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Article: BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT By Elizabeth Smart
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2008
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BOOK OF A LIFETIME
In choosing a book that has shaped and changed my life, I have
dithered between classics, none of them contemporary and all of them
novels. For me the significant book will always be a novel, although
I do have a soft spot for The SAS Survival Guide, and particularly
the section on camp craft.
But people and their story, whether epic as in War and Peace or
up close like Mrs Dalloway, are what grabs me. I have been moved,
exhilarated and devastated by Crime and Punishment, American
Pastoral, Anna Karenina, Persuasion and Madame Bovary. The
characters and their stories have stayed to walk through life with
me.
There can never be one book, but Elizabeth Smart's novel By Grand ...
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