Babbling Books

The Return of the Native  by Thomas Hardy was first published in 1878. The story takes place in the fictional Egdon Heath, a picturesque ar...

Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution  by Kathleen DuVal was first published in 2016. The author is a professor o...

My general commentary on Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now is  here . About half of Trollope’s important characters are women....

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope was first published in 1875. It is a stand-alone novel in that it was not part of Trollope’s two ...

Gibraltar, The Greatest Siege in British History  by Roy Adkins and Lesly Adkins was first published this year. The subject is the Spanish ...

Book series have been around for a long time. It is safe to say that they have never been more popular than they are today.  Lately, I have...

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe , though set in the seventeenth century, was first published in 1719. It is the story of the title character...