Classical Reverie

Category: Novel

  • Master and Margarita

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    “Manuscripts don’t burn.” (P.323) “The man who called himself the master worked feverishly at his novel and the book cast its spell over the unknown woman” (p.157) ‘Think of what it’s like being in my position. Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man down-stairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that,…

  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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    “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” “Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.” Synopsis and Recommendation Written by Ayn Rand in 1943, “The Fountainhead” follows the architect Howard Roark through his journey as…

  • Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley

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    “. . .when you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” – Professor Roger Mifflin…