10-27-2009, 02:29 PM
Grieve Wrote:I've seen the BBC adaptations of Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians, if that counts. I think Portrait of a Lady is one of those books I started reading and never finished, which also includes Ulysses (which I started reading on the plane as I emigrated to the US) and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. I'm going to have to dig those out one of these days...
Check http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page if you can't find them. You can legally download the text to a lot of these there.
"Hamilton is really a Colossus to the anti republican party. Without numbers he is an host within himself. They have got themselves into a defile where they might be finished but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them. We have had only middling performances to oppose to him. In truth when he comes forward there is nobody but yourself who can meet him. His adversaries having begun the attack he has the advantage of answering them and remains unanswered himself. For God's sake take up your pen and give a fundamental reply to Curtius and Camillas" - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison