give attachment a physical geography. Brontë connects movement between those houses to class, possession and inherited grievance. Weather and distance matter, but so does who controls the property. The…0
  8. 8The Return of the Native (1878)The Return of the Native (1878) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1878Egdon Heath is a working environment, a route network and a place that different characters want to escape or recover. Hardy makes those incompatible desires harder to dismiss by giving the heath such a sustained presence. Its inhabitants read paths, lights and weather through local experience. The…0
  9. 9Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) 8.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1937Janie's journey through Florida includes a town's public life and the labouring landscape of the Everglades. Hurston makes the porch, the store, the fields and the storm bear different kinds of power. Community is audible in the language as well as visible in the setting. For a reader interested in…0
  10. 10My Antonia (1930)My Antonia (1930)Published 1 Jan 1930Jim Burden remembers Ántonia through Nebraska's fields, seasons and changing settlements. The movement between farm work and town life gives the prairie a social history rather than a single mood of spaciousness. Cather's language makes physical experience unusually vivid, while Jim's retrospective…0