Sam Gilpin Boeken

Set during the French Revolution, the two cities in question are Paris and London and the tale is one of the tragedies that take place therein.

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. In this, her most autobiographical novel, Virginia Woolf captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting complexity of adult relationships. From an acute awareness of transcience, she creates an enduring work of art.

The author's famous work on his time living on the shores of Walden Pond and ruminating on nature, life, and human existence.