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12 books on BookJumpr.
Books by Rachel Cusk
Quotes from Rachel Cusk's books, and about them
A Life's Work on The Bad Mother : “James Hillman, ‘The Bad Mother’ (epigraph)”A Life's Work on War and Peace : “‘Natasha had married in the early spring of 1813,’ writes Tolstoy … at the end of War and Peace”A Life's Work on Anna Karenina : “Instead he wrote Anna Karenina, excavating the woman extant in the mother”A Life's Work on The House of Mirth : “Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel The House of Mirth asks the question of what a woman is if she is not a wife, a mother”A Life's Work on The Secret Garden : “Poor Mary Lennox, child-heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.”A Life's Work on The Great Fortune : “When the baby sleeps I intermittently read Olivia Manning’s The Great Fortune”A Life's Work on Madame Bovary : “In Madame Bovary, Emma Bovary sends her baby daughter to live with a wet-nurse”A Life's Work on Frost at Midnight : “I read again Coleridge’s poem ‘Frost At Midnight’.”A Life's Work on Jane Eyre : “In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, the child Jane’s cruel Aunt Reed locks her in the Red Room”A Life's Work on The Rainbow : “‘From the first’, writes D. H. Lawrence in The Rainbow, the baby stirred in the young father a deep, strong emotion”
Authors Rachel Cusk's books mention
D. H. Lawrence (7): A Life's Work mentions The Rainbow ; Coventry mentions The Rainbow , Women in Love ; Outline mentions Sons and Lovers , The Wintry Peacock ; The Last Supper mentions Sea and Sardinia , The Rainbow William Shakespeare (6): Saving Agnes mentions Julius Caesar ; The Last Supper mentions Hamlet , Othello , Antony and Cleopatra , Macbeth , Twelfth Night Edith Wharton (4): A Life's Work mentions The House of Mirth ; Coventry mentions The Age of Innocence , The Custom of the Country , The House of Mirth Natalia Ginzburg (4): Coventry mentions Family Lexicon , The Little Virtues , Winter in the Abruzzi , My Vocation Dante Alighieri (3): Coventry mentions The Divine Comedy ; Kudos mentions The Divine Comedy ; The Last Supper mentions The Divine Comedy F. Scott Fitzgerald (3): Coventry mentions The Beautiful and Damned , The Great Gatsby , Tender Is the Night Kazuo Ishiguro (3): Coventry mentions Never Let Me Go , The Unconsoled , The Remains of the Day Leo Tolstoy (3): A Life's Work mentions War and Peace , Anna Karenina ; Coventry mentions War and Peace Sophocles (3): Aftermath mentions Antigone , Oedipus Rex ; Coventry mentions Philoctetes Aeschylus (2): Aftermath mentions The Oresteia ; Coventry mentions The Oresteia Albert Camus (2): Coventry mentions The Plague , The Fall Anton Chekhov (2): Coventry mentions Three Sisters ; In the Fold mentions The Cherry Orchard Francis of Assisi (2): Coventry mentions Canticle of the Creatures ; The Last Supper mentions Canticle of the Creatures Françoise Sagan (2): Coventry mentions Bonjour Tristesse , A Certain Smile Giorgio Vasari (2): Coventry mentions The Lives of the Artists ; The Last Supper mentions The Lives of the Artists Marcel Proust (2): A Life's Work mentions Swann's Way ; Coventry mentions Swann's Way Olivia Manning (2): A Life's Work mentions The Great Fortune ; Coventry mentions The Balkan Trilogy Seuss (2): A Life's Work mentions Dr. Seuss's ABC ; The Last Supper mentions The Cat in the Hat Annie Hawes (1): The Last Supper mentions Extra Virgin Anonymous (1): Outline mentions Encyclopaedia Britannica
Benjamin Spock (1): A Life's Work mentions Baby and Child Care Charlotte Brontë (1): A Life's Work mentions Jane Eyre Cormac McCarthy (1): Coventry mentions The Road Doris Lessing (1): Coventry mentions To Room Nineteen Elizabeth Gilbert (1): Coventry mentions Eat, Pray, Love Emily Bronte (1): Outline mentions Wuthering Heights Euripides (1): Coventry mentions Medea Evelyn Waugh (1): A Life's Work mentions Brideshead Revisited Frances Hodgson Burnett (1): A Life's Work mentions The Secret Garden Gustave Flaubert (1): A Life's Work mentions Madame Bovary Helen Fielding (1): Coventry mentions Bridget Jones's Diary Herman Melville (1): Coventry mentions Moby-Dick Homer (1): Outline mentions The Odyssey Imogen Edwards-Jones (1): The Last Supper mentions Tuscany for Beginners James George Frazer (1): Coventry mentions The Golden Bough James Hillman (1): A Life's Work mentions The Bad Mother James Joyce (1): Coventry mentions Ulysses Jane Austen (1): Coventry mentions Pride and Prejudice Penelope Leach (1): A Life's Work mentions Your Baby and Child Richard Ferber (1): A Life's Work mentions Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1): A Life's Work mentions Frost at Midnight Simone de Beauvoir (1): Coventry mentions The Second Sex Stendhal (1): The Last Supper mentions The Charterhouse of Parma Stevie Smith (1): Kudos mentions She Got Up and Went Away T. S. Eliot (1): Kudos mentions Four Quartets Virgil (1): The Country Life mentions The Georgics Virginia Woolf (1): Coventry mentions A Room of One's Own William Blake (1): The Last Supper mentions The Sick Rose